ART HISTORY (EARLY MODERN → 20TH CENTURY)

🧠 EARLY MODERN ART (Bridge Era)

👉 This period connects Renaissance → Baroque

In short:

• From “rebirth of classical ideas” → to “dramatic and emotional art”

💡 This part is important kasi dito nagsimula maging “modern” yung thinking sa art.

🏛 RENAISSANCE (REBIRTH ERA)

👉 After the Black Death → people started focusing on life again

Key Features:

• Media

  • Oil paint, fresco, marble

• Style

  • Realistic (parang HD version ng art)

  • Perspective (may depth na)

  • Study of anatomy & light

• Purpose

  • Celebrate human life + beauty

  • Not just religion anymore (may portraits na rin)

• Artists

  • Leonardo da Vinci

  • Michelangelo

  • Raphael

Real-life connection:

Parang shift from “survival mode” → “self-improvement era” 😌

🧠 QUICK TAKE:

👉 “Realistic + Human-centered”

MANNERISM (WEIRD BUT DEEP)

👉 Late Renaissance, medyo experimental na

Key Features:

• Media

  • Oil paint, fresco, marble

• Style

  • Elongated bodies (mahahaba)

  • Weird poses

  • Unbalanced compositions

• Purpose

  • Not realism → more on emotions & confusion

Real-life connection:

Parang abstract posts na “di mo gets pero may meaning daw” 😭

🧠 MEMORY:

👉 “Mannerism = exaggerated & confusing”

🎭 BAROQUE (DRAMA LEVEL 100)

👉 Very dramatic and emotional

Key Features:

• Media

  • Oil paint, fresco, marble

• Style

  • Chiaroscuro → light vs dark contrast

  • Tenebrism → super dramatic lighting

• Purpose

  • Tell stories (religious, historical)

  • Make viewers FEEL something

• Artists

  • Caravaggio

  • Peter Paul Rubens

Real-life connection:

Parang cinematic lighting sa movies 🎬

🧠 MEMORY:

👉 “Baroque = DRAMA + LIGHTING”

💖 ROCOCO (SOFT & FANCY)

👉 Opposite ng Baroque (less drama, more aesthetic)

Key Features:

• Style

  • Soft colors

  • Curvy lines

  • Decorative

• Purpose

  • Joy, love, elegance

  • For rich people spaces

• Artist

  • François Boucher

Real-life connection:

Parang Pinterest aesthetic / soft girl vibes 🌸

🧠 MEMORY:

👉 “Rococo = Soft + Cute + Fancy”

🏛 19TH CENTURY ART (BIG CHANGES)

👉 Art reacting to society & politics

⚖ NEOCLASSICISM (DISCIPLINED)

👉 Inspired by Greek & Roman art

Key Features:

• Media

  • Oil paint, bronze, marble
    -linear perspective and chiaroscuro

• Style

  • Symmetry

  • Clean & simple

  • Moral themes

• Purpose

  • Teach values (courage, sacrifice)

• Artists

  • Jacques-Louis David

  • Ingres

Real-life connection:

Parang strict teacher energy 😭

🔥 ROMANTICISM (FEELINGS OVER LOGIC)

👉 Reaction against Neoclassicism

Key Features:

Media:
oil paint, watercolor, and lithograph

• Style

  • Emotional

  • Nature (storms, mountains)

  • Dramatic scenes

• Purpose

  • Express personal feelings

• Artist

  • Eugène Delacroix

Real-life connection:

Parang “main character energy” 💔

🧱 REALISM (NO FILTER)

👉 Focus on real life struggles

Key Features:

• Style

  • Detailed

  • No idealization

• Purpose

  • Show truth (poverty, labor)

• Artists

  • Gustave Courbet

  • Jean-François Millet

Real-life connection:

Parang documentary or raw vlog

🧠 COMPARISON (19TH CENTURY)

🧠 MEMORY TRICK:

👉 “DRR”

• Discipline (Neo)

• Romance (Emotion)

• Reality

🌅 IMPRESSIONISM (MOMENTS)

👉 Capture the moment, not perfection

Key Features:

• Style

  • Quick brush strokes

  • Light-focused

  • Outdoor painting

• Purpose

  • Capture feeling of a moment

• Artist

  • Claude Monet

Real-life connection:

Parang candid shots, not posed 📸

🎨 POST-IMPRESSIONISM (DEEPER MEANING)

👉 More emotional + expressive

Key Features:

• Bold colors

• Strong brush strokes

• Purpose

  • Express deeper emotions

• Artists

  • Van Gogh

  • Cézanne

🔵 NEO-IMPRESSIONISM (SCIENTIFIC ART)

👉 More calculated than Impressionism

Key Features:

• Pointillism

  • Dots of color

• Purpose

  • Scientific approach to color

• Artist

  • Georges Seurat

🌙 SYMBOLISM (HIDDEN MEANING)

👉 Not literal—more on interpretation

Key Features:

• Dream-like visuals

• Emotional & abstract

• Purpose

  • Express subconscious thoughts

• Artist

  • Paul Gauguin

🌿 ART NOUVEAU (NATURE AESTHETIC)

👉 “New Art”

Key Features:

• Organic shapes

• Inspired by plants & nature

• Purpose

  • Make everyday objects artistic

• Artists

  • Gustav Klimt

  • Antoni Gaudí

🧠 MEMORY:

👉 “Art Nouveau = Nature + Design”

⚡ 20TH CENTURY ART (EXPERIMENT ERA)

🎨 FAUVISM (WILD COLORS)

👉 Color > accuracy

Key Features:

• Bright, unnatural colors

• Bold brush strokes

• Purpose

  • Express emotion

• Artists

  • Henri Matisse

  • André Derain

😱 EXPRESSIONISM (INTENSE FEELS)

👉 Focus on inner emotions

Key Features:

• Distorted forms

• Strong emotions

• Purpose

  • Show anxiety, fear, reality

• Artists

  • Edvard Munch

  • Kandinsky

🧊 CUBISM (BROKEN REALITY)

👉 Objects shown in multiple angles

Key Features:

• Geometric shapes

• Fragmented forms

• Types

  • Analytic → dull colors, broken shapes

  • Synthetic → brighter, collage

• Artists

  • Picasso

  • Braque

⚡ FUTURISM (SPEED & MODERN LIFE)

👉 Obsessed with movement & technology

Key Features:

• Motion, energy

• Dynamic compositions

• Purpose

  • Celebrate the future

• Artists

  • Boccioni

  • Balla

🔥 FINAL SUPER RECAP

Timeline Story (BEST MEMORY HACK)

👉 “From realism → emotion → reality → moment → meaning → experiment”

• Renaissance → Realism + human focus

• Mannerism → Weird/exaggerated

• Baroque → Drama

• Rococo → Soft elegance

• Neoclassicism → Discipline

• Romanticism → Emotions

• Realism → Truth

• Impressionism → Moments

• Post-Impressionism → Emotions deeper

• Neo-Impressionism → Science

• Symbolism → Hidden meaning

• Art Nouveau → Nature design

• Fauvism → Wild color

• Expressionism → Inner feelings

• Cubism → Broken forms

• Futurism → Speed

🧠 ULTRA MEMORY FORMULA

👉 “Real → Weird → Drama → Soft → Discipline → Feel → Real → Moment → Deep → Science → Symbol → Nature → Wild → Emotion → Break → Speed”