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==Art== | ==Art== | ||
The history of Urcean visual art is part of Levantine painting history. [[Levantia|Levantine art]] was influenced by earlier [[Adonerum|Adonerii]] civilization and can in part be taken as a descendant thereof. However, Levantine painting does have important unique characteristics. Such painting can be grouped into 4 main "styles" or periods, and may contain the first examples of trompe-l'œil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape. | The history of Urcean visual art is part of Levantine painting history. [[Levantia|Levantine art]] was influenced by earlier [[Adonerum|Adonerii]] civilization and can in part be taken as a descendant thereof. However, Levantine painting does have important unique characteristics. Such painting can be grouped into 4 main "styles" or periods, and may contain the first examples of trompe-l'œil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape. | ||
Panel painting became more common during the Levanesque period, under the heavy influence of [[Istroyan]] icons. Towards the middle of the 13th century, Medieval art and Gothic painting became more realistic, with the beginnings of interest in the depiction of volume and perspective in Urcea. From then on, the treatment of composition by the best painters also became much more free and innovative. Despite later adaptation of theme and subject, realistic painting has remained a popular form of painted art since the medieval period. Urcean art is centered around technical and realistic execution, retaining form while the content and how it is depicted has become more diverse. | |||
===Baroque=== | |||
Panel painting became more common during the Levanesque period, under the heavy influence of [[Istroyan]] icons. Towards the middle of the 13th century, Medieval art and Gothic painting became more realistic, with the beginnings of interest in the depiction of volume and perspective in Urcea. From then on, the treatment of composition by the best painters also became much more free and innovative. Despite later | [[File:Rembrandt Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee.jpg|150px|right|thumb|''The Storm on the Sea of Galilee'' (1633) is among the most famous and impressively executed paintings from the [[Urcea]]n Baroque period.]] | ||
Initially serving imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Urcean painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class. From the Middle Ages through the Renaissance painters worked for the church and a wealthy aristocracy. Beginning with the Baroque era, artists received private commissions from a more educated and prosperous middle class. These changes occurred in the contest of the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] victory following the [[Great Confessional War]] and rejuvenation of Catholic art and architecture as the aesthetic component of the {{wp|Counter Reformation}}. Accordingly, the demand for art across most of Urcean society was greatly enhanced during this period, leading to additional developments over time. | |||
===Romanticism=== | ===Romanticism=== | ||
[[File:Cole Thomas Expulsion from the Garden of Eden 1828.jpg|150px|left|thumb|''Expulsion from the Garden of Eden'' (1828) by [[Thomas Comhale]], Urcea's foremost Romantic painter.]] | |||
Art in Urcea continued to develop out of purely theological and patronage-based systems. The idea of "art for art's sake" began to find expression in the work of the Romantic painters, the most famous of which was [[Thomas Comhale]], whose paintings of [[Ionian Highlands]] and scenes in the eastern [[The Valley (Urcea)|Urcean valley]] were embraced as a "uniquely Urcean artistic school" during the period of the [[Recess of the Julii]] and [[Aedanicad]]. The Romantic art style remained popular in Urcea long after it had been supplanted elsewhere and it was valued as the "art of the common people and their inheritance in the land of Urcea", as Aedanicus VIII put it in 1863. Urcean Romanticism heavily featured both landscapes and historical scenes in addition to Biblical and pseudo-historical scenes, especially in the well known The Course of Empire series of paintings by Comhale which depict the rise and fall of a classic Latinic civilization. During the 19th century commercial galleries became established and continued to provide patronage in the 20th century. The Neo-Romantics resumed this style and genre of art following the victory of Urcea in the [[Second Great War]], peaking in the early 1950s. | |||
===Skepticism=== | ===Skepticism=== | ||
[[File:IndustrialSkepArt.jpg|150px|right|thumb|''Progress, or the Grand Invention'' (1922) is typical and the most well known painting of the skeptical style.]] | |||
In the early 20th century, Romantic and realistic scenes were replaced by artists with the "skeptical" style. This style is defined by semi-surreal scenes with otherwise identifable objects which includes a hidden criticism of contemporary society which is intentionally not evidently apparent by a plain viewing of the art. The Urcean skeptical style, which flourished between the [[First Great War]] and [[Second Great War]] was viewed by contemporaries as sophisticated and esoteric, while it was popularly and critically scorned as elitist and complex for its own sake. Due to the period in which it is popuoar, many of the famous skeptical works are veiled critiques at life in Urcea during the [[History of Urcea (1902-1955)|Restoration period]]. | In the early 20th century, Romantic and realistic scenes were replaced by artists with the "skeptical" style. This style is defined by semi-surreal scenes with otherwise identifable objects which includes a hidden criticism of contemporary society which is intentionally not evidently apparent by a plain viewing of the art. The Urcean skeptical style, which flourished between the [[First Great War]] and [[Second Great War]] was viewed by contemporaries as sophisticated and esoteric, while it was popularly and critically scorned as elitist and complex for its own sake. Due to the period in which it is popuoar, many of the famous skeptical works are veiled critiques at life in Urcea during the [[History of Urcea (1902-1955)|Restoration period]]. | ||
===Factual surrealism=== | ===Factual surrealism=== | ||
Factual surrealism is a style of art which depicts surreal abstractions of commonly accepted beliefs and orthodox teachings of the [[Catholic Church]], the preeminent social institution in Urcea. It emerged in the late 20th century. | [[File:AssumptionArt.jpeg|150px|left|thumb|''Munificentissimus Deus'' (2006) depicts the {{wp|Assumption of Mary}} and is common of the factual surrealist style.]] | ||
Factual surrealism is a style of art which depicts surreal abstractions of commonly accepted beliefs and orthodox teachings of the [[Catholic Church]], the preeminent social institution in Urcea. It depicts religious and historical scenes related to scripture or Urcean history, though many of the historical paintings are imbued with historic meaning. The factual surrealist style is intended, though with technical precision, to immerse the viewer in the "sense and glory" of the particular subject. Most artists of this style say they seek to capture the "perfect otherness" of the divine in their work. | |||
This style emerged in the late 20th century, developing out of a revival of the skeptical style of depiction but replacing the esoteric and secret meaning with more traditional themes and readily apparent meanings. One of the most famous contemporary Urcean artists, Téodóir Ludovictor, described the style as "the appearance of the Skeptical with the soul of the Baroque". Factual surrealism is conceived by many art critics as a summation of Urcean art throughout history, blending the topics of the Baroque period, the color, lighting, and technical execution of the Romantic period, and the uncertain form of the skeptical period. | |||
==Architecture== | ==Architecture== | ||