The term “art history” is easy to understand at first glance. It is the history of art. But the topic goes deeper than that. It asks, “What is art?” and “Whose historical events should we study?” Art history is more than a chronological list of all the world’s artistic movements. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ART HISTORY? History tends to repeat itself. So,…
Photography is both an artistic medium as well as a documentary and journalistic medium. It’s done by everyone from career artist to amateurs picking up a camera for the first time. And it’s become an incredibly successful medium. All this comes together to inspire the history of art photography. Let’s look at the history of art photography from its earliest…
Advances in technology during the late nineteenth and into the twentieth century allowed people from European countries faster and more frequent trips to other areas of the world. The colonization of Africa, India, and other areas meant there was a lot of trade going on between them and Europe. This resulted in large-scale exposure to their cultures as well as…
In the beginning… The history of art is as old as the history of humans on Earth. Art developed when prehistoric people started drawing on the cave walls for different reasons. It started in the stone age when our ancestors learned how to make different objects like arrows and bowls out of stone first. After that, it took off. The…
