Medieval and Renaissance art

Grandma Moses was known as a primitive artist or folk artist. Since she never received formal training as a visual artist, Grandma Moses did not use many of the methods and techniques known by the trained artists of her day. Even though artists of the Middle Ages (Medieval) were able to receive training, many important technical breakthroughs in visual art that artists of today understand, would not be discovered or used by artists until the Renaissance period.

1. Use the Internet to search web sites and view the visual art of Grandma Moses and the visual art of the Middle Ages (Medieval).
2. Compare and contrast Grandma Moses’ art with the visual art of the Middle Ages. Think about the characteristics of each.

3. Comment on how are they alike and how are they different.

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Medieval and Renaissance art only have one similarity in both paintings were initiated in manuscript form. However, they both contrast in human figures shape and size, environment interpretation and analyses of three-dimensional drawings. According to Lewis (1964), Medieval and Renaissance values significantly varied, which generated the alteration in artistic paintings and drawings by artists of those historic times. It is clear that medieval art concentrated on realistic and accurate human impressions by putting emphasis on…………………

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