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Period: 30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE
Stone Age
Unique characteristics:
megalithic structures
fertility goddesses
cave paintings Influence on subsequent artists: the first recorded art Artists associated with this movement:
Stone henge
Lascaux Cave Painting
Woman of Willendorf Cultural context: First permanent settlements Global cultural context: end of ice age Associated science context: -
Period: 3500 BCE to 563 BCE
Mesopotamian
Unique characteristics: warrior art and narration in stone Influence on subsequent artists: Egyptian Artists associated with this movement:
Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi’s Code Cultural context:
Hammurabi writes his law code Abraham founds monotheism
Global cultural context: Sumerians invent writing -
Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE
egyptian
Narmer unites Upper/Lower Egypt (3100 b.c.); Rameses II battles the Hittites (1274 b.c.); Cleopatra dies (30 b.c.) Unique characteristics: Art has an afterlife focus. Painted inside pyramids and tombs
Artists associated with this movement: imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti
Cultural context: Cleopatra dies
Global cultural context: Upper\lower egypt are united -
Period: 1917 BCE to 1950 BCE
Dada and Surrealism
Unique characteristics: Unusual or ridiculous art, exploring the unconscious
Influence on subsequent artists: Made way for alternative views on art
Artists associated with this movement: Duchamp, Darli, de chirico
Cultural context: The great depression
Global cultural context: After world war 1
Associated science context: atomic bombs dropped in japan (1945) causing devastation -
Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE
Greek and Hellenistic
Unique characteristics: Greek idealism
Artists associated with this movement: Parthenon, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles, Myron
Cultural context: Peloponnesian Wars -
Period: 500 to Oct 21, 1400
middle ages
Unique characteristics: celtic aer, romanesque themes, gothic
Artists associated with this movement: St. Sernin, Notre Dam, Giotto
Cultural context: Viking raids, Battle of hastings
Global cultural context: Hundred year's war
Associated science context: The plague -
Period: to
Cubism
Unique characteristics: Experimental art, new forms to express modern life
Influence on subsequent artists: changed the way people made art
Artists associated with this movement: Picasso, Boccioni, Serverini
Cultural context: American women franchised, suffragettes
Global cultural context: russian revolution -
Period: to
pop art
• Unique characteristics: uses every day objects in an artistic way such as marmite • Influence on subsequent artists: Inspires home deco and clothing due to bright colours • Artists associated with this movement:
David Hockney
Jeff Koons
Andy Warhol • Cultural context: originated in Britain in the late 1950's • Global cultural context: Post war art • Associated science context: Screen printing -
Period: to
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism
Unique characteristics: Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles to create an image
Artists associated with this movement: Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman.
Cultural context: Communism collapses
influence on subsequent artists: start of punk and alternative art