Art and design movement

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  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Stone Age

    Unique characteristics:
    megalithic structures
    fertility goddesses
    cave paintings Influence on subsequent artists: the first recorded art Artists associated with this movement:
    Stone henge
    Lascaux Cave Painting
    Woman of Willendorf Cultural context: First permanent settlements Global cultural context: end of ice age Associated science context:
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 563 BCE

    Mesopotamian

    Unique characteristics: warrior art and narration in stone Influence on subsequent artists: Egyptian Artists associated with this movement:
    Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi’s Code Cultural context:
    Hammurabi writes his law code Abraham founds monotheism
    Global cultural context: Sumerians invent writing
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

    egyptian

    Narmer unites Upper/Lower Egypt (3100 b.c.); Rameses II battles the Hittites (1274 b.c.); Cleopatra dies (30 b.c.) Unique characteristics: Art has an afterlife focus. Painted inside pyramids and tombs
    Artists associated with this movement: imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti
    Cultural context: Cleopatra dies
    Global cultural context: Upper\lower egypt are united
  • Period: 1917 BCE to 1950 BCE

    Dada and Surrealism

    Unique characteristics: Unusual or ridiculous art, exploring the unconscious
    Influence on subsequent artists: Made way for alternative views on art
    Artists associated with this movement: Duchamp, Darli, de chirico
    Cultural context: The great depression
    Global cultural context: After world war 1
    Associated science context: atomic bombs dropped in japan (1945) causing devastation
  • Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE

    Greek and Hellenistic

    Unique characteristics: Greek idealism
    Artists associated with this movement: Parthenon, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles, Myron
    Cultural context: Peloponnesian Wars
  • Period: 500 to Oct 21, 1400

    middle ages

    Unique characteristics: celtic aer, romanesque themes, gothic
    Artists associated with this movement: St. Sernin, Notre Dam, Giotto
    Cultural context: Viking raids, Battle of hastings
    Global cultural context: Hundred year's war
    Associated science context: The plague
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    Cubism

    Unique characteristics: Experimental art, new forms to express modern life
    Influence on subsequent artists: changed the way people made art
    Artists associated with this movement: Picasso, Boccioni, Serverini
    Cultural context: American women franchised, suffragettes
    Global cultural context: russian revolution
  • Period: to

    pop art

    • Unique characteristics: uses every day objects in an artistic way such as marmite • Influence on subsequent artists: Inspires home deco and clothing due to bright colours • Artists associated with this movement:
    David Hockney
    Jeff Koons
    Andy Warhol • Cultural context: originated in Britain in the late 1950's • Global cultural context: Post war art • Associated science context: Screen printing
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    Postmodernism and Deconstructivism

    Unique characteristics: Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles to create an image
    Artists associated with this movement: Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman.
    Cultural context: Communism collapses
    influence on subsequent artists: start of punk and alternative art