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Quarter 1, Wk.5 - Module 5
Western Classical Art Traditions

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Western Classical Art Traditions

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 Table of Contents

Lesson 1:
Western Classical Art Tradition
What This Module is About......................................................................... i
How to Learn from this Module................................................................... ii
What’s In………... ...................................................................................... 1
What I Need to Know......................................................................................................1
What I Know................................................................................................ 2
What’s New........................................................................................................................3
What Is It.............................................................................................................................4
What’s More......................................................................................................................10
What I Have Learned......................................................................................................11
Rubrics……………………………………………………………………………12
What I Can Do……………………………………………………………………13

Summary............................................................................................................................ 14
Assessment: (Post-Test).................................................................................................... 16
Key to Answers............................................................................................................................................ 17
References.................................................................................................................................................... 18
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What This Module is About
Why is art important in the history of mankind? You will probably ask this question?

It is significant in light of the fact that it gives you presentation to different humanities
subjects, relating them to make inferences and basic assessment of various fine arts. The
learning procedure likewise assists with finding out about significant occasions in history and
know precisely how the experience of that course of events resembled.

In this module, it will help you understand the history and tradition of a certain period
in time through their artwork. You will also be able to learn the different characteristics of the
artwork made and compare this to other art periods.

Readings are provided at the start of the lesson to give you an overview of the
artworks produced in the different art periods.

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 How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that
Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.

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 Western Classical Art
Lesson Traditions
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What’s In

INTRODUCTION

The documents of western painting represents a continuous, although disrupted, way

of life from antiquity until the present time. Until the mid-19 th century it was once particularly
worried with representational and classical modes of production, after which time more
modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favour.

During the Ancient Egypt civilization with strong traditions of structure and sculpture
(both firstly painted in brilliant colors), had many mural paintings in temples and buildings,
and painted illustrations on papyrus manuscripts. Egyptians wall portrait and decorative
paintings are frequently in graphic forms, more symbolic than realistic. Egyptian painting
depicts figures in bold outline and flat silhouette, in which symmetry is a steady
characteristics. Egyptian painting has shut connection with its written language – called
Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Painted symbols are located amongst the first varieties of written
language. The Egyptian also painted on linen, remnants of which continue to exist today.

What I Need to Know

LEARNING AREA STANDARD

The learner demonstrates an understanding of basic concepts and processes in
music and the arts through appreciation, analysis, and performance for his/her self-
development, celebration of his/her Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and expansion of
his/her world vision.

KEY- STAGE STANDARD

The learners demonstrates an understanding of salient features of music and arts of
the Philippines and the world through appreciation, analysis, and performance for self-
development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of
one’s world vision.

GRADE LEVEL STANDARDS

The learner demonstrates of salient features of Western music and the art from
different historical periods through appreciation, analysis, and performance for self-
development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of
one’s world vision.
CONTENT STANDARD
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  The learner demonstrates understanding of art elements and processes by
synthesizing and applying prior knowledge and skills.
 Demonstrates understanding that the arts are integral to the development of
organizations, spiritual belief, historical events, scientific discoveries, natural
disasters/occurrence, and other external phenomenon
PERFORMANCE STANDARD
 The learner performs/ participates completely in a presentation of a creative
impression (verbal/nonverbal) of a particular artistic period
 Recognizes the difference and uniqueness of the art styles of the different
periods (techniques, process, elements, and principle of art)
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this Module the learners are expected to:
1. Use artworks to derive the traditions / history of an art period
2. Compare the characteristics of artworks produce in the different art period

What I Know

Pre-Assessment:
Online/Offline activity
Directions: Match column A with Column B to determine which Era belong to.
Write your answer on the box provided.

A B

1. Cave of Lascaux A. Pre-historic

2. Hieroglyphics B. Egyptians
3. Rose window C. Greek
4. Aphrodite D. Roman
5. Venus of Willendorf E. Byzantine
6. The Morgan leaf F. Romanesque
7. Madonna and Child G. Gothic
8. Calyx-crater H. Ars Nova
I. Ars Antiqua

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What’s New
MOTIVATION
Identify pictures of different western classical art from different era.
(e.g. Pre-historic Art, Classical Art, Medieval Art)
 What Is It

PAINTINGS FROM THE PRE-HISTORIC ERA

Their art works have been observed inside the caves which can also have been their
way of speaking with others. In addition, their artworks maybe for non-secular or ceremonial
purposes.
These paintings would possibly be an artifact of an archeological proof of a proper
image of humans first created art.
Prehistoric drawings of animals were often suitable in proportion.

CAVE OF LASCAUX, 1

The dominant aspects in the paining were giant animals native in the region. It was
once located on September 12, 1940, and given statutory ancient monument protection.
The portrayal has nearly 2,000 figures composed usually of animals human figures,
and summary design.
Some sections have been recognized inside the cave such as: The Great Hall of the
Bulls, The Lateral Passage, The Shaft of the Dead man, The Chamber of Engravings, The
Painted Gallery, and the Chamber of Felines.

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 PAINTINGS FROM THE ANCIENT EGYPT

The motive of Egyptian paintings is to make the deceased afterlife pleasant.

With this in mind, the challenge of introducing the deceased to the gods of the
underworld by using skill of their defending deities matters.

PAINTINGS FROM THE CLASSICAL ERA

Paintings for the duration of the classical generation were most commonly
located in vases, panels, and tomb. They depict natural figures with dynamic
compositions. Most of the subjects have been battle scenes, mythological figures,
and daily scenes. They reveal a hold close of linear point of view and naturalist
representation.

Most regular strategies of Greek painting:

1. Fresco — technique of water-based pigments on a freshly applied plaster
in many cases on a wall surfaces.
2. Encaustic — developed by Greek ship builders, who used pigmented warm
wax and molders to fill the cracks of the ship.

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 JUDGEMENT OF PARIS

(370-330 B.C.)

Vase painting
Kerch Style also referred to as Kerch Vases are red, figured pottery named afterthe
place where it was once found.

Shapes generally found are:

1. pelike (wine container)

2. lekanis (a low bowl with two horizontal handles and a low broad
foot)
3. lebes gamikos (with high handles and lid use to raise bridal bath)
4. krater (bowl use for mixing wine and water)

PANEL PAINTING

They are art work on flat panels of wood. It can be each a small, single-pieced or
several panels joined together. Most of the panel artwork no longer exist because
of their organic composition.

The earliest regarded panel painting is the:

PITSA PANEL

TOMB/WALL PAINTING

Tomb or wall portray was very famous in the course of the classical period. It makes
use of the method frescos in both tempera (water-based) or encaustic (wax). It has a sharp,
flatly outlined fashion of painting and due to the fact it makes use of water-based
materials,very few samples survived.

The photo was painted with the use of a real fresco method with a limestone mortar.

TOMB OF THE DIVER

(Paestrum 480 BCE)

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PAINTINGS FROM THE ROMAN ERA
Most of the artwork in this technological know-how have been copied or imitated from
Hellenic Greek paintings.

Roman artwork work have a significant vary of subjects, animals, day-to-day life, still
life, mythological subjects, portraits, and landscapes.
The improvement of panorama painting is the predominant innovation of Roman
painting from Greek painting.

Mosaic

It is an artwork where an image is created with the use of an assemblage of small pieces of
coloured glass, stones or unique materials.

This approach is used for ornamental art or indoors decorations.

HEAD OF ALEXANDER

BYZANTINE PAINTING

The active patterns of paintings which had been invented in Greek and Rome lived on in
Byzantium however this time for Christian subjects.
By the eleventh century, the Greek and Oriental patterns seem to combo collectively in
magnificent, imposing images, which adorned the churches in massive and small forms.

Fresco from the Villa of Mysteries

Pompeii 80 BC

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ROMANESQUE PAINTING

These are ordinarily positioned mosaics on the walls of the church structures that
follow a strict frontal
pose.
It has an amazing range of creative traditions such as modeling of faces and
draperies that examine Byzantine convention while the refreshingly decorative feeling comes
from southern French styles. It additionally indicates traces of Mozarabic have an impact on
(Arabize influence) through elongated oval faces, massive staring eyes and long noses,
figures in opposition to flat colored bands and heavy outlining. Christ wears a greyish, white
gown with a blue mantle. Underneath the Mandorla (Italian word for "almond," used to
describe an enclosure surrounding holy figures in painting) is a black band with white writing.
Each side of the center window are three arches resting on columns of capitals in green, red,
and black and in between of the figures of Virgin Mary and 5 saints are columns of vertical,
wavy line patterns. This mu- ral portray has been moved to Barcelona and replaced thru a
replica.

CHRIST IN MAJESTY

PAINTINGS FROM THE GOTHIC ERA

Paintings have been constrained in the illumination of manuscript pages and the
painting frescoes on the partitions of church buildings in cosmopolitan style, stylish
mannered, and sophisticated.

Lady and the Unicorn tapestry

1506-1513
Subjects generally depict famous legends and
love stories. Patterns like mille fleur or
thousand
flowers show off have an impact on which can
additionally have been
due to the Crusades.

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 Rose window from the North transcept
about 1230

Stained glass home domestic windows

had been created to transform the
massive stone interiors with warmness
and glowing color and at the equal time
to instruct Christians in their faith.

What’s More

Activity: Know Your Own

Directions: Teacher will select 3 Artworks in each period and let them make a short
description of each artwork that the teacher have chosen.

1. MOSAIC
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3. PANEL PAINTING
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 What I Have Learned

Make an Essay comparing the characteristics of artworks produce in the different art period
following the Rubrics given:

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RUBRICS

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 What I Can Do

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. How can you use your knowledge about Western classical art in real life?
2. Why is knowing about Western classical art important? Share your opinion.
Summary

PAINTINGS FROM THE PRE-HISTORIC ERA

Their art work have been observed indoors the caves which can also have been their
way of speaking with every other. It can additionally in addition be for non-secular or
ceremonial purposes.

PAINTINGS FROM THE ANCIENT EGYPT

The motive of Egyptian paintings is to make the deceased afterlife region pleasant.

PAINTINGS FROM THE CLASSICAL ERA

Paintings for the duration of the classical generation were most commonly located in
vases, panels, and tomb. They depict natural figures with dynamic compositions. Most of the
subjects have been battle scenes, mythological figures, and daily scenes. They reveal a hold
close of linear point of view and naturalist representation.
Most regular strategies of Greek painting:
1. Fresco — technique of water-based pigments on a freshly applied. Plaster in many cases
on a wall surfaces. Colors are made of floor powder pigments ,mixed in pure water, dried,
and set with plaster to stop up a everlasting section of the wall. Ideal for murals, durable, and
has a matte style.
2. Encaustic — developed by means of way of manageable of Greek ship builders, who
used warm wax to fill the molder. Cracks of the ship. Pigments (colors) had been delivered
and used to paint a wax hull.

Vase painting
Kerch Style also referred to as Kerch Vases are red, figured pottery named after the
place where it was once found.

Shapes generally found are:

1. pelike (wine container)
2. lekanis (a low bowl with two horizontal handles and a low broad
foot)
3. lebes gamikos (with high handles and lid use to raise bridal bath)
4. krater (bowl use for mixing wine and water)

PANEL PAINTING
They are art work on flat panels of wood. It can be each a small, single-pieced or
several panels joined together. Most of the panel artwork no longer exist because
of their organic composition.

TOMB/WALL PAINTING
Tomb or wall portray was very famous in the course of the classical period. It makes
use of the method frescos in both tempera (water-based) or encaustic (wax). It has a sharp,
flatly outlined fashion of painting and due to the fact it makes use of water-based materials,
very few samples survived.

PAINTINGS FROM THE ROMAN ERA

Most of the artwork work in this technological know-how have been copied or
imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco strategy was once used in brightly colored
backgrounds; division of the wall into a couple of rectangular areas (tic-tac-toe design);
multi-point perspective; and a tropme-l-ocil effect.

BYZANTINE PAINTING
The active patterns of paintings which had been invented in Greek and Rome lived on in
Byzantium however this time for Christian subjects.
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ROMANESQUE PAINTING
These are ordinarily positioned mosaics on the walls of the church structures that follow a
strict frontal
pose.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Ancient- dating from remote period; of great age

Encaustics- a paint of pigment mixed with beeswax and fixed with heat after its application
Era- a period of time as reckoned from a specific date servng as the basis of its
chronological system.
Fresco- a technique of paiitng on a wall using a moist plaster surface with colors ground up
im water or a lime mixture
Hellenistic- relating to the characteristic of the classical greek Greek civilization from the
death of Alexander the Great to the accession of August.
Mosaic- a design or decoration made up of small pieces of colored glass, stone etc.
Pigments- a substance used in coloring

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Assessment: (Post-Test)

Identify and name the pictures of different western classical art from in
different era.
 Key to Answers

1. Cave of Lascaux – Pre-historic era

2. Sarcophagus of Tutankhanen XVII dynasty- Egyptian era
3. Judgement of Paris- Classical Greek era
4. Tomb of the diver- Classical Greek era
5. Pitsa Panel- Classical Greek era
References

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