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"Cave art" - describe any kind of man-made image on the walls, ceiling or floor of a cave or rock shelter.
In connection with Stone Age art created during the last Ice Age, between about 40,000 and 10,000 BCE
Cave art embraces five different types of art, as follows. (1) Hand prints and finger marks. (2) Abstract signs. (3) Figurative painting. (4) Rock engraving. (5) Relief sculpture. -
The ivory carving known as the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel is carved. The earliest Asian art emerges as well.
Ivory is a type of dentine - a hard, dense bony tissue which forms most of the teeth and tusks of animals - which has been used for millennia as a material for carving sculpture -
In archeology, the term "Venus Figurines" is an umbrella description relating to Stone Age statuettes of women, created during the Aurignacian or Gravettian cultures of the upper Palaeolithic
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Beginning of Perigordian culture. Derived from the earlier Mousterian, practised by Homo neanderthalensis, it employed Levallois flake-tool technology, producing serrated stone tools as well as a flint blades known as "Chatelperron points".
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Important animal & figurative carvings
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Gabarnmang charcoal drawing (carbon-dated to 26,000 BCE) in Arnhem Land.
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Gravettian art begins. Practiced in eastern, central and western Europe, the signature tool was a small pointed blade with a blunt but straight back - called a Gravette Point.
The art of the Gravettian era is characterized above all by its small scale mobiliary art -
Xianrendong Cave Pottery - the world's most ancient pottery from Jiangxi, China.
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Magdalenian art begins, the final major culture of the Upper Paleolithic, practised by Homo Sapiens across western and central Europe, as the Ice retreated northwards.
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Earliest Jomon pottery, Odaiyamamoto I site, Japan. Earliest known Japanese Art.
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The Venus of Monruz: One of the last and smallest Venus Figurines to be carved during the era of Paleolithic art
Oldest art in Switzerland. End of Paleolithic art. End of the last Ice Age. -
Mesolithic Era Begins
The Mesolithic is a transitional era between the chipped-tool, hunter-gatherer culture of the Upper Paleolithic, and the polished-tool, farming culture of the Neolithic. Went from hunting/gathering to agriculture. Start of Chinese Pottery -
Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands), stencils, paintings, Argentina, the most famous example of Mesolithic art in the Americas.
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Neolithic Era begins in Middle East and Southeast Europe
Tassili-n-Ajjer rock art, Algerian paintings and petroglyphs. -
Shigir Idol, the world's oldest surviving wood carving of a human figure.
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Beginning of Neolithic Art in China
The major form of Neolithic art was ceramic pottery. Oven-fired pottery appears in Mesopotamia where farming begins.
People settle on the banks of the River Nile. -
Goddess terracotta figurine, Catal Huyuk, Anatolia, an early example of religious art.
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Neolithic Era begins in Northern & Western Europe
A much more settled form of existence, based on farming and rearing of domesticated animals, as well as the use of polished tools.
Jade carving begins in China, as does Chinese lacquerware and silk production. -
Mesopotamian civilization begins (Iraq). The emergence of Uruk, a first city-state. First wheeled vehicles appear in Europe.
Ancient Persian art includes the intricate ceramics from Susa and Persepolis. Oldest known prehistoric bronze sculptures produced in the Maikop culture of the Russian North Caucasus -
Sumerian civilization (S. Iraq). First writing system (hieroglyphs)
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Egyptian art and civilization begin. The building of Newgrange Megalithic Tomb begins.
Sumerian civilization develops its own monumental architecture - a type of stepped pyramid called a ziggurat, built from clay-fired bricks. -
Metallurgy develops, as does Bronze Age art. The more complex copper-and-tin bronze casting techniques appear in the Indus Valley Civilization of India during the period.
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Egyptians create first wall paintings in tombs.
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Egyptians develop first painted relief sculptures.
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Egyptians develop the first seated and free-standing statues.
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Start of Egyptian Pyramids.
The Architect Hemon designs the Great Pyramid at Giza; one of the Seven Wonders of the World -
Khufu builds the Sphinx
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Start of Aegean Art in eastern Mediterranean.
The term "Aegean art" refers to a cluster of differing cultures that flourished in the area of the Aegean Sea in the eastern Mediterranean. -
First Chinese art appears, bronzes of Shang Dynasty art, as well as the earliest Calligraphy.
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Iron Age Art begins in Europe.
Dying Gaul (c.232 BCE) by Greek
Sculptor Epigonus. -
First appearance of Geometric style of Greek Pottery.
Going far beyond the circular designs of the earlier protogeometric period, geometric pottery includes some of the finest surviving works of Greek visual art. Vases were often made according to a strict system of proportions.
The Amphora [c.750 BCE]
Archaic Greek -
black-figure pottery: figures were first drawn in black silhouette, then marked with incised detail.
Terracotta column-krater -
The Parthenon
It was during 6th and 7th centuries that stone was used for Greek public buildings, especially temples. -
Dominated by two human stereotypes: the standing nude youth (kouros) and the standing draped girl (kore).
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In the history of sculpture, no period was more productive than the 150 years between 480 and 330 BCE.
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Classical Greek painting reveals a grasp of linear perspective and naturalist representation
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The period of Hellenistic art opens with the death of Alexander the Great and the incorporation of the Persian Empire into the Greek world.
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Era of Roman Art begins
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Early Christian art becomes more widespread
Jesus healing the bleeding woman, Roman catacombs, 300–350 -
Beginning of Medieval art
Ravenna, S Apollinare Nuovo, mosaic showing the Betrayal of Christ -
The most prominet feature was that it became more abstract, favoring symbolism rather than realistic representations
the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople – the image of Christ Pantocrator -
Art was used to spread religion and to bring people closer to God
Saint Mary, Joseph and the birth of Christ. Romanesque period -
Architecture was the principal means of artistic Expressions during the gothic period
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Scientific and Mathematical advances, inspired by serious study of ancient Greek and Roamn culture, became tools that artist used in their work
Christ Handing the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter -
Artist of the High Reniassance disregarded the rules of the Early Reniassance and let their feelings dicate their styles
The Creation of Adam -
In Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck
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The Triumph of the Immaculate by Paolo de Matteis
Baroque art was a dramatic and grandeur style -
characterized by soft colors and curvy lines, and depicts scenes of love, nature, amorous encounters, light-hearted entertainment, and youth to create the illusions of surprise, motion, and drama
The Bathers -
This art era is based on France under Napolean Bonaparte, who did not like the favored a more classical approach of ancient Greece and Rome
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii -
Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1830)
By the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. -
Louis Daguerre takes the first photo
Boulevard du Temple and the first photograph of human beings, taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838. -
The First of May
rapid industrial development and social and political change -
In realism art, the art was rejected both and focusedon direct experience, what they saw, pleasant, or unpleasant.
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet -
Modern Art Era begins
Honoré Daumier
The Uprising c. 1860 -
Poppy Field (Argenteuil) (1873)
Musee d'Orsay. By Claude Monet. -
They painted people and things as solid colored objects. And also realized the color of light had a tremendous effect on the color of objects.
The Gleaners (1857)
Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes.
Henri Rousseau's The Repast of the Lion -
Two Tahitian Women with Red Flowers
(1899)
In fine art, the term Post-Impressionism denotes the phase of modern art during which artists sought to progress beyond the narrow imitative style of Impressionism, -
it promulgated the idea of art and design as part of everyday life.
Art Nouveau Staircase (1893-7)
Emile Tassel House, Brussels.
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Large Bather (1921)
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris.
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The art era expressionism, the the attitude or philosophy of art rather than a particular style.
The Large Blue Horses (1911)
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis.
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Cubism art was begun in 1907 by Picasso, who was joined by Georges Braque. They used Cezanne’s ideas building up a surface with small squarish brush strokes in their art.
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1909)
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Exemplified by the geometric designs of famous New York buildings
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The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
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Migrant Mother (1936)
Nipomo, California.
Associated with interwar American art, which commented on social, economic and political conditions prevailing during the Depression era. -
Woman V (1952). Willem De Kooning
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Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950
Rothko -
Whaam! (1963) Roy Lichtenstein.
Tate Collection, London.
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