Painting

CAVE

Document/history

Selfie

Narrative

EGYPTIAN 

Hierarchy - levels of status

 Text & image - supernatrual

Not meant to be seen - inside tombs

Flat space - filled up - decorative

Horus - Sky God - nobility's interaction with these other beings

GREEK 

Linear narration

Gods

Classic/natural - Goddess - Mural/adornment

ROMAN 

Background/foreground - home

Classical - emotion and personality

Strength/divine connection

Eroticism

Abundance/still life

MEDIEVAL  - secular to religious

Madonna & Child

 

War

Expansive space/landscape

Stylized figures

Alterpieces - church's influence

Book of hours

Feast/perspective

Crucifixion/13 stations of the cross

EARLY RENAISSANCE - FLEMISH

Jan Van Eyck

One point perspective

Composition - flow

Grief close up

RENAISSANCE 

Beauty

Neo Classical/leaving religious focus

Sistine Chapel - classic male beauty - nudity

Michelangelo

One point perspective

Realism and wealth

MANNERISM, BAROQUE, CLASSICAL & ACADEMIC

Classical - wealth and property

Enhanced reality - other worldly 

Mannerism - El Greco  

Mannerism - abstract portrait

Baroque - chiaroscuro 

Baroque - religious

Cultural differences

MODERN

Working men

Beauty in location - color emphasis

Emotion - dark and desolation 

Painterly - movement by materials

Mark making - documentation of a vocation

Paint & color theory 

Decorative - abstraction

Civil unrest - message art

Essence of light and moment

Cultural significance

Traditional subjects in abstract way

Pushing abstraction

Examination of common culture

CUBISM & DADA

Capturing motion in static image

Figure

Text

Self identification - collage

Appropriation and transformation

POST MODERNISM

Popular culture - childhood experiences

Popular culture - actor

Complete abstraction 

Abstraction - color theory

Surrealism - dreams

Advertisement - direct

Grid work

Dark abstraction

Urbanization 

Abstraction - decorative and heavy

Cultural collaboration - positive/negative space

The city street

Alternative materials - modern low reliefs

Pushing reality

Very personal narratives

Violence in materials 

Commercial interruptions 

Power and scale 

Paint as confection

Hyper - realism

Inside me - outside view

Neo - renaissance - urbanization

Focus on color 

Graffiti and social engineering through advertising