Art History Timeline

  • 1323 BCE

    Tutankhamun's Mask

    Tutankhamun's Mask
    Death masks have been common for a very long time believed to strengthen the spirit of the mummy made of gold and gems, stylized features of the ruler Howard Carter found the tomb in 1922
  • Period: 990 BCE to 1051

    Movable Type (Ceramic)

    Bi Sheng - N. Song Dynasty
    Clay/Ceramic
    later replaced by wood type
  • 450 BCE

    Pericles and Plutarch

    Pericles and Plutarch
    Pericles at the head of new unified Greece - Acropolis - Plutarch defines that people want beauty and to rebuild better.
  • 220 BCE

    Woodblock Printing - First Happening

    Woodblock Printing - First Happening
  • 190

    Hadrian's Villa

    Hadrian's Villa
    @ Trivoli of Pergamon "unswept house" or "unswept floor"
    Food=Technology
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Middle Ages

    Education in decline and christianity takes over. Decline in literacy also apprenticeships and guilds begin - unions establish laws
  • 700

    Codex Amiatinus

    Portrait of Ezra from the Codex Amiatnus
  • 1066

    Bayeux Tapestry

    Bayeux Tapestry
    First storytelling and major artwork done by women. Almost 230ft long.
  • 1285

    Duccio

    Duccio
    Introduces a better sense of perspective than his predecessors, but it still had flaws that were corrected later by future artists.
  • Period: 1314 to 1327

    Giotto

    Giotto - has a better sense of perspective than Duccio as can be seen in his Madonna and Child
  • 1338

    Lorenzetti

    Lorenzetti - italian master - does not have a great sense of perspective
  • 1377

    Movable Metal Type

    Jikji Korea - one of the first documents with movable metal type
  • 1390

    The Craftsman's Handbook

  • 1400

    Da Vinci

    Da Vinci was also thinking about color “of several colors all equal white will look the whitest on the darkest background”
  • 1400

    Tacuinum Sanitatis

  • 1415

    Brunelleschi

    Brunelleschi - Linear Perspective is attributed to him - lenses prisms and mirrors are important.
  • 1425

    Masaccio - Holy Trinity

    Masaccio - Holy Trinity
    Masaccio was the first really successful perspective painter. The viewer can perceive real volume in his works.
  • 1434

    Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding

    Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding
    Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding - oil on oak - huge symbolism in this work - northern.
  • 1434

    Emerald Buddha

    Thailand
  • 1435

    Alberti’s On painting

    Establishes that there are four true colors - Red Blue Grey and Green. - He doesn’t completely understand white and black. All from observation.
  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenburg's Printing Press

    use screw press
    more copies are available
    1454 - gutenburg bible - over 150 copies produced
  • 1454

    Gutenburg Bible

    over 150 copies produced - impressive because done with movable type
  • 1480

    Carlo Crivelli

    Tempra and gold on wood
    not so popular
    cucumberates (melon and Cucumber)
    -Religious and fruit is symbolic
    -master of own shop
  • 1540

    "Design"

    The word "Design" is from the 1540's - mark out, devise, choose, designate.
  • 1547

    /le Transi de Rene de Chalon

    ligier Richier
  • 1562

    The Triumph of Death

    The Triumph of Death
    pieter bruegel the elder
  • 1563

    Giuseppe Arcimboldo

    Giuseppe Arcimboldo
    Vegtables in a bowl or the garden
    the four seasons
  • 1567

    Pieter Bruegel the Elder

    "The Peasant Wedding'
    Comical
    Grain Based Economy
  • Period: to

    Juan Sanchez Coten

    Still life with Quince and Cabbage and melon and cucumber
  • Frans Snyders

    still life with dead game, fruits, vegtables in market
    flemish 1579-1657
  • Judith Slaying Holofernes

    Judith Slaying Holofernes
    Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Vanitas Still Life with Self Portrait

    Pieter Claesz
  • Still Life, oil on wood

    Willem Claesz Heda
  • Period: to

    Sir Isaac Newton

    Created one of the first color wheels. - used prisms to understand the science behind light and color. - Established that Red, Yellow and Blue are the primary colors - same as they are today.
  • Deathbed portrait of Christian IV, King of Denmark

    Berent Hilwaetz
  • Period: to

    vermeer

    milkmaid
    painter of light
  • Opticks

    • Opticks
      • Beginning of understanding the science behind light and color
      • Red Yellow Blue - Newton figures out RYB
  • Palace of Versailles

    Palace of Versailles
  • Period: to

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Poet, his concern is more about the psychological effects of color, how colors impact your brain and emotional state, believed darkness was not an absence of light, one of the first people to research after image and optical illusions - speaks to bauhaus color theorists.
  • E-L Boulee Library

    Etienne-Louis Boulee
  • Period: to

    Louis Daguerre

    Boulevard du Temple - 1838
    First kinda developing film.
    First photo of a human (shoeshine man)
  • The Death of Marat

    The Death of Marat
    Jacques Louis David
  • Period: to

    Henry Fox Talbot

    • discovered paper as an option for recording an image - discovered translucent negative photosensitive paper "calotypes"
  • house of death

    house of death
    wiliiam blake
  • The Raft of the Medusa

    Theodore Gericault
  • First Known Photograph

    First Known Photograph
    Joseph Nicephore Niece - Heliography
    View from window at Le Gras
    Exposure took a few Days
  • Michel Chevreul

    combining lightness and darkness with color - color globe vs color wheel - after image - worked at a yarn factory.
  • Roger Fenton

    Valley of the Shadow of Death
    From Korean War
  • Olympia

    Olympia
    Edouard Manet
  • Manet and the beginning of Impressionist movement

    brushstrokes become looser and work becomes less representational.
  • The Harvest of Death

    The Harvest of Death
    Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg. Timothy H. O'Sullivan
  • Woman with Parrot

    Woman with Parrot
    Gustave Courbet
  • Impressionism

    Pissaro - 1872
    Monet - Rouen Cathedral - 1892
  • The Gross Clinic

    Thomas Eakins
  • Horse Running

    First Film Ever - prove that horses hooves do come off the ground when they gallop.
  • Ogden Rood

    • modern chromatics - focused on getting these ideas about color a little more parceled - really influential because he divided color into three constants
  • Ogden Rood

    modern chromatics - focused on getting these ideas about color a little more parceled - really influential because he divided color into three constants
  • L'Inconnue de la Seine

  • The Sick Husband

    Vassily Maksimov
    "Icon Corner" - located so that it is visible when you first enter the house
  • Bar at the Follie Bergere

    Bar at the Follie Bergere
    Edouard Manet
  • the potato eaters

    the potato eaters
    van gough - dark
  • Period: to

    Le Corbusier

    Architect and first master planner (Chandigarh)
  • They Did Not Expect Him

    Repin
  • Period: to

    Josef Albers

    Studied at Bauhaus and the Black Mountain College. He was a german born American who focuses on the interaction of color - wrote a book at yale.
  • Period: to

    Man Ray

    Play around with double exposure
  • Claude Monet

    Claude Monet
    Rouen Cathedral - LIGHT
  • Period: to

    Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

    at the moulin rouge
    drink eat and paint
  • The basket of apples

    The basket of apples
    cezanne - interesting perspective
  • Trip to the Moon - Film

    First longer film - actually done in color and each slide had to be hand painted. Directed by Georges Méliès. Shot in Studio.
  • Woman with Dead Child

    Kathe Kollwitz
  • Albert Henry Munsell

    Albert Henry Munsell
    Color Tree - hue, value, chroma
  • He That is Without Sin

    He That is Without Sin
    Polenov
  • Death and the Maiden

    Death and the Maiden
    Marianne Stokes
  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    Wassily Kandinsky
  • James Ensor

    James Ensor
    the banquet of the starved
    or
    comical repast
    similar to the last supper
  • 0.10 Exhibition

    Suprematist Exhibition
  • Marcel Duchamp

    Marcel Duchamp
    Fountain - urinal on end - ART
  • Portrait of Mina Loy

    Portrait of Mina Loy
    Man Ray
  • Marlene

    Hannah Hoch
  • Monument to the Third International

    Monument to the Third International
    Vladimir Tatlin
  • Rayograph

    Rayograph
    The Kiss
  • The treachery of images

    Rene Magritte
  • F.T. Marietti and Fillia

    the futurist cookbook
    food and futurism - questioned lots
    write a lot about themselves
  • Period: to

    Gerhard Richter

    Uses a combination of adding and scraping away paint on his canvases. His paintings do what they want - he is just the one facilitating that process. He doesn’t like the works he completely understands. He was originally trained in realism. He luv dat grei.
  • Walter Benjamin

    Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Artwork independent from copy
    discuss authenticity
  • Meret Oppenheim

    Meret Oppenheim
    The Luncheon in Fur
    one of first women
  • Kathe Kollwitz, From Series, Death

  • Haus der Kunst

    Haus der Kunst
    Onee of Boulee's only surviving buildings
  • Olympia

    Leni Riefenstahl, First Olympic documentary
  • The Two Fridas

    The Two Fridas
    Frida Kahlo
  • Norman Rockwell

    Freedom from Want
    FDR speech - 4wants/freedoms (liked this)
  • Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

    Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
    Salvador Dali
  • Period: to

    Anish Kapoor

    Vanta Black (bought all the rights to it) - also does some AWESOME work. Including the Bean in Chicago.
  • Pantone, America

    Pantone, America
    commercial printing company, systemization, standardizes color, tried to streamline color for industry
  • Daniel Spoerri

    Prose poems
    snare pictures
    art and restaurant and cookbooks
    table to wall
    Kichkas Breakfast (1964)
  • Anthropometry of the Blue Period

    Yves Klein
  • Period: to

    Dieter Roth

    Literaturwurst
  • Andy Warhol soup

    Andy Warhol soup
    Campbells Soup Cans - mass produced
  • Claes Oldenburg - Floor Burger

    Used food to talk about conversation btwn painting and sculpture
  • Allison Knowles

    make a salad
    preformance piece
  • Twelve Electric Chairs

    Twelve Electric Chairs
    Andy Warhol, acrylic and silk-screen on canvas
  • Marcel Broodthaers

    Triomphe de Moules 1 (Mussels Casserole)
  • One and Three Chairs

    Joseph Kosuth
  • Period: to

    On Kawara Today

    Each painting is just the date, referencing something important that happened on that day.
  • Fall I, Los Angelas

    Bas Jan Ader
  • Fall 2, Amsterdam

    Bas Jan Ader
  • Period: to

    FOOD

    Soho NY - Carol Goodden, Tina Girouard, Gordon Matta Clarke
    Restaurant
  • Interior Scroll

    Performance art by Carolee Schneeman
  • In Search of the Miraculous

    In Search of the Miraculous
    Bas Jan Ader,
  • Silueta Series

    Ana Mendieta
  • House #3

    Francesca Woodman, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Immersion (Piss Christ)

    Andres Serrano
  • A Fire In My Belly

    David Wajnarawicz
    video and sound
    4 minutes
  • Portrit (Fulago)

    Yasumasa Morimura
  • Stereo Styles

    Stereo Styles
    Lorna Simpson
  • Bismullah

    Rasheed Araeen
  • Just Seeds

    Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social. environmental, and political engagement.
  • Cornered

    Cornered
    Adrian Piper
  • Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death

    Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death
    Keith Haring
  • Buddha Statue of Hyderabad

    India
  • Picasso and Frederick of Hollywood

    Nancy Spero
  • Felix Gonzalez Torres

    untitled - portrait of ross in LA
    175lbs of hard candy represent weight of his lover
    share death with the public
  • Monywa Buddhas

    Burma
    Reclining Buddha is 90 meters long - one of the largest Buddhas in the world
    Dressed in a gold robe
    body itself is a building
  • Rikrit Travanje

    untitled (FREE)
    food and curry cooked for all that come to gallery
    add taste into how to process artwork
    bring people together
    pad thai
  • The Temple of All Religions

    Ildar Khanov
    Kazan, Russia
  • Rudolf Stingel - Untitled

    cast urethane rubber
    18 x 21 x 9
  • Faceless Women of Allah

    Sherin Neshat
  • Guarded Conditions

    Guarded Conditions
    Lorna Simpson
  • Electronic Superhighway

    Electronic Superhighway
    Nam June Paik
    also - 1976 TV Buddah - watch itself on live feed
  • Sophie Calle

    the chromatic diet
    a different color for the different days of the week
  • Stern

    Marlene Dumas
  • The Green Line

    Francis Alys - walked from a gallery, around the city, and then back to the gallery with a can of paint with a hole cut in it
  • The Giant 2

    The Giant 2
    david altmejd
  • Shibboleth

    Doris Salcedo, concrete and metal, 548 feet long
  • Winter Solstice 2012

    dinner party
  • No Seconds

    Henry Hargreaves
  • Nicole Eisenman

    Nicole Eisenman
    Sunday Night Dinner
  • Standing Man

    Erdem Gunduz
  • Wiliam Pope L.

    Claim - Always confusing
  • Kara Walker - Sugar Baby

    Kara Walker - Sugar Baby
    "A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby"
    commenting on slavery and the torture the African Americans and Africans went through.
  • CanoeKeneJaguarPataLampLight

    Ernesto Neto