AP ART REVIEW

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AP ART REVIEW
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Early Renaissance

• Perspective
• Anatomy
• Classical (Greek and Roman)
• Mythology
• Frescoes
• Portraits

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La Primavera by Botticelli
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Brunelleschis Dome
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Donatellos David
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Giotto
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Trinity by Masaccio
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High Renaissance (South)

• Harmony and Balance
• High level of technical competence
• Idealized human figures
• Contrapposto twisting the human figures
• Chiaroscuro shading
• Paid for my rich merchants and the Pope/Church

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Michelangelo
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Last Judgement
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Pieta
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Sistine
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Raphael
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Sistine Madonna
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Cowper Madonna
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School of Athens
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Leonardo da Vinci
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La Belle
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Madonna w/ Pomegrant
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The Last Supper
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Mona Lisa
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Titian and Vasari
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The Northern Renaissance

• Oil paint begins here
• Great attention to detail
• Mostly religious themes
• Symbolic use of items
• Portraits women w/ small breasts large
  tummies.covered hair.
• Woodcut Prints

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Holbein the Elder..
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Holbein the Younger
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Jan van Eyck
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Durer
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Mannerism

• Twisting figures
• Elongated bodies or hands
• Stronger colors..less shading
• More nudes.some naughty

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El Greco
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Il Parmigiano
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Baroque

• 17th Century
• Extreme Realism
• Often inspired by the Catholic Church
• Dramatic movements
• Intense light and color
• Over the top!

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Rembrandt..himself
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More Rembrandt
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Peter Paul Rubens
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Hals
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CARAVAGGIO
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Rococo

• Reaction against Baroque
• Light colors w/ white and sliver
• Old Testament or ancient history topics
• S or C curves

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No Big Names
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Just some examples
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Neoclassicism

• New Classical!
• Inspired by classical Greece and Rome
• Paris Salon!
• Art that stressed rational rules
• A sense of order
• Colors clear and bright
• Backgrounds also classical

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David (French)
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David.Marat in Tub!
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18th Century Portrait

• Sometimes ½ length or full length
• Pose, gesture and setting give the status of the
  sitter.
• Usually important people

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Reynolds
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Stuart
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18th Century Landscapes

• Started with estates of major landowners
• Often in watercolor
• Often just for their own pleasurehobby

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Gainsborough
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Still Life.like DEAD!
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Or Fruit!
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18th Century Narratives

• Made fun of people at different levels of society
• Often in contrasting pairs
• Mostly prints

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Beer Street
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Gin Lane
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Romanticism

• Feelings are more important than logic
• Reaction against Enlightenment
• Heros or Medieval History .often the topic
• Nature!

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Delacroix
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Goya
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Constable
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Turner
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Cubism

• Modern movement that focused on conceptual
  painting
• Take an object apart and put it back on different
  geometric planes

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Picasso
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Picasso Guernica
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Max Weber
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Dada..not Mama!
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Another Max Ernst.
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Bauhaus

• German mixture of fine arts and crafts
• Mostly architecture
• Industrial design
• FUNCTION!
• Lacking ornamentation
• 1919-1933
• Hitler WASNT a fan..

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Building in Germany
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Another.
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Surrealism

• Influenced by Freud
• Dream-based art
• Common themes fears, anxieties, sex, violence,
  death, war, etc..

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Paul Klee
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Marc Chagall
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Renee Magritte
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Salvador Dali
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Persistence of Memory