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30,000 BCE
Stone Age
cave painting for goddesses, fertility, and megalithic structure
Ice Age ended, New Stone Age started -
3500 BCE
Mesopotamian
warrior art, Sumerians invented writing, hammurabi wrote the code of laws, monthesim was founded. -
3100 BCE
Egyptian
Art that focus on the afterlife, pyramid and tombs painting. the bust of nefertit. upper and lower Egypt -
850 BCE
Greek and hellenistic
balance and proportions inarchitect. lonic, doric,Corinthian columns -
653 BCE
Indian, Chinese and Japanese
mediative art and Arts of the floating world. birth of Buddha and silk road open, Buddhism spread to china -
500 BCE
Roman
roman realism, the arch column, pantheon, Julia caesar assassinated -
476
Byzantine and Islamic
heavenly byzantine mosaics, Islamic architecture and amazing maze like design. birth of islam and Muslim conquest -
500
Middle Ages
celtic art, renaissance, romanesque, and gothic. Viking raids, battle of Hasting, the crusades, the black death and the 100 year war -
Nov 28, 1400
Early and High Renaissance
Rebirth of classical culture, columbus landed in the new world, Martin Luther starts reformation -
Nov 28, 1430
Venetian and Northern Renaissance
Renaissance spread to France, and the lower countries and Poland, Germany, and England. Council of Trent and Counter reformation, -
Nov 29, 1527
Mannerism
Art that breaks the rules, artifice over nature, Magellan circumnavigate the global -
Baroque
Art is a weapon in the religious war. the 30 year war between the Protestants and the catholic -
Neoclassical
Art that recaptures Greco-roman grace and grandeur. Enlightenment period and the industrial revolution -
Romanticism
the triumph of imagination and individuality, american revolution french revolution and Napolen being crowed emperor of France -
Impressions
capturing fleeting effects of natural light, unification of Germany, no detail just bold colors -
Realism
celebrating the working class and peasants. European democratic revolution of 1848 -
Post-impression
soft revolution against impression, symbols and figures used. Japan defeated Russia -
Fauvism and Expression
Harsh colors and flat surfaces, emotion distorting form, boxer rebellion, and the world War -
Cubism
pre and post World war art experiments, new forms to express modern life. Russian revolution, American Women Franchised -
Abstract Expressions
without form, post world war II,developed in New York city -
Surrealism
ridiculous art, painting dreams and exploring the unconscious, the Great Depression -
Pop Art
started in Britain,represents popular things in our life, vibrant colors
collage, comic books, and graffiti
