NOTE-TAKING WORKSHEET I

Name: Sumilong, Emil, T.

Course: BSBA 401 – Art Appreciation

YouTube Video: The Evolution of Art (And how it shaped the modern world)

Important Facts:

 The Upper Paleolithic, which saw the emergence of more sophisticated tools, lasted
from about 50,000–40,000 years ago until about 10,000 years ago. (Examples are cave
drawings)
 The Neolithic (or 'New Stone Age') is a term used for the period in our past when the
shift from hunting and gathering wild animals and plants to a farming lifestyle occurred.
It was also the time when pottery was first used, and in many regions, people also began
to live in permanent settlements. They start making statues and images.
 The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by
using bronze, in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
 The word hieroglyph means "sacred carvings". The Egyptians first used hieroglyphs
exclusively for inscriptions carved or painted on temple walls. This form of pictorial
writing was also used on tombs, sheets of papyrus, wooden boards covered with a
stucco wash, potsherds, and fragments of limestone.
 Age of Idealism is the metaphysical view that associates reality with ideas in the mind
rather than with material objects. Emphasizes the mental or spiritual components of
experience and enounces the notion of material existence.
 Hellenic Era is where Hellenistic art grew from the strong foundation of classical Greek
art. Yet, classical art often focused on gods and religion, while Hellenistic art appears
more concerned with the human form and human expression.
 Middle Ages (500 AD to 1500AD) is the Medieval civilization that reached its apex in the
13th century with the emergence of Gothic architecture, the appearance of new
religious orders (Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam), and the expansion of learning and
the university. The church dominated intellectual life, producing Scholasticism.
 The Renaissance (1300AD-1600AD) was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic,
political, and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as
taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the
rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature, and art.

 The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European

intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest
 of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt
in art, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, science, technology, politics, religion,
and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist
method in study and searched for realism and human emotion in art.
 Humanism - Renaissance cultural movement turned away from medieval scholasticism
and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
 Baroque Era (1600AD – 1750AD) Baroque period, (17th–18th century) Era in the arts
that originated in Italy in the 17th century and flourished elsewhere well into the 18th
century. It embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, and music .
 The Neoclassical period started in Europe around the middle of the 1700s (18 th Century)
and continued during the 1900s (19 th Century). It initially had roots in Rome but spread
to many other countries, primarily France and Britain, but also Russia and Germany,
among others.
 Romantic Age (1800-1850) The Romantic period or Romantic era lasted from the end of
the Eighteenth Century towards the mid-19th Century. Romanticism was a movement
that highlighted the importance of the individual emotions, feelings, and expressions of
artists. It rejected rigid forms and structures.
 The Japanese art of the Ukiyo-e Era developed in the city of Edo (now Tokyo) during
the Tokugawa or Edo Period (1615-1868). These two names refer to the relatively
peaceful 250 years during which the Tokugawa shoguns ruled Japan and made Edo the
shogunal seat of power.

Vocab words / Concept:

 art: /ärt/: noun

- the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a
visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily
for their beauty or emotional power.
 Neolithic /ˌnēəˈliTHik/: adjective
- relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone
weapons and implements prevailed

 Paleolithic /ˌpālēəˈliTHik/: adjective

- relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million
years, when primitive stone implements were used.
 Hieroglyphics /ˌhī(ə)rəˈɡlifik/: noun - writing consisting of hieroglyphs; enigmatic or
incomprehensible symbols or writing.
 Hellenic /heˈlenik/ adjective - Greek. The branch of the Indo-European language family
comprises classical and modern Greek.
  Renaissance /ˈrenəˌsäns/: noun - The revival of art and literature under the influence of
classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
 Humanism /ˈ(h)yo͞oməˌnizəm/ noun - an outlook or system of thought attaching prime
importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs
stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human
needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
 Complacency /kəmˈplāsənsē/: noun - a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with
oneself or one's achievements.
 Baroque /bəˈrōk/ adjective - relating to or denoting a style of European architecture,
music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is
characterized by ornate detail. In architecture, the period is exemplified by the palace of
Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy. Major composers include Vivaldi, Bach, and
Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists.

Important Words/ People/ Concepts:

 Andreas Vesalius was a 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the
most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem.
Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in
Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands .
 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was
active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
 Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter,
printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer
established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-
quality woodcut prints.
 Ndebele African Art There are five main colors represented: red and dark red, yellow to
gold, sky blue, green, and sometimes pink. The colors give an intensified symbolic
meaning to the Ndebele. They can mean the status or power of the home's owners,
offer prayer, announce a marriage in the home, or can represent a current protest.
 Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties;
kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and
landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
 Pablo Picasso - Cubism was an artistic style pioneered by Picasso and his friend and
fellow painter Georges Braque.

Things I don’t know:

  Way before the past eras, things that had been made and crafted are not considerably
conditioned as a form of art but things and necessities of humans for everyday life
utilization and forms of recognition, timetable, and survival.
 The significant difference between realism and stylized is that with realism you are
restricted to making things look 'real' while enhancing their visual language. With
stylized you are free to play with the shapes and colors and exaggerate or remove
details to enhance the look and feel in any direction.

What’s the point?

 Over the past centuries both art and art history have evolved radically. The given eras
developed ideas and relayed beliefs. Artists turned away from the classical tradition,
embracing new media and aesthetic ideals, and art historians shifted their focus from
the analysis of art's formal beauty to the interpretation of its cultural meaning. It
evolves through changes in culture and society.

NOTE-TAKING WORKSHEET II

Name: Sumilong, Emil, T.

Course: BSBA 401 – Art Appreciation

YouTube Video: The World’s First Artist – A view into the Stone Age

Important Facts:

 The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to
make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly
3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BCE and 2,000 BCE, with the advent of
metalworking. 
 Some of the riches areas with cave arts can be found in France and Spain (350 caves)
 Oldest cave art dispute originated from 28,000 t0 38,000 years ago. Most of them
showcase different kinds of animals (bison, horses, monkeys), and most are predators.
 Art For art history's purposes, Paleolithic Art refers to the Late Upper Paleolithic period.
This began roughly around 40,000 years ago and lasted through the Pleistocene
Paleolithic ice age, which ended about 8,000 BCE. Rock and cave painting, sketching,
jewelry, carving, engraving, and sculpting are examples of Upper Paleolithic European
art. There were also musical instruments like flutes, as well as sculptures made of clay,
antler segments, bones, stones, and ivory, such as the Venus figurines.

Vocab words/ Concepts:

 Paleolithic /ˌpālēəˈliTHik/ adjective: relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone
Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
 Polygamous /pəˈliɡəməs/ adjective - practicing, relating to, or involving polygamy.
 Monogamous /məˈnäɡəməs/ adjective - having an intimate relationship with only one
partner at a time.

Important words/ People/ Concepts:

 In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans
lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic
stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.
 Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the
responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants.
 Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion
of naturally occurring psychedelic substances; for example, and in particular, as
facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, ayahuasca, and
DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic mushroom.
Things I don’t know:

 Stone age people, preferably the European and the American Stone Age group relatively
drew the cave images not just by their idea to make it but it reflects the developments
and continuous discovery of their lifetime. Those cave art are considered their life
biography.
 The Sahara Desert was once a green-rich area in contrast to what we see how dry
Sahara is now.

What’s the point?

 Stone Age art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave
paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.

 The Stone Age lasted from 30,000 BCE to about 3,000 BCE and is named after the
main technological tool developed at that time: stone. It ended with the advent of
the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
 The Stone Age is divided into three distinct periods: the Paleolithic Period or Old
Stone Age (30,000 BCE–10,000 BCE), the Mesolithic Period or Middle Stone Age
(10,000 BCE–8,000 BCE), and the Neolithic Period or New Stone Age (8,000 BCE–
3,000 BCE).
 The art of the Stone Age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity,
preceding the invention of writing.

NOTE-TAKING WORKSHEET III

Name: Sumilong, Emil, T.

Course: BSBA 401 – Art Appreciation

YouTube Video: Modern and Contemporary Art Styles

Important Facts:

 Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from
the 1860s to the 1970s and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced
during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the
past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.
 Fauvism is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which included
Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is characterized by
strong colors and fierce brushwork.
 Surrealism is a cultural movement and artistic style founded in 1924 in Paris by Andre
Breton.
 Cubism is one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century, which broke
with the tendency in art at the time to create the illusion of a three-dimensional space
from a fixed viewpoint on a two-dimensional canvas. In Cubism, the two-dimensional
aspect of the canvas was instead emphasized by breaking down objects into different
planes.
 Dadaism was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and
North America. The beginning of Dada corresponds to the outbreak of World War I.
 Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or
the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse,
and technologically advancing

Vocab words/ Concepts:

 Fauvism /ˈfōˌvizəm/ noun - a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and

nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived,
had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists.
Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.
 Surrealism \ sə-ˈrē-ə-ˌli-zəm: the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic
or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater using unnatural or
irrational juxtapositions and combinations. It uses visual imagery from the
subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility.
 Cubism ˈkyo͞oˌbizəm/ noun - an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially
painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was
made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
 Dadaism \ ˈdä-(ˌ)dä-ˌi-zəm: A movement in art and literature based on deliberate
irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values.
  Contemporary art is the type of art that is solely made and produced by artists of
modern-day society. This art style usually depicts paintings, sculpture, photography,
installation, performance, and video art.

Important words/ People/ Concepts:

 Les Fauves (The Wild Beast) came from a sarcastic remark by art critic Louis Vauxcelles.
Colors should be used to express the artist’s feelings rather than simply describing what
it looks like.
 Sigmund Freud’s Freudian psychology develop the theory of the unconscious mind and
the mechanism of repression.
 Surrealist works feature the element of surprise and unexpected combination.
 Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring
subconscious imagery. Arguably, his most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory
(1931), depicting limp melting watches.
 Pablo Picasso - Cubism was an artistic style pioneered by Picasso and his friend and
fellow painter Georges Braque.
 Hans Ritcher – Dada was not an art. It was anti-art.
 Abstract Expressionism – gestural brush stroke or mark-making and impression of
spontaneity.
 Pop Art- 1950-the 60s. drawing inspiration from sources in popular commercial culture.
 Kinetic Art – (1920-70) Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by
the viewers or depends on motion for its effect (3 dimensional and machine).
 Optical Art – uses optical illusions
 Minimal – minimal art. Work is set out to expose the essence, essentials, and identity of
a subject by eliminating all non-essential forms, features, and concepts.

Things I don’t know:

 Dada: a seeming form of art but relatively told to be not an expression of art but an anti-
art.

What’s the point?

 Modern and Contemporary Art both can both be considered revolutionary,

but Contemporary Art is more about experimentation and freedom. Modern Art is an
 expression of individuality, while Contemporary Art focuses on social impact, with
society as the primary focus.
 Modern art plays an essential role as a stimulus that can provoke independent thoughts
and even emotions. Modern art allows the audience to embrace new ideas and reflect
on changes in the world and our lives differently.
 Contemporary art is important due to its historical value being a product and witness of
a specific time and era. It enables us to state, gain insight, and question certain socio-
cultural or ideological/political developments, raising awareness, calling the world to a
halt, and encouraging debate.