PAINTING HISTORY

EGYPTIAN PAINTING• It is associated with prehistoric times and

interpreted as an expression of concept rather than record of sensory experience. The Egyptian's love for beauty enabled them to create art in there everyday life. Hieroglyphys was their first art from which represented images with potential magic. There are three stages in the development of Egyptian painting. They are, first, the Old Kingdom which was associated with their kind of worship and life after death.

There are three stages in the development of Egyptian painting.

They are, first,• The OLD KINGDOM which was associated with

their kind of worship and life after death. • The next was the MIDDLE KINGDOM which

was the primarily used in tomb painting, depicting scene of local wars, animal life, and dancing and hunting scene.

• The last one is the NEW KINGDOM is formed in rock tombs, and is a scene of funeral and pilgrimages to Abyss.

GREEK PAINTING

• It is stablished the classic-tradition which is refinement in entasis or the correction of optical illusion.

ROMAN PAINTING

• It depicted casual and relaxed figures reflecting ideal beauty of the leisurely educated and well-bred life.

EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING

• This is characterized by the tendency towards espiritualization and by progressive abandonment of the limitation of the nature. The paintings are in bright and contrast colors.

BYZANTINES PAINTING

This style of painting is based upon intellectual Greek conceps rather than upon purely emotional apprehension.

ROMANESQUE PAINTING

• This followed the traditional of the spiritual art set by the earlier art. The artist capitalized on the use of expensive colors and rhythmic composition in order to stir uo religious emotions.

GOTHIC PAINTING

• This painting was instructional in nature and preserved in miniature from.

A god example is "lamentation" by Giotto Di Bodini

RENAISSANCE PAINTING• This started about the 14th century and is

characterized by the rebirth in the interest and concern for life toward new discoveries particularly in the field of the art.

• Micheangelo was the genius of that time both in painting and sculpture though his best work was in sculpture.

• Leonard Da Virci, another master of the period whose fine example in the use of "chioroscure" or tonal value is evident in his famous painting of the "Mona lisa" with the elusive and enigmatic smile.

MANNERISM PAINTING

• These are works of painters who are called mannerism because they were experimenting on the detail of early artist's style and then combined these few to new meaningful art. This type of painting is eclectic.