Examples of Parietal Art in the following topics:
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- Western Europe was particularly bountiful for archeological discoveries (especially southern France and northern Spain), with numerous caves and open-air sites containing spectacular parietal (cave art) and portable (small sculpture) artworks being found that are among the earliest undisputed examples of image making.
- Typical of most cave art, there are no paintings of complete human figures.
- Altamira (circa 18,000 BC) is a large, winding cave in northern Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic rock-art featuring polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
- The art at this location is either carved, incised, picked, or a combination of these various techniques, but it is rarely painted.
- It is the only piece of Upper Paleolithc portable art depicting an animal found in Britain.
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- The second main form of Paleolithic art consists of monumental cave paintings and engravings.
- Paintings and engravings along the caves' walls and ceilings fall under the category of parietal art.
- Early rock art also first appeared in the Neolithic period.
- The advent of metalworking in the Bronze Age brought additional media available for use in making art, an increase in stylistic diversity, and the creation of objects that did not have any obvious function other than art.
- Also the oldest known, undisputed depiction of a human being in prehistoric art.
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- Paintings and engravings along the caves' walls and ceilings fall under the category of parietal art.
- As is typical of most cave art, there are no paintings of complete human figures in Chauvet.
- The artists who produced these unique paintings used techniques rarely found in other cave art.
- The art also includes scenes that were complex for its time—animals interacting with each other.
- Like all prehistoric art, the purpose of these paintings remains obscure.
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- Contemporary art is the overall production of art made after World War II.
- The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is Contemporary Art.
- In some descriptions post-modernism as a period in art history is completed, whereas in others it is a continuing movement in Contemporary art.
- In art, the specific traits of modernism which are cited generally consist of: formal purity, medium specificity, art for art's sake, the possibility of authenticity in art, the importance or even possibility of universal truth in art, and the importance of an avant-garde and originality.
- This last point is one of particular controversy in art, where many institutions argue that being visionary, forward-looking, cutting edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art in the present, and that postmodern art therefore represents a contradiction of the value of art of our times.
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- The ways in which we use art depend on the type of art in question.
- The ways in which we use art depend on the type of art in question.
- Motivated art is art that has been given an intentional, conscious purpose by the artist or creator such as popular culture and decorative arts.
- Art can have ritualistic and symbolic functions.
- Differentiate between motivated and non-motivated art, and between the functions of fine arts, popular art, and decorative arts
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- Art Nouveau is an international style of art (especially the decorative arts) and architecture that was most popular from 1890–1910.
- Art Nouveau is an international style of art and architecture that was most popular from 1890–1910 AD.
- The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art".
- Maison de l'Art Nouveau was the name of the gallery initiated during 1895 by the German art dealer Samuel Bing in Paris that featured exclusively modern art.
- Artists thus desired to combine the fine arts and applied arts, even for utilitarian objects.