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Period: 40,000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Prehistoric Art
CHARACTERISTICS
-Rock carvings, pictorial imagery, sculptures, and stone arrangements FAMOUS WORKS
-The Paleolithic era -
Period: 30,000 BCE to 400
Ancient Art
CHARACTERISTICS
Religious and symbolic imagery, decorations for utilitarian objects, mythological stories FAMOUS WORKS
-Code of Hammurabi, 1754 B.C -
2500 BCE
Maikop Gold Bull
PREHISTORIC ART
Painter: Maikop Culture
Discovered by: archeologists
Lcoation:? -
1750 BCE
Code of Hammurabi
ANCIENT ART
created by: King Hammurabi of Babylon
medium: Greywacke or Graywacke
Location: The Louvre -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
CHARACTERISTICS
-Natural elements, individualism, realism, attention-to-detail, precision of human anatomy FAMOUS WORKS
-Sandro Botticelli
The Adoration of the Magi, 1475 - 1476
-Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper, 1492 - 1498
-Michelangelo
Pietà, 1498 - 1499 -
1503
Mona Lisa
RENAISSANCE ART
Painter: Leonardo da Vinci
Medium: Oil on poplar panel
Location: Louvre Museum -
Period: 1527 to 1580
Mannerism
CHARACTERISTICS
Stylized features, exaggerated details, decorative elements FAMOUS WORKS
-Paolo Veronese
The Wedding at Cana, 1563
-Pontormo
Carmignano Visitation, 1528
-Titian
Allegory of Prudence, 1570 -
1580
The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest
MANNERISM
Painter: El Greco
Medium: Oil paint
Location: Museo Nacional del Prado -
Period: to
Romanticism
CHARACTERISTICS
-Imaginative elements, focus on passion, emotion, and observing the senses FAMOUS WORKS
-Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare, 1781
-Francisco Goya
Third of May 1808, 1814
-Thomas Cole
The Titan’s Goblet, 1833 -
The Desperate Man
ROMANTICISM
Painter: Gustave Courbet
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Private collection -
Period: to
Realism
CHARACTERISTICS
-Detailed depictions of everyday life FAMOUS WORKS
-Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners, 1857
-Gustave Courbet
Women with a Parrot, 1866 -
Period: to
Post-Impressionism
CHARACTERISTICS
Subjective visions, symbolism, abstraction FAMOUS WORKS
-Vincent van Gogh
The Starry Night, 1889
-Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1886 -
The Starry Night
POST-IMPRESSIONISM ART
painter: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: The Museum of Modern Art -
Taking a Snow Town
REALISM
Painter: Vasily Surikov
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: The State Russian Museum -
The Dance of Life
EXPRESSIONISM ART
painter: Edvard Munch
medium: Oil paint
Location: National Gallery -
Period: to
Expressionism
CHARACTERISTICS
Distortion of form, strong use of colors FAMOUS WORKS
Edvard Munch
The Dance of Life, 1900
Wassily Kandinsky
The Blue Rider, 1903 -
Early Sunday Morning
REALISM
Painting by American artist Edward Hopper
Medium: oil paint, canvas
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art -
Zebra
OP ART
painter: Victor Vasarely
Genre: Animal Painting
Location:? -
Period: to
Op Art
CHARACTERISTICS
Use of colors, patterns, shapes, and contrast to create images that appeared to be moving or blurring FAMOUS WORKS
Bridget Riley
Blaze, 1964 -
Period: to
Minimalism
CHARACTERISTICS
A focus on exactly what the art portrays, aside from outside realities and emotions FAMOUS WORKS
-Sol LeWitt
Four-Sided Pyramid, 1965
-Frank Stella
Harran II, 1967
-Agnes Martin
This Rain, 1960 -
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain
MINIMALISM
created by: Bruce Nauman
Genre: Site-specific art
Location: ?
