The Art of the Harlem Renaissance was the product of the African-American art and literary movement in the neighborhood of Harlem in the uptown Manhattan. Alain Locke’s book “The New Negro” encouraged the black artists to retrieve their ancestral birthright as their means of strengthening their expression. African-American embraced all forms of art including painting, [...]

Harlem Renaissance prospered from early 1920 to 1940. It was an African-American’s expression of social thought and culture which occurred in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City, a newly-formed Black community. Named after The New Negro anthology, it was better known as the “New Negro Movement”. It was expressed through every cultural dance, [...]

One of the most distinctive aspects of Renaissance art was its advancement of greatly realistic linear perspective. The advancement of perspective was a part of the growing shift towards realism in artworks like paintings and sculptures. Different factors like light and shadow were studied by artists during the Renaissance period. Through applying the principles of [...]

Early Renaissance covered the period from 1400 to 1500. This period depicted artists as craftsman and arts were created by commission and imitation. This period was characterized by workshop system where there were collaborations between masters and apprentices, artworks were run like businesses and were commonly family-based. Artists who were product of this workshop system [...]

Italian Renaissance is a period of great Cultural Revolution in Europe. It marks the transition from Medieval and Early Modern Europe. It was one of the most rewarding periods in art’s history in major fields like sculpture, painting and architecture. It had been known for its cultural achievements. It helped starts the Renaissance Period through [...]

Italy was the birthplace of one of the most important periods of human history – the Renaissance period. Renaissance stands for the word “rebirth” in French. The art during this time was inspired by the classics of Rome and Greece. The transformation did not only happen in their form of art alone, it also influenced [...]

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) Michelangelo was one of the greatest sculptor and painter during the Renaissance period. His most favorite subject was the human body. He was so determined to study the details and facets of the human body that he was willing to observe dead bodies in the hospital. Michelangelo believed that sculpting [...]

Renaissance Period is the period when new ideas on art and humanities were revived and renewed. It was a cultural movement that spanned from Italy and spreads out to the rest of Europe. With this rebirth, greater interest emerged for the Ancient Greek and Roman culture. It was the time of a new way of [...]

The word Renaissance means “rebirth”. It is the period from the early 1300’s to approximately 1600 when interest in literature, history and art were renewed. It is the time when study of ancient Greece and Rome was renewed. It was also considered the time when Europe recovered its economy.
Before the Renaissance, literary production [...]

American Renaissance happened in the mid-19th century when most American masterpieces were made and produced. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter are some examples of the American Renaissance Art.
American Renaissance Art is more eclectic and unique compared to the old Hudson River School Arts. Arts during those times were expressed [...]