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Most of the visual arts terms and artists at right
are covered briefly in Humanities Connections.
If you would like your students to view a longer segment, you'll
find that in Humanities through the Arts.
Broadcast days are listed by each topic.
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Major Movements/Time Periods/Cultures
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Visual Arts
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AH-H-4.3.31 Ancient and lineage-based
Cultures
Near Eastern, African, European, Native American |
African masks: Broadcast 5
Pyramids: Broadcasts 13 and 14
(also, Native American: Broadcasts 15, 64) |
AH-H-4.3.32 Pacific Rim
Asian Cultures, China, Japan, India, Malaysia |
Ceramics, textiles: Broadcast 29, 59. |
AH-H-4.3.33 Classical Greece and Rome
800 BC-400 AD
Instructs and perfects humans: ritual worship. Presents the universal
ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason, and moderation |
Discus Thrower, The Parthenon: Broadcast
23 |
AH-H-4.3.34 Islamic and Judaic 500-700
Worships without "graven images," decorates surface of useful objects. |
Islamic architecture: Broadcast 33, 34 |
AH-H-4.3.35 Medieval 800-1400
Instructs in Christian faith. Appeals to the emotions, stresses importance
of religion. |
Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque architecture:
Broadcasts 32,36, 38, 39 |
AH-H-4.3.36 Renaissance 1400-1600
Reconciles Christian faith and reason. Promotes "rebirth" of the classical
ideal. Allows new freedom of thought. |
DaVinci, Michelangelo: Broadcast 46 |
AH-H-4.3.37 Baroque 1580-1700
Rejects the limits of previous styles. Restores the power of the monarchy/
church: excess, ornamentation, contrasts, tensions, energy. |
Rembrandt, Caravaggio: Broadcast 47 |
AH-H-4.3.38 Neo-Classicism/"Classical"
1720-1827
Style in music. Reacts to the excesses of monarchy and ornamentation
of the Baroque. Returns to order, reason and structural clarity. |
David: Broadcast 52
Thomas Jefferson: Broadcast 52 |
AH-H-4.3.39 Romanticism 1760-1870
Revolts against neo-classical order/reason. Returns to nature/imagination:
freedom, emotion, sentimentality, spontaneity: interest in the exotic,
patriotic, primitive and supernatural. |
Constable: Broadcast 53
Goya: See Connections, Student tape |
AH-H-4.3.310 Realism 1820-1920
Seeks the truth. Finds beauty in the commonplace. Focuses on the Industrial
Revolution and the conditions of working class. |
Courbet: See Connections, Student
tape
Manet: Broadcast 56 |
AH-H-4.3.311 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
1850-1920
Shows the effects of light and atmospheric conditions. Spontaneously
captures a moment of time. Expresses reality in different ways. |
Monet: Broadcast 58
Van Gogh: Broadcast 60
Cassatt: Broadcast See Connections, Student tape
Rodin |
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AH-H-4.3.312 Modern and Contemporary 1900-Present
Breaks with or redefines the conventions of the past. Uses experimental
techniques. Shows the diversity of society and the blending of cultures.
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Picasso: Broadcast 7, 61
Warhol: Broadcast 65
O'Keeffe: See Connections, Student tape
Dali: See Connections, Student tape
Lange: Broadcast 62
Wright: Broadcast 58
Jacob Lawrence: See Connections, Student tape |