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Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE
greek and hellenistic
Heavy focus on balance, perfect proportions, and architectural orders. -
Period: 500 BCE to 476
Roman
Realism, practical, and down to earth -
190 BCE
The Unswept Floor
The Unswept Floor is a mosaic piece in Rome that depicts the leftovers from a feast that have been left on the floor. The piece was used to comment on waste and consumption, especially that of the wealthy and elite people. -
Period: 500 to 1400
The Middle Ages
Celtic art, romanesque, gothic -
1377
Jikji
The Jikji is a Korean Buddhist document and is also the first known book to use moveable metal type -
Period: 1386 to 1466
Donatello
Donatello was a well-known sculpture born in Florence, Italy widely regarded as the second best sculpture to Michelangelo. -
1400
Emerald Buddha
The Emerald Buddha is located in Bangkok, Thailand in the Wat Phra Kaew. The emerald Buddha is a highly revered buddha image that was carved from a block of jade. the Emerald Buddha has seasonal costumes that are changed out ceremonially three times a year. -
Period: 1400 to 1550
Early and High Renaissance
The rebirth of classical culture -
1415
Linear Perspective is first demonstrated by Filippo Brunelleschi
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Period: 1430 to 1550
Northern Renaissance
The Renaissance spreads to countries like France, Germany, Poland, and England. -
1440
Johannes Gutenberg- Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press for replaceable and moveable metal and wood type in 1436 and completed it in 1440. The Printing press was a very important development in history because it sped up and increased production of texts and made information more widely available and affordable to people around the world. -
Period: 1445 to 1510
Sandro Botticelli
One of he earliest painters of the renaissance, most widely known for his painting of the "The Birth of Venus." -
Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo was an inventor, scientist, mathematician, and artist. -
Period: 1475 to 1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti
One of the most famous artist of the Renaissance. -
1482
Birth of Venus- Sandro Botticelli
This iconic painting was created between 1482 and 1485 by Sandro Botticelli, and has become a landmark of 15th century Italian painting -
1509
Raphael- Madonna of Loreto
Raphael is a highly known painter from the Italian renaissance. Madonna of Loreto is one of. his most popular pieces. The painting depicts a tender moment between the Madonna and the Child, with Saint Joseph looking in from the shadows. -
1559
Meenakshi Amman Temple
The Meenakshi Amman Temple is the heart of the ancient city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. A religious and mythological symbol dating back 2,500 years, the temple’s 14 towers are each covered in thousands of colorful stone figures depicting animals, gods and demons -
1567
Pieter Bruegel the Elder-The Peasant Wedding
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish Painter who worked During the Northern Renaissance. One of his famous works is The Peasant Wedding, which depicted a view of peasant life at the time. The painting makes the viewer feel as though they are an audience watching a scene. -
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Baroque
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Jan Steen- The Dissolute Household
The Dissolute Household is Baroque painting done by Dutch painter Jan Steen. The scene depicts domestic chaos and is acted out by Steen and his family members. In the painting, the family acts out a variety of sins such as gluttony, sloth, and lust. -
Sir Isaac Newton - Optiks
Sir Isaac Newton is known as one of the greatest scientists in history. in 1672, he published a series of his experiments called Optiks, which included experiments from 1666 to 1672. These experiments were very important because up until Newton's discoveries scientists believed that light was just made up of basic entities. Newton's studies showed us that light was solely responsible for creating color. -
Joseph Nicephore Niepce- View From the Window at La Gras
View From the Window at La Gras was the fist known photograph to ever be taken. Niepce set up a camera obscura in the workroom of his country house. he set it up with a polished pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea and uncapped the lens. The photo was taken after a very long exposure time. This process was known as Heliography. -
Three Seascapes- Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Louis Daguerre- Daguerrotype
Louis Daguerre invented the photography process known as daguerrotype in 1839. The daguerrotype was an early form of developing photographs. Since the daguerrotype was made on a polished copper plate, each photo was one of a kind. the daguerrotype was eventually used to photograph American icons to introduce Americans to the idea of photography and using it to capture life. -
Desperate Man- Gustave Courbet
Desperate man is a very expressive self-portrait in romanticism style, by artist Gustave Courbet. -
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Realism
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James Clerk Maxwell- first colored photograph
In 1861, Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell took the very first colored photo that did not immediately fade or require hand-painting.
Maxwell used what is known as his three-color method by taking the same photograph three times through a red, a yellow, and a blue filter and then recombining the images into one color composite. -
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Impressionism
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Post-Impressionism
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Claude Monet- Rouen Cathedral series
The Rouen Cathedral series was a series of paintings created by the famous impressionist painter Claude Monet. The series is made up of many paintings of the Rouen in cathedral in different lighting throughout the day. The Rouen Cathedral series is a great example of how impressionist painters used colors to create depth and lighting effects in their pieces. -
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Expressionism
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Period: to
Cubism
New forms are created to express modern life. -
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon- Pablo Picasso
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Egon Schiele- Tote Mutter(Dead Mother)
Egon Schiele was an Austrian expressionist whose artworks were unpopular during his lifetime, but are mesmerizing today. Tote Mutter is a painting that uses distorted figures and dark colors to depict a mother dying during childbirth. -
James Ensor- The Banquet of the Starved
The Banquet of the Starved is a famous painting that was created during WWI. The Painting is believed to be a commentary of the German occupation of Belgium at the time. The lame meal of insects and raw onion is believed to symbolize how the Belgians were nearly starved during the German invasion. The painting also touches on mortality with three of Ensor's works depicting skeletons in the background. -
Frank Lloyd Wright- Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a famous house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed in 1935 and is famous for incorporating the nature of the houses setting into the house itself. The house was built to rise above a waterfall on the site, and the waterfall was turned into a part of the house. Fallingwater is known as one of the best pieces of American architecture. -
Period: to
Abstract Expressionism(1940s-1950s) and Pop Art(1960s)
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Norman Rockwell- The Four Freedoms
The Four Freedoms is a series of paintings inspired by a speech by Franklin Roosevelt right before WWII. The paintings each depict a freedom that Americans take for granted. The Freedoms include Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The series was used by the U.S. government to raise money for the war effort, and the paintings raised a total of 132 million dollars. -
Daniel Spoerri- Snare Pictures
Daniel Spoerri is an artist who is known for his many "snare pictures". Spoerri took assemblages of leftovers from meals and fixed them to the table or surface they were on. the Assemblages were then displayed up on a well like a normal picture or painting. -
Spiral Jetty- Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) is located at Rozel Point peninsula on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake. Using over six thousand tons of black basalt rocks and earth. -
Period: to
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism
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Judy Chicago- The Dinner Party
The Dinner party was an important piece of feminist art from the 1970s. The piece consists of 39place settings that each represent an important woman in history. The idea of the piece is to introduce the richness of the woman's heritage into todays culture. -
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
A great example of a large community coming together to create a piece of art is the AIDS memorial quilt. The memorial quilt was created during the AIDS pandemic in hopes to help people see the devastating effects of the disease, and create a memorial for those affected. The quilt is made up of more than 48,000 individual quilts that were sewn and made by the friends and family of a person affected by AIDS. The quilt was first displayed in its entirety in 1987 in D.C. -
Sue Coe- Porkopolis
Porkopolis is a series of paintings by Sue Coe that illustrate the gross, unseen side of the food production industry. Her work gives an anti-animal cruelty message and shows the suffering of farm animals. When you look closer at her work you can see that she also portrays the human slaughterhouse workers as numb and expressionless. By doing this, Coe's paintings are not only commenting on the treatment of animals by the food industry, but the humans role in continuing this unending slaughter. -
The Kitchen Table Series- Carrie Mae Weems
The Kitchen Table Series is a series of photographs by American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photos aim to capture the story of one woman life from the intimacy of her kitchen table. -
Felix Gonsales Torres- Untitled(Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
This piece by Felix Gonsales Torres is a site-specific piece made up of a 175 pound pile of individually wrapped candy pieces. The pile is meant to represent a late partner of Torres, and invites viewers to take a piece of candy from the pile. The pile starts out at 175 pounds because that was the weight of Torres' partner, and as the pile diminishes it represents his partners struggle with AIDS. -
Sally Mann- Immediate Family
Immediate Family is a photo series by photographer Sally Mann. The photos were taken between 1984 to 1991 and they document the sensual side of the childhoods of her three children. Mann considered the photos to be a sensual maternal view on childhood, but when the photos went on display, they caused lots of controversy. Many people found the photos to be sexualizing her children and considered them to be child pornography. -
Catherine Opie- Justin Bond
Catherine Opie is known for her photographs depicting LGBT+ members through portraits, such as Justin Bond.Her portraits challenged societal norms and expectations regarding gender and beauty. -
Genesis- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
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Mining the Museum- Fred Wilson
Mining the Museum was created by Fred Wilson to show the hidden truth behind classic works of art. He did so by doing things such as arranging ornate silver pieces with things like slave shackles in the middle of them. -
Nam June Paik- Electronic Superhighway
Nam June Paik is known as the father of video art. His famous piece, Electronic Superhighway, is a video installation of the U.S.A. This piece is used to show how electronic media has brought people knowledge and imagery of different parts of the country without having to leave their homes. The piece and its title is used to point out that media allows us to see things that we used to have to leave home and travel to see. -
The Swing (after Fragonard)- Yinka Shonibare
The Swing (after Fragonard) is an installation in which a life-size headless female mannequin, extravagantly attired in a dress in eighteenth-century style made of bright African print fabric, reclines on a swing suspended from a verdant branch attached to the gallery ceiling. -
Soundsuits- Nick Cave
The Soundsuits are wearable instruments created by Nick cave and create a bridge between fashion and performance art.
