Art History

By mrsmittelstet
  • 2500 BCE

    Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

    Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)
    Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures.
    Art/Artists: Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge
  • 653 BCE

    Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)

    Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)
    Characteristics: Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World.
    Art/Artists: Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige
  • 1550

    Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)

    Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)
    Characteristics: Rebirth of classical culture.
    Art/Artists: Ghiberti’s Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli,
    Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael

  • Baroque (1600–1750)

    Baroque (1600–1750)
    Characteristics: Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars.
    Art/Artists: Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles

  • Romanticism (1780–1850)

    Romanticism (1780–1850)
    Characteristics: The triumph of imagination and individuality.
    Art/Artists: Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin
    West

  • Impressionism (1865–1885)

    Impressionism (1865–1885)
    Characteristics: Capturing fleeting effects of natural light.
    Art/Artists: Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas

  • Realism (1848–1900)

    Realism (1848–1900)
    Characteristics: Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
    rustic painting.
    Art/Artists: Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet

  • Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)

    Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)
    Characteristics: A soft revolt against Impressionism. Art/Artists: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat

  • Cubism (1905–1920)

    Cubism (1905–1920)
    Characteristic: Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
    forms to express modern life.
    Art/Artists: Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich

  • Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)

    Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)
    Characteristics: Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting form.
    Art/Artists: Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc

  • Surrealism (1917-1966)

    Surrealism (1917-1966)
    Artists relied on their own recurring motifs arisen through their dreams and/or unconscious mind. Imagery is outlandish, perplexing, and even uncanny, as it is meant to jolt the viewer out of their comforting assumptions. Artists: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte

  • Abstract Expressionism (1940s-1950s)

    Abstract Expressionism (1940s-1950s)
    Characteristics: a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York. The Art depict abstract forms not drawn from the visible world.
    Art/Artists: Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning

  • Pop Art (1960s)

    Pop Art (1960s)
    Characteristics: Imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
    Art/Artists: Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist

  • Postmodernism (1970s)

    Postmodernism (1970s)
    Characteristics: Movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video.
    Art/Artists: Richter, Sherman, Kiefer