Art History
Some things you should know, when studying art history:
First of all, art historians have attempted to clearly organize, label, and differentiate a history of art that is not at all easy to organize, label, nor differentiate. Many of these so-called movements and "schools" of art mixed with each other, borrowing certain ideas and rejecting others. Many of them even ran simultaneously, in different parts of the world. Furthermore, many artists dabbled here and there with different movements, so that some works clearly fit in neat little rows, while other artists and their works do not. One unfortunate tendency in art history is to ignore and snub these outliers.
Second, once a way or style of art making has been established - it continues. The process is unorganized - anyone, anywhere might try to paint in that style, perhaps for an entire lifetime, perhaps just as one experiment, or a homework assignment. But, no style or movement ever really ends. There are still people painting religious icons of the sort started by the Byzantine empire. There are still people painting cubist pictures, impressionist pictures, rococo style pictures, and so on. Many artists even make a career of it. When we say a movement only lasted a certain amount of time, what we really mean is, after that time, it no longer felt historically relevant or noteworthy. It's a snub to those who carry on that tradition. But, if you look around, you can still find excellent artists who continue every tradition, movement and style ever invented.
In this series of lessons I will try to highlight some artists and outliers that are usually snubbed.
Click these links to access my lessons on the following art periods:
Ancient Civilizations:
5. The Art of Ancient Rome & Early Christianity
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
8. The Art of the Early Italian Renaissance
9. The Art of the High Italian Renaissance & Mannerism
10. The Art of the Northern Renaissance
The Age of Academic Art:
19. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
20. The Aesthetic Movement - Art For Art's Sake
22. The History of Illustration
The Modern Age
23. The Early History of Photography
25. American & Canadian Impressionism
26. Post Impressionism, Neo Impressionism, & Pointillism
27. Pictorialism (Photo History)
32. Primitivism (Naïve & Folk Art)
35. Cubism (Orphism, Purism, Section d'Or)
40. (Russian) Constructivism & Productivism
41. (German) Bauhaus, the “International Style”
44. Straight (Pure) Photography
45. (American) Abstract Expressionsim & Color Field
The Post Modern Age
53. Appropriation Art vs. Art Appropriation
54. The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
55. Photorealism & Hyperrealism
Non-Western Art
57. Islamic Art
Art of Africa
Art of Asia
The Art of China - Architecture
The Art of China - Decorative Arts
The Art of Japan
The Art of India
Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas
Art of the Maya
Art of the Nasca
Art of the Wari
Art of the Aztec
Art of the Inca
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