I know a place, where art is influential
Europe, was that place where the artist had
potential
It all started, in the 14th century
Renaissance artists, provided many serenity
You can find perspective, and three dimensional
sculptures thanks to,
Botticelli and Brunelleschi who was influenced
by Toscanelli
Another way to talk about the end of Renaissance
or the start of Baroque was Mannerism
Philip the second of Spain, build the Escorial
Palace during the Reformation and Counter
Reformation times
Listen to the difference in European baroque
art
In southern Europe it was religious
While Northern Europe was based on trade and
domestic life
So Bernini and Vermeer used curves rather
than the basic straight lines
While Louis XIV builds Versailles
The art that is lighter and less formal than
Baroque
Was called Rococo art, in the 18th century
(doo, doo, doo...) Don'tchya wanna come on
and look at Neoclassicism on the way to Romanticism
That looks to ancient Greece and Rome for
inspiration in the beginning of nationalism
Romanticism and naturalism are defined by
The supernatural, patriotism, and the use
of nature, an emotional reaction against the
Neoclassical art
The complete opposite style of art is realism
And you can tell it portrayed the facts of
social problems and the Eiffel tower was built...
And Monet's painting started something new
Called Impressionism followed by Post Impressionism
Which used the pointillism technique
Symbolism and Art Nouveau was a romantic response
to realism in the 1890s
So please don't, please don't, please don't,
please don't go to war
But this inspired the artists in the 20th
century
Cubism, expressionism, futurism, and Dadaism,
World War I and II, and Surrealism, and social
realism, and Freud, Einstein and the atomic
age
All inspired artists of the modern period
such as
Picasso, Pollack, and Warhol, and Dali and
Dix and Giacometti
And you just learned about European art history!
