On Visual Arts

Prehistoric, Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism

Timeline of Art Movements (from Prehistoric to Realism)

Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Expressionism, and Cubism

Timeline of Art Movements (Modernism)

Dadaism, Surrealism, Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Contemporary

Timeline of Art Movements (Contemporary)

Visual Arts

It arts is one of the oldest art forms. It existed even before formal language and written text, and has been utilized as the oldest method of documentation (i.e. cave paintings, sculptures). As a subfield of the arts, its developments are dependent upon the changes on our understanding of art.

painting

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) simply defines _____ as "a work of art made from paint applied to canvas, wood, paper, or another support." describe scenes, delight the senses, express emotions, communicate ideas, and allude either to other artworks or to common experience.

Mimetic Paintings

One of the broad genres of paintings that focuses on representation and imitation of reality

Formalist Paintings

One of the broad genres of paintings that prioritizes formal qualities or composition.

Parallel-aspect Paintings

One of the broad genres of paintings that depicts multiple perspectives creating dynamism

Twofold Paintings

One of the broad genres of paintings that engages in dual ways by balancing representational elements with abstraction or formal composition

Sculptures

Traditionally in Western Art, ______ are three-dimensional representations of recognizable objects. They are typically made of materials such as different types of hard stone, bronze, clay, and wood. As different art approaches were introduced, artists utilized non-conventional materials in making this type of art.

Sculpture

It is the art form consisting of the articulation or presentation of objects geared centrally toward appreciation in three spatial dimensions (and possibly the temporal dimension), excluding substantially constructed buildings and works involving the living human body." In other words, it excites not only our visual senses but also the sense of touch.

photograph

"For much of the history of the medium, a _____ was defined as a chemical image rendered visible by the action of light on photosensitive compounds. These images can be made on a variety of supports, such as paper, metal, glass, and plastic. More recently, this evolving practice has come to include visual data generated from scans of analog negatives, born-digital works, and images that only circulate digitally (MoMA, n.d.)."

1839

When is the invention of photography that revolutionized documentation? It enabled mass distribution and reproduction of images which catapulted the accessibility of different media. In contemporary times, our heavily visual culture is dependent on photographs.

Photographs

They are forms of representation, shaped by a series of decisions made by the photographer. Moreover, the way we interpret a _______ is influenced not only by the photographer's intention, but also by the ways in which a picture is produced, edited, and circulated (MoMA, n.d.)."