Art Through the Ages

The word Renaissance means ‘rebirth’.

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Renaissance artists were the first to study perspective and use it in their art.

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Baroque came after Impressionism.

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Rembrandt was a Baroque style artist.

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Baroque artists wanted to show life the way it really was.

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During the Baroque artistic era, not everyone could read, but they could understand pictures, so the church wanted plenty of paintings of biblical scenes that anyone could understand.

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The background of the painting wasn’t important to Impressionists.

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The style was called Impressionism because the artists were not painting an exact realistic picture.

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Impressionists used long brush strokes and applied paint thinly.

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The Art Nouveau style was applied to painting, sculpture, architecture, jewellery and furniture.

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