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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. -
Period: to
Baroque
Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious
wars. -
Period: to
Neoclassical
Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur. -
Period: to
Romanticism
The triumph of imagination and individuality. -
Period: to
Realism
Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
rustic painting. -
Period: to
Impressionism
Capturing fleeting effects of natural light. -
Period: to
Post - Impressionism
A soft revolt against Impressionism. -
Period: to
Fauvism and Expressionism
Harsh colours and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting
form. -
Period: to
Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl
Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
forms to express modern life. -
Period: to
Dada and Surrealism
Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the
unconscious. -
Period: to
Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art
Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression
without form; popular art absorbs consumerism. -
Period: to
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism
Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles.