Due Tuesday Nov 24
You have been randomly assigned a period in art history to research and become an
expert on. We will continue our “Important Unit” once classes resume.
Your job is to create an A3 poster to teach others about the highlights and most
important points in art from that time. You must include the dates and name of the
period at the top of your poster. Your poster should include, key aspects of art from
that time, images done by artists of that time, what media were used, influences and
what else was happening at that time. For each of you I have included some artists
and key points to help you get started.
Make your posters both informative and visually pleasing. You have more than a
week to work on it so please put in time and care. These will be both presented and
displayed for everyone so make something you can be proud of. Be Creative and
have fun with them. Please see the grading rubric, you will be graded on criterion A
and D.
PERIODS
35,000-10,000 BC- Prehistoric Matthias
Key points; Cave art, Africa, made from charcoal and dirt, images of animals and
people, paintings and sculpture
Art pieces; Hall of bulls Lascaux, Venus of Willendorf
3100-1800 BC- Egyptian Anudari
Key points; Religious, afterlife, valuable materials, royalty, use of papyrus
Art pieces; pyramids, Standard of Ur, Death mask of Tutankhamen
1200- BC- 400 Ancient Mesoamerica- Khristian
Key points; Astec, Maya, pyramids, religious, symbolic, stone carvings, sculpture,
murals, masks, human sacrifice
Art pieces; Copan, Tikal, Olmec colossal head,
1050 BC- 1200 Early Chinese and Korean art- Purevbat
Key points- emperors, wooden construction, Buddhism, silk painting, ceramics,
detail, bronze work,
Art pieces; Army of first emperor of Qin, Fan Kuan- Travelers among mountains and
streams, Foguang Si Pagoda
700-100 BC- Greek Ian
Key points; Sculpture, fresco-painting, pottery, showing gods and heroes, use of
marble, human figure, Architecture, columns
Art pieces; Euthymides three revelers (vase), Kouros, Kriosos, Parthenon
80- BC- 400 - Roman Bandi
Key points; Sculpture, relief sculpture, architecture, vaults, sports events, heroic,
mosaics
Art pieces; Colloseum, Pantheon, portrait of Augustus as general Pompeii wall art
500- 1300’s- Early Japanese art- Justin
Key points; Shrines, statues and scrolls, Buddhism, architecture
Art pieces; Taizaokai of Ryokai Mandara, Yakushi triad, the burning of Sanjo Palace
600-1600- Islamic Art -Tiffany
Key points; script, mosaics, detail, religion, mosques, architecture, wool and silk,
decorative
Art pieces; Dome of the rock, Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, great mosque
Cordoba, Sultan Muhammad court of Gayumars, Maqsud of Kashan (carpet)
1000-1100- Middle ages Khubilai
Key points; Medieval art, Illuminated manuscripts, religion, commissioned work,
Artists; Lindisfarne Gospels, Gero Crucifix, Equestrian portrait of Charlamagne
1200-1400- Gothic Teresa
Key points; cathedrals, vaults, stain glass, religion, detail, illuminated manuscripts
Artists; Giotto, Lorensetti, Cimabue
Pieces; Amiens Catherdral, Reims Cathedral, Belleville Breviary
1400-1500- Renaissance- Pulee
Key points; Influenced by Greek and Roman art, great masters, science, perspective
Artists; Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian
1800’s – Realism Seung Eun
Key points; things as in everyday life, introduction of photography, truth and
accuracy, ordinary, reaction to romanticism
Artists; Manet, Goya, Courbet
1800’s – 1905 Impressionism & post-impressionism–Justine
Key points; Experimenting with form and color, capturing fleeting moments, pastel
colors
Artists; Monet, Degas, Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh
1890-1905- Art Nouveau- Vanessa
Key points; Decorative, young, flowers, stylized, stained glass windows
Artists; Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Wyspianski
1904-1908 Fauvism Misheel
Unatural use of color as personal expression of a scene (hot pink trees for example_
Artists; Derain, Matisse, Vlaminck
1905-1930 Expressionism- Tse- tse
Key points; Expression of art as feelings/emotions, harsch colors and sharp
distorted forms
Artists; Munch, Schiele, Kirchner, Kokoschka
1908-1916 Cubism- Sodbileg
Key points; dividing objects into many sided planes, drawing from more than one
perspective at a time
Artists; Braque, Gras, Leger, Picasso
1909-1918 Futurism Tadas
Expression of speed, violence, and war of the machine age
Artists; Balla, Boccioni, Severini
1916-1922 Dada – Soe E
Key points; Non traditional values as a rebellion to war, against high art, random
Artists; Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Jean Arp
1924-1941 Surrealism- Nathalie
Based on dreams, fantasy, the unconscious
Artists; Dali, Andre Breton, Max Ernst
1940-1950- Abstract expressionism Jun Woo
Key points; Images are spontaneous and abstract, expressive
Artists; De Kooning, Kline, Newman, Rothko, Still, Pollock
1960-1970- Pop art- Aha Young
Key points; Reaction against abstract expressionism. Portrayal of everyday objects
in popular culture
Artists; Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Warhol
Websites that may help you get started;
(unfortunately most of these only include western artists)
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=3,3
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/abc/
http://wwar.com/artists/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
http://www.theartgallery.com.au/ArtEducation.html
http://www.artlex.com/
The Library also has many great books on both art history and different countries.