Western art began in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, spreading across Europe with the Roman Empire. Christianity was also a major influence for over 1400 years, commissioning art for the Church. Secularism has influenced Western art since Classical times. Stylistic periods include Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern. Traditional Chinese music can be traced to Neolithic bone flutes. During the Tang Dynasty, court music spread to common people. Distinctive regional operas emerged and combined into Beijing opera during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Traditional Chinese instruments include the pipa, horse-headed fiddle, erhu, and flutes.
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Western art began in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, spreading across Europe with the Roman Empire. Christianity was also a major influence for over 1400 years, commissioning art for the Church. Secularism has influenced Western art since Classical times. Stylistic periods include Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern. Traditional Chinese music can be traced to Neolithic bone flutes. During the Tang Dynasty, court music spread to common people. Distinctive regional operas emerged and combined into Beijing opera during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Traditional Chinese instruments include the pipa, horse-headed fiddle, erhu, and flutes.
Western art began in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, spreading across Europe with the Roman Empire. Christianity was also a major influence for over 1400 years, commissioning art for the Church. Secularism has influenced Western art since Classical times. Stylistic periods include Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern. Traditional Chinese music can be traced to Neolithic bone flutes. During the Tang Dynasty, court music spread to common people. Distinctive regional operas emerged and combined into Beijing opera during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Traditional Chinese instruments include the pipa, horse-headed fiddle, erhu, and flutes.
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Western art began in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, spreading across Europe with the Roman Empire. Christianity was also a major influence for over 1400 years, commissioning art for the Church. Secularism has influenced Western art since Classical times. Stylistic periods include Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern. Traditional Chinese music can be traced to Neolithic bone flutes. During the Tang Dynasty, court music spread to common people. Distinctive regional operas emerged and combined into Beijing opera during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Traditional Chinese instruments include the pipa, horse-headed fiddle, erhu, and flutes.
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o Western art begin with the art of the Ancient Middle
East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilisations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Parallel with these significant cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by Rome and carried; with the Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East he other major influence upon Western art has been Christianity, the commissions of the Church, architectural, painterly and sculptural, providing the major source of work for artists for about 1400 years, from 300 AD to about 1700 AD. he history of the Church was very much reflected in the history of art, during this period ïecularism has influenced Western art since the Classical period, while most art of the last 200 years has been produced without reference to religion and often with no particular ideology at all. On the other hand, Western art has often been influenced by politics of one kind or another, of the state, of the patron and of the artist. Western art is arranged into a number of stylistic periods, which, historically, overlap each other as different styles flourished in different areas. Broadly the periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern. ÷ ÷
he art of Ancient Egypt represented the dominant high culture
in the Mediterranean and exerted a strong influence on Minoan art. Egypt was a civilization with very strong traditions of architecture and sculpture (both originally painted in bright colours) also had many mural paintings in temples and buildings, and painted illustrations on papyrus manuscripts. Egyptian wall painting and decorative painting is often graphic, sometimes more symbolic than realistic. Artists as contemporary as Pablo Picasso have been directly inspired by Egyptian painting and sculpture. Egyptian painting depicts figures in bold outline and flat silhouette, in which symmetry is a constant characteristic. Egyptian painting has close connection with its written language - called Egyptian hieroglyphs. he Egyptians also painted on linen, remnants of which survive today Ancient Greece had great painters, great sculptors, and great architects. he Parthenon is an example of their architecture that has lasted to modern days. Greek marble sculpture is often described as the highest form of Classical art. Painting on the pottery of Ancient Greece and ceramics gives a particularly informative glimpse into the way society in Ancient Greece functioned. Black-figure vase painting and Red-figure vase painting gives many surviving examples of what Greek painting was. ïome famous Greek painters on wooden panels who are mentioned in texts are Apelles, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, however no examples of Ancient Greek panel painting survive, only written descriptions by their contemporaries or by later Romans. Zeuxis lived in 5-6 BC and was said to be the first to use sfumato. According to Pliny the Elder, the realism of his paintings was such that birds tried to eat the painted grapes. Apelles is described as the greatest painter of Antiquity for perfect technique in drawing, brilliant color and modeling Roman art was influenced by Greece and can in part be taken as a descendant of ancient Greek painting and sculpture, but was also strongly influenced by the more local Etruscan art of Italy. Roman sculpture, is primarily portraiture derived from the upper classes of society as well as depictions of the gods. However, Roman painting does have important unique characteristics. Among surviving Roman paintings are wall paintings, many from villas in Campania, in ïouthern Italy, especially at Pompeii and Herculaneum. ïuch painting can be grouped into 4 main "styles" or periods[2] and may contain the first examples of trompe-l'oeil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape.[3] Mannerism, a reaction against the idealist perfection of Classicism, employed distortion of light and spatial frameworks in order to emphasize the emotional content of a painting and the emotions of the painter. he work of El Greco is a particularly clear example of Mannerism in painting during the late 16th, early 17th centuries. Northern Mannerism took longer to develop, and was largely a movement of the last half of the 16th century. ` Baroque art took the representationalism of the Renaissance to new heights, emphasizing detail, movement, lighting, and drama in their search for beauty. Perhaps the best known Baroque painters are Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, and Diego Velázquez. A rather different art developed out of northern realist traditions in 17th century Dutch Golden Age painting, which had very little religious art, and little history painting, instead playing a crucial part in developing secular genres such as still life, genre paintings of everyday scenes, and landscape painting. ! After the death of Louis XIV, Rococo flourished for a short while, but soon fell out of favor. Indeed, disgust for the ornateness of Rococo was the impetus for Neoclassicism. Mannerism Ȅ 16th century Baroque Ȅ 17th century to 18th century Rococo Ȅ Mid-18th century @ raditional Chinese music can be traced back 7,000 - 8,000 years based on the discovery of a bone flute made in the Neolithic Age. During the ang Dynasty, dancing and singing entered the mainstream, spreading from the royal court to the common people. In the ïong Dynasty, original opera such as Zaju and Nanxi was performed in tearooms, theatres, and showplaces During the Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644 - 1911), the art of traditional opera developed rapidly and diversely in different regions. When these distinctive opera styles were performed at the capital (now called Beijing), artists combined the essence of the different styles and created Beijing opera, one of three cornerstones of Chinese culture (the other two being Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese painting).
Originally named after the loquat fruit, the earliest pipa known was found to have been made in the Qin Dynasty (221 BC Ȃ 206 BC).
he Horse-headed fiddle is a bowed stringed- instrument with a scroll carved like a horse's head. ÷ he Erhu, also called 'Huqin', was introduced from the western region during the ang Dynasty.
he earliest flute was made from bone over 7,000 years ago. R