Individual Activity: FILL IN THE BOX To know how much you have learned from the discussion about the paintings of the Early Age, fill in the box with the characteristics and functions that would best describe the painting in every era/period.
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PERIOD / ERA
ANCIENT ART
Pre-historic:
Characteristics:
A parietal art that involves pigments on the walls floors
or ceiling of ancient rock shelters.
Mostly monochrome
Functions:
A sort of imagery to tell stories and capture what they have experienced or saw.
Egyptian:
Characteristics:
Highly stylized and symbolic.
Symbolism meant order
shown through the pharaoh's regalia and through the use of certain colors
Hieroglyphs.
Functions:
To present the power and leadership of the pharaohs or the gods.
To show the hierarchy of the gods and kings.
CLASSICAL ART
Greek
Characteristics:
Emphasis on unusual beauty, or moments of high and noble drama.
Focuses on aestheticism that commends on the ideal beauty.
Functions:
To visualize, highlight and commemorate humans and gods especially those who have great beauty and fame in wars.
Roman
Characteristics:
Art forms are extensive such as vase art, mosaic
fine metalwork and jewelry
Employed mathematical concepts.
A few elements are borrowed from the Greeks such as refined sculpting of a man’s body.
Functions:
Decorative purposes
to illustrate wealth
to construct functioning architecture.
MEDIEVAL ART
Byzantine
Characteristics:
Stylized imagery and has more abstract aesthetics than naturalized ones
Mostly are two-dimensional
It can be mosaic.
Functions:
To illustrate the divine as the Medieval Era is the glorious time for Christianity
to beautify a building.
Romanesque:
Characteristics:
It combines features of ancient roman byzantine buildings
Mostly observed in the architecture
In paintings, its intensity relies on the colorsr red, yellow, orange, and blue.
Paintings are used for stained glass paintings for the churches.
Functions:
just like the Byzantine, it is used as decors for the church as a symbol of glorifying God and Jesus Christ.
Gothic:
Characteristics:
Emphasis on dark tones to have the appeal of mystery and suspense. Most settings in paintings are in a castle.
Conveys supernatural powers, omens.
Depicts distress and overwrought emotion
Symbolism on devil and demons
Functions:
Providing a visual representation of God and mostly on biblical themes that do not only denote heaven but also suffering in hell.
References:
Classical arts: brainly.ph/question/3396115
Ancient arts: brainly.ph/question/3980148
brainly.ph/question/3025166
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