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All About Arts - Art history, styles, movements, trends, schools, periods

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All About Arts - Art history, styles, movements, trends, schools, periods

Graphic Art

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Principally applied to the processes of printing from various kinds of blocks, plates or type, such as etching, drypoint, lithography, wood and linoleum block printing, etc.

Art's aim is to express emotions, experiences and ideas

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But what of the actual subject-matter which the majority of sculptures and paintings seek to portray? What of their content? Is this of secondary importance?

Art is as old as mankind

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We refer to the art of Antiquity, of the Middle Ages, of the Renaissance and of the Modern Age. This is a very broad classification, but it is still valid.

Art as a concept exists only in the realm of the mind

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Sculpture is the art of the sense of touch. When Michelangelo was nearly blind, it is said, he asked to be led to the statue of the Apollo of Belvedere so that he could feel the form with his hands.

The painting of historical subjects

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Uccello, 'The Rout of San Romano'; Titian, 'The Battle of Cadore', 'General del Vasco addressing his soldiers'; Tintoretto, 'The Battle of Zara'; and Leonardo's famous cartoon, since lost, of 'The Battle of Anghiari'.

Illumination

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The earliest illuminated manuscripts north of the Alps date from the 7th century. PreCarolingian illumination (7th and 8th cent.) mostly absorbed late classic Eastern and Byzantine influences and produced some works of the highest order, especially in the British Isles.

The earliest surviving articles of jewellery are Egyptian

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The earliest surviving articles of jewellery are Egyptian. Many techniques are represented: chiselling, moulding, hammering, inlay, filigree and cloisonné.

Lace-making

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Lace-making falls into two classes: (1) needlepoint made by the needle; (2) bobbin or pillow lace made with bobbins and pins on a pillow. Pillow lace may easily be distinguished from Point lace as in the former the ground or réseau is made of plaited thread.

Town Planning in Ancient Greece

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The Renaissance planners alone tried once again to devise 'ideal cities' on strictly geometric lines, preferably circular, polygonal or square, with a radial street system. But few towns were in fact built in this manner (Palmanova, Hanau, Freudenstadt).

A mosaic is a design formed by embedding small stones

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A mosaic is a design formed by embedding small stones, vitreous or enamelled cubes in cement. The method is an outgrowth of inlay. A remarkable piece of mosaic dating from c. 3500 B.C. was excavated at Ur.

Landscape Painting

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Landscape is the latest to develop of the various branches of painting. It probably cannot mature until a civilisation is sufficiently advanced for Man no longer to feel Nature as a wholly unpredictable, hostile force.

A lithograph is a flat print

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A lithograph is a flat print, i. e. the lines and areas to be printed are neither raised nor sunk, but entirely level with the plate. This can be made of limestone or slate, which is the reason for speaking of a lithograph (Greek lithos -- a stone).

Monastic Architecture

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The monks of Early Christendom lived separately in scattered cells, meeting at the monastic church for ritual purposes and in the refectory for meals. Later, the accommodation for the monks in Eastern Christendom was regularly built against the inside of a fortified girdle wall.

Crafts have a certain amount in common with sculpture

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Renaissance artists such as Leonardo, Dürer, Verrocchio and Cellini thought it natural to design all manner of things. After all, architecture is strictly speaking an 'applied art', since it has a function.