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38,000 BCE
Cave Art
Cave art is painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings. They are of prehistoric origin in Asia and Europe. Cave painting was created in three basic stages; the nature and contours of the rock surface, the strength and type of light, and the raw materials available. -
30,000 BCE
Paleolithic Cave Painting
Paleolithic cave painting ranges from about 30,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE. This first accomplishments in human creativity were produced during this time. The most common themes in cave painting are large wild animals, tracings of human hands, and hand stencils. -
10,000 BCE
Neolithic Art Period in China
Chinese artistic tradition can be traced to about 4000 B.C., the middle of the Neolithic period. Ceramic art was the creative activity of Neolithic society in China. The earliest pots that appeared were exclusively earthenware, hand-made, red, and fired in bonfires. Chinese Middle Neolithic art is represented by deep bodied jugs, red or brown ware, and pointed bottomed amphorae. Chinese Late Neolithic pottery includes delicate, colored and polished vessels. -
3100 BCE
Egyptian Architecture
Egyptian architecture has two main characteristics, they are massiveness and conservatism. Massiveness is best seen in the pyramids and temples in Egypt. Conservatism appears in 3000 BCE as a representation for Roman emperors in the guise of pharaohs. -
2725 BCE
Egyptian Tomb Painting
The tombs of kings, queens, and nobles were decorated with murals. Usually these murals were images of deities and people who were deceased. Images on the murals were coincided with texts from the Book of The Dead. -
650 BCE
Greek Sculpture: Daedalic Period
The first stage of Greek sculpture is called the Daedalic period. The Daedalic style is primarily decorative. The Daedalic style is discerned for the conservative conception of its form and the abnormally slow rate of its development. The characteristics of the Daedalic style are combined with other local or oriental elements and are applied to the works of the pro-corinthian ceramics and to the minor art in bronze. -
480 BCE
Early Classical Greek Sculpture
Classical sculpture refers to the loose forms of sculpture from ancient Greece and Rome. Greek sculptures were used to depict the battles, mythology, and rulers of the land known as Ancient Greece. The classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world. -
450 BCE
High Classical Greek Sculpture
The high classical sculpture demonstrates the shifting style in Greek sculptural work as figures became more dynamic and less static. -
210 BCE
Roman Basilica Architecture
In Ancient Rome, the basilica was created as a place for tribunals, transacting business, and disposing legal matters. The building was a long rectangular shape with a central portion of the hall was made up of the nave. -
400
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts were religious texts embellished with rich colors which featured the use of gold and silver. Illumination of manuscripts were a way of aggrandizing ancient documents. -
Nov 22, 1423
Painting in Florence and Rome: Adoration of the Magi
Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi was housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It was considered to be his finest works. The works shows both the international and Sienese schools' influences on Gentile's art and it is combined with the Renaissance novelties he had knowledge of in Florence. -
Nov 30, 1498
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper is Christ's final mean with his apostles. Leonardo depicts Christ blessing the bread and wine in his painting. Leonardo's last supper is dense with symbolic references. -
Nov 30, 1500
High Renaissance Art
Through the high renaissance period, artists achieved an ideal of harmony and balance. High renaissance was a culmination of artistic developments of early renaissance. High renaissance was considered to be a natural evolution of Italian Humanism. -
Nov 30, 1505
Venetian Art Style
Venice had developed its own artistic style that differed from that of Florence and Rome. There was a rivarly between the two styles. The Venetian style of painting is characterized by deep, rich colors, emphasis on patterns and surfaces, and a strong interest in the effects of light. -
Baroque Art in Europe
In European history the period from 1585 to 1700/1730 is called the Baroque era. The word baroque comes from the Portuguese and Spanish words for large and irregularly. Baroque art tended to be large scale works of public art such as; monumental wall paintings, frescoes for the ceilings, and vaults of palaces and churches. Baroque art illustrated key elements of the catholic dogma. -
Romanticism Art
Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and underlined strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. -
Early Photography: The daguerrotype
The daguerreotype was the first photographic process. It was invented by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. The daguerreotype was exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors. Each polished silver copper plate is a unique photograph that exhibits extraordinary detail. -
The Stonebreakers - Gustave Courbet
In the painting of Courbet, there are two figures that are going through hard labor. Courbet wanted to present that the poor is evident. Courbet's brushwork is rough like a stone. -
Realism Art
Realism art is accurate, detailed, unblemished depiction of art or contemporary life. Realism art does not accept imaginative idealization in favor of a close observation of outward appearances. -
Modern Art
Modern art is an evolving set of ideas among various of artists. It is the creative world's response to the rational perspectives in society. Modern art is characterized by the artist's intention to portray a subject to the world. -
Impressionistic Art
Impressionism is a 19th century art movement. Impressionistic art is characterized by relatively small, thin, visible brush strokes, open composition, and emphasis on depiction of light. -
Van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Van Gogh’s characteristic long brushstrokes run vertically. The hat and facial features seem to curve or swirl. This painting is very controlled. However, the colors used in the face seem to clash which suggests turmoil within himself. The colors seem to be original. Van Gogh used unstable pigments that changed colors over time. -
Cubism Art
Cubism is an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting, sculpture, music, literature, and architecture. Cubism was the most intellectual and uncompromising movement. Cubism was the origin of an evolutionary process that produced diversity. -
Surrealism Art
Surrealism began in the early twentieth century. It was a movement that flourished in art and literature. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions from conscious rational control. -
Picasso's Guernica
One of Picasso's famous cubist work is Guernica. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering upon innocent civilians. This work is seen as a pastoral and epic style. The color intensifies the drama, producing a reportage quality as in a photographic record. Guernica is blue, black and white. -
Abstract Art
The Abstract Expressionism movement began in the 1940's in New York City after World War II. Abstract art does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality. In abstract art shapes, colors, forms, and marks are used to achieve its effect. -
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism is a post World War II art movement in American painting in the 1940's. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence. -
Pop Art Movement
Pop art was a movement marked by a fascination with popular culture. It reflected the post- war society. Pop art first emerged in Great Britain. Pop art is a descendant of Dadaism, it mocks the established art world by appropriating images from the street, supermarket, mass media, and art itself. -
Robert Rauschenberg Canyon
Canyon is not entirely an abstract work of art. Canyon would be a traditional representational artwork. Rauschenberg’s work seems to resist fixed decoding in favor of a more open-ended play of meaning. Canyon can be seen as a counter to the overblown rhetoric of abstract expressionism. -
Gold Marilyn Monroe - Andy Warhol
Warhol's work reveals that he was influenced by both pop culture and art history. Warhol took a subject of an impersonal image and made it his own drawing of Monroe. Warhol multiplied the face of Monroe which signified his own fascination with a society that people could be manufactured, co modified, and consumed like products.
