ART

"Past can be learned not only by the writings but through ART especially during the time when people don’t know how to write."

ART, as a term, is taken from the Italian word, "ARTIS", which mean means craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness and associations that exist between from and ideas and between material and techniques.

ART, as we study, is simply an imitation of nature. - An imitation enriched by human perception of reality or nature and by the use of the appropriate materials and to enhance nature.

Hence, art is not nature for it is man – made. DUDLEY and FARICY emphasized that “no matter how close art is to nature, it always shows that it was made by human.”

ART as a mirror of the times and the milieu of the artist. – one lasting effect of the ARTS to us is their value to us in terms of culture and heritage. Piece of ARTS are living symbols of the life and culture of the past.

Although, each work of art is evidently the expression of an artist’s personal thoughts and feelings, it maybe inferred that, like any other individual, he belongs to a milieu and he cannot free himself from the influence of his environment.

These influences are called factors which determine the style of the artist. These factors are as follow:
historical factors
geographical factors
political factors
psychological factors
sociological factors
ideational factors
technical factors

Major Stylistic Periods. – The style of the artist does not refer to the time when his particular piece of art is made but on the time when such style was widely used.

The Major Stylistic Periods
Greek Golden Age 500 bc – 410 bc
Hellenistic 336 bc – 146 ad
roman 146 - 323
medieval 323 - 1400
renaissance 1270 - 1594
mannerist 1530 - 1616
baroque 1600 - 1750
classic 1644 - 1793
rococo 1715 - 1774
romantic 1773 - 1848
realist & naturalist 1827 - 1927
impressionist 1863 - 1900
modern 1895 - present