Blog #8 -- 20th century Art

For me, this era is just the continuation of the modern art.
This period is more advanced than modern art and showed a lot of improvements and developments.
20th century art has evolved greatly specially in fields of photography.
But the rise of photography affected the portrait painting industry because photographers offers cheaper rates and faster outputs.







The main idea or style used in this period is more of
expressionism pertaining to abstractionism.
This period for me has the best application of their skills because of the use of modern technology and advanced researches. But of course the early art forms are still the strong foundation behind this very successful period.

Blog#7 -- The start of something new

First, what is modern art?

Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. -
-wikipedia.org


Okay, so for me, modern art is the start of something new and extraordinary.
This period started all the modernization and improvements in art history. 


Artists in this period also started to explore new techniques and approach to art. 
This new style of art has a lot of styles used such as expressionism, impressionism and abstractionism.

This is where photography started and slowly became known into the art industry. This is the birth of a more creative artists who adopted the basics from the first artists and developed their own approach.

Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism. -- Wikipedia.org

An example of the modern artworks..

abstract paintings 

Blog #6 -- arts beyond the west

This topic is the ultimate overview of the past blogs. In arts beyond the west, many cultures and styles have emerged in different parts of the world from Asia to America.

I have learned that their styles and characteristics were similar to each other. For example, in Asia such as Japan, Korea, China and India, they are very traditional in terms of their subject matter.
They all present their gods through paintings and sculptures.

While in the American side, from Africa to the Pacific and the North America, they usually make masks and sculptures than paintings, they all possess the "hunting" characteristic with their artwork, they used naturalism because their life and events are shown in their artworks.

It influenced us Filipinos a lot, we have statues of our saints, we also portray them through different art forms.
Many painters also paint the daily lives of Filipinos.

So for me, arts beyond the west is the collaboration of the different art forms from the whole world.

Blog #5 -- The baroque Period

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. 


It is a French transliteration of the Portuguese phrase "pérola barroca", which means "irregular pearl", and natural pearls that deviate from the usual, regular forms so they do not have an axis of rotation are known as "baroque pearls".




I personally think that baroque period has the most powerful artworks because it shows motion, tension, details, grandeur and beauty.

Like for example, a simple sculpture of a man in a fight, in baroque sculpture, it is very detailed until to the smallest parts of it. We can actually see the muscles of a man or simply how the wind blew the dress. Take note that it is on a sculpture! how difficult is that to do?! 

Baroque period is somewhat like an extension of the renaissance period where in they just improved it and make use of other subject matter. but the styles are similar.

In this period, they have used 2 kinds of style.

1. Naturalism. 

-it is naturalism because it portrays the different activities or daily events happening around us.It shows life.

2. Classicism

-because of the use of the techniques during the renaissance period such as the chiaroscuro and other styles found in the renaissance era. It also shows elegance and beauty.

Blog #4-- RENAISSANCE PERIOD

RENAISSANCE means "rebirth"


It is called rebirth because in this period, different styles of art are used once again, like naturalism, expressionism, post- expressionism and many more. In the previous era which is the Christian Art which portrays religious based concepts and styles.

Many artists boomed in the renaissance period, some of them are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio and Michaelangelo Bounarroti. Their artworks are very popular during this era because people are so excited to see artworks that portrays realism and naturalism.

In this period, we witnessed a revival of classical themes in art and literature, a return to the realistic depiction of nature through keen observation, and the revitalization of the Greek Philosophy of humanism, in which human dignity, ideas, and capabilities are of central importance.

For me, art in this era has the most number of great artists.
The famous Mona Lisa always reminds me of the Renaissance period, it has been one of the trade mark of this period although the identity of the lady on the painting has not yet been determined with such evidence.
Leonardo da Vinci might really leave it a mystery so that no matter how many decades may pass, people will not stop admiring his Mona Lisa. 

Blog #3 -- CHRISTIAN ART

I have learned a lot from this period. I have also seen the different architectural designs of many famous churches around the globe. As the time passes by, the design and structure of the churches also evolve to a much better one. 

This period showed a lot of Christianity and how Christians adopt the culture when Constantine banned Christianity. They have showed strong faith in God by building underground graves and held underground mass. They have done everything they could to save Christianity and when Constantine finally converted as a Christian, they built extravagant churches that would mean they want the whole world to know that they were still existing and they built it to spread the Christianity to the whole world.

The structures of the churches also shows their faith. They have painted biblical people on the walls and ceilings to make the people see them.

Blog #2-- Every sculpture has a story

“The conquered became the conquerors, and the conquerors became the conquered.”

when the Romans conquered Greeks, Greeks conquered Romans by influencing their culture

.they both have the same set of gods and godesses. It also shows in their art because they almost

have the same kind of ways on how to represent their art.

The story behind every sculpture is a mystery but some studies says that some of the sculptures 

really depict the true image of the gods. 

The kind of art they used in this period is idealism. Because they create a human-like structures 

make it as realistic as possible.

This era made me think that the gods and godesses where very beautiful, like perfect. After 

knowing the story,  I really wanna see the images of their gods and wondering how did they ever 

made such beautiful sculptures without even a pattern to get it from? And why is that the gods and 

godesses made us all believe that they are the most beautiful creations in the world? like they were 

the standard of being the perfect faces and body.

It's pretty amazing that even in the early times, people were already aware of having a "god" 

and worship them as if they were really the reason behind their success in life.

For me, Greek and Roman art is just the same. They both have a very beautiful bond that reflected through their artworks and the culture itself'.