Art History timeline Brenna Ryder

  • Cave Art
    40,000 BCE

    Cave Art

  • 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.
  • Prehistoric Period
    28,000 BCE

    Prehistoric Period

    Before written history, Visual culture was created, this includes paintings, sculptures, and architecture
  • African Rock Art
    20,000 BCE

    African Rock Art

    Geometric and animal representations engraved and painted on stone
  • Pyramid Age
    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.
  • First Intermediate Period
    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
  • Middle Kingdom
    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
  • New kingdom
    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
  • Dynasty 18
    1295 BCE

    Dynasty 18

    All art for this era was influenced by the temple of Mentuhotep II
  • Ramesside Period
    1070 BCE

    Ramesside Period

    Best known for its monumental structures, for examples the temple of Osiris
  • Archaic Period
    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.
  • Classical Period
    500 BCE

    Classical Period

    "ruled by the people" where art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and drama entered a golden age
  • High classical period
    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
  • Hellenistic Period
    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
  • Early Christian
    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
  • Medieval Art
    300

    Medieval Art

    Generally muted colors, gothic art, highly visual. Artists broke away from the influences of the Byzantium and Romanesque art style
  • Renaissance Art
    1300

    Renaissance Art

    invention of humanism artistic development from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
  • High Renaissance
    1490

    High Renaissance

    painting had varried means of expressions, considered absolutely zenith of western painting, and achieved the balancing and reconciliation
  • Mona Lisa
    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
  • Baroque Art
    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

    Romanticism

    New literacy, musical schools, poetry from Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and William Wordsworth. Scores also made from Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Chopin
  • Realism

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Braque

    All about positioning and perspectives.
  • Figurative Art

    Figurative Art

    Andy Warhol was the most known artist of this movement. He began to show pop art in all galleries
  • Abstract Expressions

    Abstract Expressions

    An abstract painting, considered an "action painting"