| A Brief History of Art - The Foundation of | | | | Romanesque comes from the 19Th century art |
| Photography on Canvas | | | | historians, since it was the first time since ancient |
| A quick tour through the Art of Ages leads nicely | | | | Rome that Roman architectural forms were used |
| into the contemporary art form of photography | | | | in both art and architecture. Stained glass was |
| on canvas. It is a journey through time that | | | | popular at this time. All of the figures in stained |
| illustrates advances in technology and how it is | | | | glass are religious and Christian in origin. They are |
| that photography on canvas is the next logical | | | | colorful and highly proficient in design. |
| step in the revolution of art and culture. | | | | Modern art is a term that applies to artwork |
| Ancient art is scare and far between to locate, | | | | produced during the mid-1800s until the 1970s. |
| mostly because so much of it has been | | | | Like all historical artwork it reflects a very distinct |
| destroyed over time. That which has been found | | | | cultural style and attitude. Modern artists |
| is spectacular in its precision and the use of | | | | experimented with different ways of seeing the |
| unexpected materials. As far back as the Bronze | | | | world. Andy Warhol made his mark in New York |
| Age in Greece, the Minoans were already creating | | | | City with his expression of pop culture. His first |
| beautiful ceramics and stone carvings, a practice | | | | exhibition opened November 6Th, 1962. It ran for |
| that is very much used today. Typical ceramic | | | | one month and received mixed reviews from |
| patterns included simply geometric, pictures of | | | | critics and the public. The drawback to modern or |
| wildlife and flowers. The Minoans were also very | | | | contemporary art as it is also called is the public |
| skilled goldsmiths, creating gorgeous jewellery and | | | | perception of what is art? Warhol included moving |
| masks for royalty, temples and the nobility. | | | | video in his art exhibitions and rightly so. Is film |
| Clearly, art in the ancient Minoan culture involved | | | | not an expressive art form? |
| much more than simply drawings and paintings. | | | | Contemporary art also includes new technologies |
| In the Middle Ages, Indian Islamic art covered a | | | | that are being developed and refined more and |
| wide variety of crafts including illustrated | | | | more every year. Photography on canvas has |
| manuscripts, ceramics, metal-works and glass. | | | | recently gained great credibility on the art scene, |
| The earliest known Indian paintings are called | | | | although there are still mixed public opinions about |
| petroglyph's. A petroglyph is an image created by | | | | it, just as there are mixed opinions about modern |
| removing part of a rock surface through pecking | | | | art to this day. Warhol experimented with silk |
| and carving. The word comes from the Greek | | | | screen paintings. Had he been alive today no |
| petros (stone) and glyphein meaning to carve. | | | | doubt he would have helped to initiate the |
| Consider that every manuscript ever written and | | | | movement toward photography on canvas. |
| illustrated, every stone carving and every piece | | | | Some of the concerns about photography on |
| of art in that time was done by hand and took | | | | canvas are how long it takes to complete the |
| days, weeks, even months and years to | | | | procedure, the quality of the artwork, the |
| complete! It was an astronomical amount of work | | | | durability and whether or not it truly is a tasteful |
| that, although integral to the culture of the time, | | | | piece of art. The answers are very reassuring. It |
| paid insignificant monies. As always in history, the | | | | takes a matter of days to produce the gorgeous |
| Islamic artists of theday barely eked out a living. | | | | canvases and the quality is incredibly remarkable. |
| The rise of Romanesque art refers to the period | | | | Not only is the artwork tasteful it is a spectacular |
| from 1000 to the onset of Gothic art in the 12Th | | | | tribute to color, design and technology that |
| century. Gothic art, also known as religious | | | | belongs in every art collectors' home or business. |
| Christian art, developed alongside the rise of | | | | Detailing and aesthetic appeal are superb and rival |
| monasticism in Western Europe. Its architectural | | | | the talents of an artist who sketches or paints by |
| design is dominated by thick walls, and | | | | hand. |
| round-headed windows and arches. The name | | | | |