Art movements

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

    Stone Age

    Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structure
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 539 BCE

    Mesopotamian

    Warrior art and narration in stone relief.
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

    Egyptain

    Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting.
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Ages

    Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
  • Period: 1400 to 1550

    Early and High Renaissance

    Rebirth of classical culture.
  • Period: 1527 to 1580

    Mannerism

    Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature.
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    Baroque

    Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious
    wars.
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    Neoclassical

    Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur.
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    Romanticism

    The triumph of imagination and individuality.
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    Realism

    Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
    rustic painting.
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    Impressionism

    Capturing fleeting effects of natural light.
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    Post - Impressionism

    A soft revolt against Impressionism.
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    Fauvism and Expressionism

    Harsh colours and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting
    form.
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    Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl

    Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
    forms to express modern life.
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    Dada and Surrealism

    Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the
    unconscious.
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    Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art

    Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression
    without form; popular art absorbs consumerism.
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    Postmodernism and Deconstructivism

    Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles.