ART ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

An introduction

by Rebecca Jadon
 CULTURE
• Culture is the systems of knowledge
shared by a relatively large group of
people.
• Culture refers to the cumulative deposit
of knowledge, experience, beliefs,
values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies,
religion, roles, spatial relations, concepts
of the universe, and material objects and
possessions acquired by a group of
people in the course of generations
through individual and group striving.
• IDEAS, CUSTOMS, ARTS AND SOCIAL
BEHAVIOUR OF A SOCIETY OR PEOPLE
concept of culture is closely connected
Creativity and rationality are two
with the essence of man and his human
human characteristics
activity and characteristics
 ART & DESIGN

• Art is one of the manifestations

of culture
• Art may be seen as a form of
representation - physical/
emotional/perceptual/
symbolic/..
• Art is in everyday life
TIMELINE
 FORMAL ART MOVEMENTS

• CLASSICAL ART

• GOTHIC

• RENAISSANCE

• BAROQUE
Classical Art
•Idealistic proportions
•Mythological or hero themes
•perfectionism
 BYZANTINE ART
• Capital 4th century- Constantinople
– till 15th century
• East and west fusion of styles
• Religious expression
• Mosaic art
GOTHIC
 RENAISSANCE
• Rediscovery of classical philosophy
and the arts
• 15th to 17th century
• Humanism
• Break from religious orthodoxy
RENAISSANCE
BAROQUE

• Grandeur and splendour

• contrast, movement,
exuberant detail, deep
colour, surprise
 FORMAL ART MOVEMENTS
• REALISM
• IMPRESSIONISM ART NOUVEAU
• FAUVISM ART DECO
• CUBISM MODERNISM
• SURREALISM
• EXPRESSIONISM
• POST MODERNISM
• DECONSTRUCTIVISM
• POP ART
• Kant : an individualist definition of "enlightenment" similar to
the concept of bildung: "Enlightenment is man's emergence
from his self-incurred immaturity."[1] He argued that this
immaturity comes not from a lack of understanding, but from
a lack of courage to think independently.
• Humboldt (1795)  "worldview"(Weltanschauung).each ethnic
group has a distinct worldview that is incommensurable with
the worldviews of other groups. 
• Adolf Bastian (1860) developed a universal model of culture:
all human societies share a set of elementary ideas; different
cultures are local modifications of the elementary ideas
REALISM

Francois Millet 1857

Rodin Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

IMPRESSIONISM

Claude Monet
Post-IMPRESSIONISM

STARRY NIGHT – VINCENT VAN GOGH

ART NOUVEAU

ANTONI GAUDI

• MUCHA WILLIAM MORRIS

FAUVISM
a group of early 20th-century modern
artists

Simplified drawing. Exaggerated colors

MATISSE

ANDRE DERAIN
 EXPRESSIONISM
• artistic style in which the artist
seeks to depict not objective
reality but rather the
subjective emotions  and
responses that objects and
events arouse within a person

MUNCH, 1893
 CUBISM

PICASSO , 1937
• DISREGARD OF PERSPECTIVE
• EXPLORATION OF OPEN FORM
CUBISM
 CONSTRUCTIVISM
• Shift of focus from
composition to
materials, its
properties and
construction
• Influenced by TATLIN
Cubism, De Stijl

GABO
SURREALISM
• Origin- France, Belgium
• Surrealism is a cultural movement
that started in 1917 best known
for its visual art works and
writings and the juxtaposition of
uncommon imagery.

YVES TANGUY

MAX ERNST
 SURREALISM
Have no fear of perfection………………………………………

You ‘ll never reach it.

-Salvador Dali
POP ART

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
POST MODERNISM - DECONSTRUCTIVISM
• Style in architecture
defying natural
constructional forms
Further readings:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oh5TjZZmbU
• https://mymodernmet.com/important-art-movements/
• https://artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/modern_art_timeline.htm
• https://www.theartstory.org/movements/architecture/
• https://www.artcollective.com/blogs/articles/architecture-art
• https://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/modern_art_timeline.htm
• http://graphic-design.com/typography/design/william-morris-art-nouveau-style
• http://www.daevasdesign.com/constructivism-movement-architecture-design /