Memory Devices

Prehistoric Art...Cave Conjecture

Art of the Ancient Near East = SANBAN.

Sumerian

Akkadian

Neo-Sumerian

Babylonian

Assyrian

Neo-Babylonian

. = Persians

Ancient Egypt

Tombs

Temples

Timelessness

Aegean...Colored M&M's

Cycladic

Minoan

Mycenean

Greece...Measure of a MAN

Etruscan...Life in Death

Rome...MERIT

Monuments

Engineering

Realism

Interior Space

Temples

Early Christian Art...Transformers, Born Again!

Evangelist's Symbols: ALOE

Angel Matthew

Lion Mark

Ox Luke

Eagle John

Byzantine...4 F's

Formal

Flat

Frontal

Floating

Islamic Art = V² + A²

The four elements ornamenting Islamic art:

Vivid surface pattern created by shaped bricks (mostly for exteriors).

Vegetal designs, often highly stylized and abstract.

Abstract geometric patterns.

Animal figures (in secular settings)

Early Middle Ages...TV Networks HCO

Tribes

Vikings

Hiberno Saxon

Carolingian

Ottonian

Romanesque..Build it BLOCK BY BLOCK and they will come

Early Gothic...the Quest for Height and Light

Late Gothic/Proto Renaissance...Observe the Bean Sprout

Early Renaissance in the North...Consider the NUT

Renaissance in Italy...PMA

Positive

Mental

Attitude

Perspective

Modeling

Anatomy

16th Century (North)

Best of Both worlds...consider the nut and positive mental attitude

GMC

Giotto

Massacio

Caravaggio

Baroque and Rococo

If it is not broke...don't fit it!

Neo-Classiciam/Romanticism/Revolution...Enlightenment and Revolution...Head vs Heart

Impressionism...ELBOW

Everyday Life

Light

Brushstrokes

Outdoors

Weather

Rise of Modernism...Later 19th Century

Art of its own time...Art that IS real or art that APPEARS to be real