History of Art

  • Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art
    30,000 BCE

    Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art

    This is a cave painting of a wild animal. More than likely a animal they hunted for food.
  • Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art
    10,000 BCE

    Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art

    In the cave painting they are hunting deer. They are painting a story.
  • Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art
    8000 BCE

    Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art

    The pot is drawn using dark colors probably from dirt and rock. They used that to create a design for the pot.
  • Early Dynastic Art
    3500 BCE

    Early Dynastic Art

    This is a sculpture of a women. You can see details on this woman's clothes and it would present style from this time period.
  • Sumerian Art
    3000 BCE

    Sumerian Art

    This picture shows Sumerian art. You can see fine detail that they used. It looks like rock was used to carve out lines.
  • Early Minoan Art
    2800 BCE

    Early Minoan Art

    This painting is painted using simple colors but bright colors. It captures detail in a very simple way.
  • Babylonian Art
    1900 BCE

    Babylonian Art

  • Late Minoan Art
    1550 BCE

    Late Minoan Art

  • Phoenician Art
    1500 BCE

    Phoenician Art

  • Amarna Art
    1353 BCE

    Amarna Art

    In order to carve this picture it's clear only the resources available were used. Maybe a rock was used to carve this into the wall. There is detail but it is not perfect detail as it's a carved image.
  • Geometric Art
    900 BCE

    Geometric Art

    This represents geometric art. This sculpture was sculpted in a 3D shape.
  • Classical Art
    480 BCE

    Classical Art

    This is an example of Greek Art. They represented people as beautiful and exaggerating the body. You can see how much detail was but into muscle and facial structure.
  • Hellenistic Art
    323 BCE

    Hellenistic Art

    This is another example of Greek Art. The idea of representing people with so much beauty and showing off the human body.
  • Ptolemaic Dynasty Art
    304 BCE

    Ptolemaic Dynasty Art

  • Parthian and Sassanidic Art
    238 BCE

    Parthian and Sassanidic Art

  • Early Roman Empire Art
    27 BCE

    Early Roman Empire Art

    Early Roman Empire art is similar to that of greek art. There was an emphasis on showing the human body off as beautiful using details.
  • Late Roman Empire/Late Antique Art
    235

    Late Roman Empire/Late Antique Art

    Late Roman Empire art was focused on architecture and the construction of buildings such as bridges, tunnels etc.
  • The Middle Ages
    476

    The Middle Ages

    This image shows a stained glass designed that would have been found in a middle aged cathedral.
  • The Renaissance
    Nov 30, 1400

    The Renaissance

    This painting "The Mona Lisa" is a renaissance painting. It is realistic as you can see in her smile and uses many light and a dark shades of color.
  • The High Renaissance
    Nov 30, 1500

    The High Renaissance

    During The High Renaissance the use of light and dark colors are still being used. colors are used to show clothing and detail.
  • Baroque/Romanticism Art

    Baroque/Romanticism Art

    This image is really bright with the use of color to catch your eye. This painting captures the intimacy between the man and woman representing romanticism.
  • Realism Art

    Realism Art

    Realism is used to show great detail. In this picture the grass is painted so clearly it looks so real.
  • Impressionism Art

    Impressionism Art

    This image is painted from the authors view of a night sky. Both light and dark colors are blended together to create this painting.
  • Photography

    Photography

    This is a later picture of photography. This picture shows multiples photos taken to form a moving picture, which was an early example of film.
  • Cubism Art

    Cubism Art

    Cubism is used in this painting all over. The people depicted are drawn using different shapes and form.
  • Abstraction Art

    Abstraction Art

    Abstraction art uses different sized shapes and colors to bring an image together. You can see the different size squares and rectangles in this painting and the use of solid colors red, yellow, blue and black.
  • Surrealism Art

    Surrealism Art

    Surrealism is a painting reflecting something real. In this painting you see clocks all around which represents the meaning of time. When this painting was painted the artist wanted to express his feeling of time.
  • Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism uses various brush strokes, in order to reflect how the artist feels or the message they are trying to create in their art.