Art History

By zoeebrumer
  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Stone Age

    30,000 b.c.-2500 b.c. - cave painting, fertility paintings and goddesses became the new popular form
  • Period: 495 BCE to 429 BCE

    Ancient Greece and Rome

    Ancient Greek and Rome-
    Pericles acropolis, Athens (hub of the city)
    Phidias- he focused on beauty and craftsmanship
    Parthenon inspired western buildings
    Limited idea of democracy
    Fluting- vertical lines
  • Period: 327 BCE to 27 BCE

    Hellenistic period:

    -The idea of collection for social status
    -art was seen as a menial task
  • Period: 1300 to

    THE RENAISSANCE

    humanism and Leonardo divinci
    Della Pictura-
    a picture should evoke a sense or spatial and historical actuality
    a painting should have a istoria, or theme
    the particular theme should be elaborated through the appropriate sue of color
    Georgio Vasari academia del disegno
  • 1377

    First Moveable Type

    jikji- first moveable metal type- 1377 Korea
  • 1415

    Linear perspective- 1415

    brunelleschi –examined a building and painted this building. He drills a hole in painting and hold the painting up in front of him and also holds a mirror up to see where is lines are accurate and where they are wrong.
  • Period: 1440 to 1445

    Printing

    Gutenberg’s printing press- 1440 combines moveable metal type with screw → everything is becoming more accessible
    Gutenberg’s bible 1454→ mass prints it
  • Period: 1463 to

    Early Motherhood Works of Art

    madonna of loreto raphael
    Jan Van Eyck
    catherine opie - self portrait nursing 2004
    she identifies as queer
    references madonna breastfeeding her child
  • Period: to

    THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY

    -2 hours a day for life drawing
    -included the teaching of architecture, geometry, perspective
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical

    Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
    "Vanitas" peter claez

  • First Photo

    first known photograph ‘view from the window at le gras’ 1826/27 “heliography”
  • Period: to

    Realism

    Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
    rustic painting
    Manets Paintings are a great example
  • Period: to

    Cubism

    Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
    forms to express modern life
    Picasso, bocconi
  • Period: to

    Surrealism

    Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the
    unconscious
    Duchamp - 'Portrait of chess'
  • Period: to

    Postmodernism and Deconstructivism

    Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles
    -cindy sherman, frank Gehry
  • Period: to

    WeIrd ArT

    The reincarnation of saint orlan
    -made a permanent shift into famous works done by men
    stelarc
    “third ear” (2007)
    -grew his own ear on his arm using cloning

  • Feminist Movement

    late 70s-present
    “guerrilla girls” 1985
    -made anonymous, wore masks
    ‘you are my sunshine’ 2015
    -female form is central in her work
    -black empowerment
  • Period: to 1400

    MIDDLE AGES AND THE BENEDICTINE ORDER

    ending of the western and beginning of romanticism
    arts sole purpose is to honor god and top communicate the truths of the gospel
    carol- a private work space → became popular
    less interest in the arts, more interest in work. The grand notions of art disappear → decline in literacy
    guilds: unions of different kinds of crafts workers, established rules. Provided legal advice to one another
    apprentice (similar to co-op): training started around 13 or 14,