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Art Movement

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For this assignment, you will be able to understand the following: 1) The difference between and Art Period and Art Movement 2) Various Art Periods and Movements and their style  3) How the Art Periods and Movements reflect cultural values Directions: For today's assignment, you will be discovering various art periods and art movements. As art history unfolds over time, many of these distinctive eras throughout history reveal the cultural values and ideas that defined the era. As human beings progressed more rapidly, so too did the art movements change and shift quickly. In fact, many of the art movements tend to overlap in other forms of such as art such as music, theater and poetry. Also, another aspect that you will discover is that most art movements build on from the previous while also rejecting certain aesthetics of the previous movement simultaneously.  When encountering a work of art for the first time, it is often helpful to learn which period/movement it belongs to because with this information, you will discover the time period, place, visual culture, cultural culture and ideology that surrounds the work of art. You may even begin to develop preferences for specific art movements over your art education that will allow you to appreciate artworks more fully. After watching the videos below, click on the link to Google Arts and Culture to discover all of the distinctive art movements since the inception of art history. Click on at least 10 periods/movements that interest you and write a short synopsis in your own words of all TEN of the period/movement that you selected. Aspects to consider are artists who participated, the style, medium, concepts, subject, region and time period.  Vocabulary Terms: Culture, Medium, Aesthetics Word Count: This should be 400 words minimum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfX1tvloLNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyabu9mU1bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rPtmiJ678 https://artsandculture.google.com/category/art-movement You must also use the vocabulary terms mentioned and they must be typed within the essay in bold letters. HOW TO USE THE TERM IN YOUR WRITING:You can use a variation of the word in your Writing Assignments if necessary. For example, if the word is Allegory, than you may use the word Allegorical. As mentioned above, you must you the word within the context of the artwork. For instance, one of your terms this semester is PATTERN. You would use this term and relate it to a specific work of art. For example: "The painting by Sean Scully uses repetitive motifs of lines and shapes to form a quilt-like pattern in his artwork." You would NOT use pattern in a sentence that follows: "We can find that humans often create patterns throughout history." The more specific to the provided content, the better!
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