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Period: 30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE
Stone Age
Focused on cave art and cave paintings. Imagery often depicted God/Goddesses, Hunting, and Fertility -
Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE
Egyptian
Focused on the afterlife. Contained Pyramids at the main architecture, did have some forms of paintings within their tombs. -
Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE
Greek
Concept of Idealism arose. Balance, proportion, and perfection were at the roots of art. New forms in architecture were developed -
Period: 500 to 1400
Middle Ages
Celtic and Gothic art grew more popular. -
Period: 1400 to 1550
Early & High Renaissance
A rebirth -
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Baroque
A flourish of God. Art was used as a weapon in the art wars -
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Romanticism
Captures imagination and individually of the artist -
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Realism
Celebrates the real working class person; peasants -
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Impressionism
captures natural light and elements within the art piece -
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Post-Impressionism
A revolt against the impressionistic period -
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Expressionism
Distorted forms, strong colors, emotional effects were added to evoke a mood -
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Cubism
Helped bring European art (painting and sculpture) towards a more western and modern approach -
Period: to
Surrealism
Wanted to release creativity of the unconscious -
Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory. It is an oil paint on canvas painting with the use of symbolism within it. -
Period: to
Pop Art
Incorporated popular cultural elements and ideas into art -
Andy Warhol
Gold Marilyn Monroe. After her death in 1962, Warhol plays on the idea of an Icon by placing Monroe's face upon a golden background reminiscent of a divine figure -
Roy Lichtenstein
Whaam! is a comic style piece done through oil and acrylic paint on canvas. It portrays action and fighting but left the message up to whoever was viewing it. It was influential yet impersonal -
David Hockney
Man in shower in Beverly Hills. Hockney loved movement in art especially moving water (showers, sprinklers, pools). The piece is very flat because this was before he experimented with textures in his art. -
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Photorealism
Artist projection of a photograph onto a different medium. Ex. A canvas -
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Contemporary
Globally influenced, culturally diverse, advancing with technology. Dynamic use of methods, styles, techniques, mediums, and themes.
