Baroque Period

Among the general characteristics of baroque art are a sense of movement, energy, and tension (whether real or implied). Strong contrasts of light and shadow enhance the dramatic effects of many paintings and sculptures. Even baroque buildings, with their undulating walls and decorative surface elements, imply motion with contrasts in light and color. Intense spirituality is often present in works of baroque art; in the Roman Catholic countries, for example, scenes of ecstasies, martyrdom's or miraculous apparitions are common. Infinite space is often suggested in baroque paintings or sculptures, no longer the contained units they were in the Renaissance. Realism is another integral feature of baroque art; the figures in paintings are not types but individuals with their own personalities. Artists of this time were concerned with the inner workings of the mind and attempted to portray the passions of the soul on the faces they painted and sculpted. The intensity and immediacy of baroque art and its individualism and detailóobserved in such things as the convincing rendering of cloth and skin texturesómake it one of the most compelling periods of Western art.

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.

What influences of Baroque can you attribute to the way you create your designs and artworks now?
I think in creating a painting in exaggerated ways.

Renaissance Period

In very simple terms, the Italian Renaissance re-established Western art according to the principles of classical Greek Art, especially Greek Sculpture and painting, which provided much of the basis for the Grand Tour, and which remained unchallenged until Pablo Picasso and Cubism. From the early 14th century, in their search for a new set of artistic values and a response to the courtly International Gothic style, Italian artists and thinkers became inspired by the ideas and forms of ancient Greece and Rome. This was perfectly in tune with their desire to create a universal, even noble, form of art which could express the new and more confident mood of the times.

Renaissance art emphasized the present physical world, had secular patrons instead of the church, artists wanted to be well-known, realistic, 3-d aspect to their works, frequently painted important secular people, painting/sculpture were the most popular media. Art which shows figures both religious or non-religious, more realistic, emphasis on nature, three dimensional with perspective, people are active and show great emotion. 3d, responded to light/shading, religious and everyday situations, active and looked real.

What influences of Rennaissance can you attribute to the way you create your designs and artworks now?
I think in creating realistic, 3D Perspective drawing, etc. In light and shading or other techniques how they create an artworks.