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30,000 BCE
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art
This is a cave painting of a wild animal. More than likely a animal they hunted for food. -
10,000 BCE
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art
In the cave painting they are hunting deer. They are painting a story. -
8000 BCE
Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art
The pot is drawn using dark colors probably from dirt and rock. They used that to create a design for the pot. -
3500 BCE
Early Dynastic Art
This is a sculpture of a women. You can see details on this woman's clothes and it would present style from this time period. -
3000 BCE
Sumerian Art
This picture shows Sumerian art. You can see fine detail that they used. It looks like rock was used to carve out lines. -
2800 BCE
Early Minoan Art
This painting is painted using simple colors but bright colors. It captures detail in a very simple way. -
1900 BCE
Babylonian Art
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1550 BCE
Late Minoan Art
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1500 BCE
Phoenician Art
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1353 BCE
Amarna Art
In order to carve this picture it's clear only the resources available were used. Maybe a rock was used to carve this into the wall. There is detail but it is not perfect detail as it's a carved image. -
900 BCE
Geometric Art
This represents geometric art. This sculpture was sculpted in a 3D shape. -
480 BCE
Classical Art
This is an example of Greek Art. They represented people as beautiful and exaggerating the body. You can see how much detail was but into muscle and facial structure. -
323 BCE
Hellenistic Art
This is another example of Greek Art. The idea of representing people with so much beauty and showing off the human body. -
304 BCE
Ptolemaic Dynasty Art
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238 BCE
Parthian and Sassanidic Art
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27 BCE
Early Roman Empire Art
Early Roman Empire art is similar to that of greek art. There was an emphasis on showing the human body off as beautiful using details. -
235
Late Roman Empire/Late Antique Art
Late Roman Empire art was focused on architecture and the construction of buildings such as bridges, tunnels etc. -
476
The Middle Ages
This image shows a stained glass designed that would have been found in a middle aged cathedral. -
Nov 30, 1400
The Renaissance
This painting "The Mona Lisa" is a renaissance painting. It is realistic as you can see in her smile and uses many light and a dark shades of color. -
Nov 30, 1500
The High Renaissance
During The High Renaissance the use of light and dark colors are still being used. colors are used to show clothing and detail. -
Baroque/Romanticism Art
This image is really bright with the use of color to catch your eye. This painting captures the intimacy between the man and woman representing romanticism. -
Realism Art
Realism is used to show great detail. In this picture the grass is painted so clearly it looks so real. -
Impressionism Art
This image is painted from the authors view of a night sky. Both light and dark colors are blended together to create this painting. -
Photography
This is a later picture of photography. This picture shows multiples photos taken to form a moving picture, which was an early example of film. -
Cubism Art
Cubism is used in this painting all over. The people depicted are drawn using different shapes and form. -
Abstraction Art
Abstraction art uses different sized shapes and colors to bring an image together. You can see the different size squares and rectangles in this painting and the use of solid colors red, yellow, blue and black. -
Surrealism Art
Surrealism is a painting reflecting something real. In this painting you see clocks all around which represents the meaning of time. When this painting was painted the artist wanted to express his feeling of time. -
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism uses various brush strokes, in order to reflect how the artist feels or the message they are trying to create in their art.
