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40,000 BCE
Cave Art
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Period: 40,000 BCE to 28,000 BCE
Cave Art
Found on the wall or ceiling of caves. Usually large wild animals, tracing of human hands, or abstract patterns. Used to communicate for hunting, and praying for an abundance of prey. -
28,000 BCE
Prehistoric Period
Before written history, Visual culture was created, this includes paintings, sculptures, and architecture -
20,000 BCE
African Rock Art
Geometric and animal representations engraved and painted on stone -
2649 BCE
Pyramid Age
Single level tombs, broad square shape. After taking the form of a hill it is said either to bring back to life of the ones buried within or so the dead could walk up the stairs to join with their father -
Period: 2649 BCE to 1070 BCE
Old Kingdom
coined by archaeologists in the 19th century CE in an attempt to demarcate Egypt's long history. -
2150 BCE
First Intermediate Period
The "dark period". Rule of Egypt was divided by two powers. Memphis king held on to the vestiges of glory in which the Old Kingdom had had. Theban Kings created new artistic styles. A new clumsy and unrefined art style -
2030 BCE
Middle Kingdom
A new masterful design representing a perfect union of architecture and landscape including painted reliefs of ceremonial scenes and hieroglyphic texts -
1550 BCE
New kingdom
Many military campaigns, trade, diplomatic gifts, and tributes. Abundance of non royal art, includes statuary, relief, painting, and types of minor art -
1295 BCE
Dynasty 18
All art for this era was influenced by the temple of Mentuhotep II -
1070 BCE
Ramesside Period
Best known for its monumental structures, for examples the temple of Osiris -
600 BCE
Archaic Period
Statues of youth (Kouroi) and maidens (Korai). Marble statues, Conventional poses where the head and body can be divided equally by a central line, and legs are parted with the weight placed equally in the front and back. Many times statues are naked -
Period: 600 BCE to 323 BCE
Greek Art
the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. -
500 BCE
Classical Period
"ruled by the people" where art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and drama entered a golden age -
448 BCE
High classical period
Architecture was refined and optical illusions corrected to create the most aesthetically pleasing proportions. Started to experiment with monumentality and space -
323 BCE
Hellenistic Period
Sculptures became more naturalistic and expressive, added character, includes themes such as suffering, sleep, or old age. More vanity including people, women, children, animals, and domestic scenes -
260
Early Christian
More abstract aesthetic replaced the naturalism. This new style was hieratic, most important process was convey religious meaning. Early Christian symbols are cross and crucifix, ichthyic, alpha, omega, and mongrams -
300
Medieval Art
Generally muted colors, gothic art, highly visual. Artists broke away from the influences of the Byzantium and Romanesque art style -
1300
Renaissance Art
invention of humanism artistic development from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. -
1490
High Renaissance
painting had varried means of expressions, considered absolutely zenith of western painting, and achieved the balancing and reconciliation -
1503
Mona Lisa
A portrait that spoke status and position, generally took a long time to paint a portrait. The subject had to sit for hours to days while the painter painted the portrait -
1517
Baroque Art
Religious art had to be clear, persuasive, and powerful. It had to instruct and inspire. Artists like Caravaggio turned into a powerful and dramatic realism accentuated by bold contrasts of light and dark -
Romanticism
New literacy, musical schools, poetry from Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and William Wordsworth. Scores also made from Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Chopin -
Realism
Supported the old- age belief that art should be instructive, morally uplifting, refined, inspired by the classical tradition, a good reflection of the national culture and beauty -
Modern Art
New, contemporary, up-to-date, and technological. Technological advances such as industrialization, railroads, gas lightening, streetcars, factory systems, indoor plumbing, appliances and scientific advances. -
Early Photography
Related to technological improvements in three areas, speed, resolution, and permanence. Subjects had to sit still for up to 8 hours for one picture. George Eastman developed the dry gelatin roll film, also produced the first small inexpensive camera. -
Impressionism
Exhibitions called salons for artists to produce and sell their art were popping up. Impressionists said the paintings of this time were only impressions, and not finished in their eyes -
Picasso
Picasso's father was a drawing teacher and curator at a small measum which paved the way to Picasso's success. He has many famous paintings that have profoundly impacted the twentieth century -
Braque
All about positioning and perspectives. -
Figurative Art
Andy Warhol was the most known artist of this movement. He began to show pop art in all galleries -
Abstract Expressions
An abstract painting, considered an "action painting"
