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500 BCE
Global Prehistory
-Animal figures dominate usually with a dark outline or as a silhoutte
-Humans usually represented as sticks figures or silhouttes -
476 BCE
Ancient Rome
-Roman Art comprises of architecture, sculpture, and mosaic works -
350 BCE
Ancient Near East
-Consists mostly of artifacts
-That time in history the ¨artist¨ in that region mimicked the Egyptians in their style and as a people. -
400
Early Christian
-References to the bible -
1450
Medieval
-Art in two dimensions
-Illuminated art -
1453
Byzantine
-Comprises the body of Christian Greek artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire -
1475
Islamic
-It comprises both religious and secular art forms -
1580
Mannersim
-Hyper-idealization
-Distorted human forms
-Staged and awkward movement -
Renaissance
-A reverent revival of Classical Greek/Roman art forms and styles;
-A faith in the nobility of Man;
-The mastery of illusionistic painting techniques -
Baroque
-exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama -
Rococo
-Elaborate ornamentation, asymmetrical values, pastel color palette, and curved or serpentine lines. -
Neoclasic
-Inspired from the mythical figures -
Romanticism
-Art focused on emotions, feelings, and moods of all kinds -
Impressionism
- Relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities
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Realism
-Contemporary life images -
Post Impressionism
-Emphasize geometric forms, distort forms for an expressive effect and use unnatural and seemingly random colors. -
Expressionism
-Tried to convey emotion and meaning rather than reality. -
Surrealism
-Dream-like scenes and symbolic images.
-Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions. -
Contemporary
-Dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition
