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40,000 BCE
Prehistoric art
Prehistoric act is famous because of its schematic style, simbolism and abstraction. Its main expression are cave paintings, such as some paintings found on the Caves of Altamira and some sculptures as The Venus of Willendorf. This type of art represented hunting scenes or people associated to deitys such as prehistoric gods. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
Ancient art
Ancient art can be divided into three groups depending on the main cultures of the Ancient. Roman art includes all the manifestations that were exported to all the territories of the Roman Empire. It’s inspired of the Greek and Etruscan art. The Greek art is realist and with a big perfectionist in architecture because buildings were run by masters. Egyptian art has got monumental buildings with simbolic character like pyramids. This type of art is related to the monarchy and the religion. -
Period: 476 to 1492
Medieval art
Medieval art refers to a period also known as the Middle Ages, which roughly spanned from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. It included architecture, sculpture, paintint. It shared some characteristics like iconography, Christian subject matter, bright colors, the use of precious metals, gems, and other luxurious materials. -
Period: 1000 to 1200
Romanesque art
Romanesque art was a predominant artistic style in Western Europe during the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Romanesque art was the first clearly Christian style. It was characterized both by monumental buildings. -
Period: 1150 to 1400
Gothic art
This artistic style that developed in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages, from the mid-12th century to the establishment of the Renaissance, and well into the 16th century in the places where the Gothic survived the longest. -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance art
Renaissance art, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and literature was produced during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classing learning, and a more individualistic view of man . -
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Baroque
The baroque was a period of the history in the occidental culture originated by a new form of conceive the art and differents context historic/cultures, produces works in numerous artistic fields: literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, opera, dance, theatre, etc. -
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Rococo
The Rococo art borned in French, was developed between the years 1730 and 1760. The Rococó is defined like an individualist art, antiformalist and courtier, by the artist Ronald Rizzo. -
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Neoclassical art
The neoclassicism appear in the 18th century to denominate the esthetic movement that was influenced by another movement, the Enlightenment, that was mainly represented in the philosophy. -
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Romanticism
Was an artistic, literally, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in the most areas was at its peak in the approximated period from 1800-1850 -
Impressionism
Is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. -
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Cubism
The cubism was an artistic movement developed between 1907 and 1914, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, continued by Albert Gleize and Jean Metzinger among others. It’s considered as the first avant-garde. It’s the precursor of the others European avant-gardes that were developed along the XX century. -
Surrealism
Surrealism is an artistic movement that was born in France after the Great War, and it is inspired in the psychoanalytic theories to try to represent the working of the subconscious, eliminating any type of rational control. -
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and in the United States during mid-to late-1950s. The movement is inspired in the popular and mass culture, such as advertisements, comic books and mass-produced cultural objects.
