Art and Craft

Art is the creative expression of ideas, emotions, and experiences through various mediums like visual arts, music, literature, and performance, reflecting cultural and individual perspectives.

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Study of Art History

The study of art involves exploring the history, theory, and practice of visual and performing arts. It encompasses the analysis of artistic techniques, cultural contexts, and the impact of art on society. This field helps in understanding human creativity, cultural heritage, and the evolution of artistic movements, fostering critical thinking and appreciation of diverse artistic expressions.

Timeline Of Art

Prehistoric Art: Early humans created cave paintings, sculptures, and carvings, primarily depicting animals and hunting scenes, which served as both ritualistic and communicative tools.
Classical Antiquity: Ancient Greek and Roman art focused on realism, idealized human forms, and monumental architecture, influencing Western art for centuries through sculptures, mosaics, and frescoes.
Medieval Art: Spanning from roughly the 5th to the 15th century, this period featured religious themes, illuminated manuscripts, and Gothic architecture, emphasizing spiritual representation over naturalism.
Renaissance Art: Marked by a revival of classical learning and humanism from the 14th to the 17th century, artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo advanced techniques in perspective, anatomy, and naturalism.

Functions of Art

Art has multiple functions, including aesthetic recognition, education, amusement, and experience. It brings people together and supports creativity and innovation. Art can convey realities, feelings, and points of view, and it can also serve as decoration, inspiration, and a record of historical events

Class 6th to 10th

Types of Arts

Ancient Arts

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Early Christian art

Renaissance art

Contemporary art

Ancient Arts 

Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with different forms of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

Early Christian Art

Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525. In practice, identifiably Christian art only survives from the 2nd century onwards.[1] After 550, Christian art is classified as Byzantine, or according to region.

Gothic Art

Romanesque Art

Romanesque art, architecture, sculpture, and painting characteristic of the first of two great international artistic eras that flourished in Europe during the Middle Ages. Romanesque architecture emerged about 1000 and lasted until about 1150, by which time it had evolved into Gothic. The Romanesque was at its height between 1075 and 1125 in France, Italy, Britain, and the German lands.

Renaissance art

Renaissance art, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and literature produced during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning, and a more individualistic view of man. Scholars no longer believe that the Renaissance marked an abrupt break with medieval values, as is suggested by the French word renaissance, literally “rebirth.”

Some Common Art techniques that will be taught throughout the year

• Easy composition still life

• Oil Pastel shading

• Mandala art

• Pop art

• Modelling clay

• Claywork on canvas

• Portrait

• Sketches

Amalgam of arts

Modern art, painting, sculpture, architecture, and graphic arts characteristic of the 20th and 21st centuries and of the later part of the 19th century. Modern art embraces a wide variety of movements, theories, and attitudes whose modernism resides particularly in a tendency to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art more in keeping with changed social, economic, and intellectual conditions.

• demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art making and designing.
• select organize, and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.
• apply relevant criteria to examine reflect on and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.
• collaboratively prepare and present selected theme - based artwork for display and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.
• interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of the subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art making approaches, and relevant contextual information

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Sanju Saini

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