Art history timeline a guide to western art movements featured

Art history

  • 40,000 BCE

    prehistoric art (40,000-4,000)

    prehistoric art (40,000-4,000)
    prehistoric art in 40,000-4,000 B.C was naturalistic style and geometric style, back then they didn't have written styles so there were no direct records about the art.
  • 4000 BCE

    Ancient Art (4,000-40,000)

    Ancient Art (4,000-40,000)
    Ancient art was made by advanced citizens, one of the most famous art in this time was called the code of hummurabi created about 1792 B.C, this art tells stories, decorate objects like bowls and weapons and display a simbolic image.
  • 1400

    Medieval Art (500-1400)

    Medieval Art (500-1400)
    this time is reffered to as the middle ages or known as the dark ages following the fall of the roman empire in 476 A.D most of the artwork reflects the darkness reflects brutal scenery, art made around this time was centered around a church.
  • 1580

    Mannerism Art (1527-1580)

    Mannerism Art (1527-1580)
    marrist art emerged from michelangelo, raphael and other arts in the renassiance their paintings often consisted of small heads, stylized features and details. this type of art is known for its style and details.
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  • Renaissance Art (1400-1600)

    Renaissance Art (1400-1600)
    in this time period The renaissance reached its height in florence italy due to the wealth of a merchant family who supported the art and humanism in which created influential arts such as Da vinci, michelangelo and raphael each brought a creative power they were dedicated about detail and being precise of the human body.
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  • Realism (1848-1900)

    Realism (1848-1900)
    this art began in france in the 1840s, the art displays pictures truthfully it has more of a natural look, the art came about by Gustave Courbet it consisted of paintings of peasents and working class-life and combined with the new naturalism treatment that caused shock on upper and middle class audiences of art. [click here] https://www.bluffton.edu/courses/humanities/art/19c/real/courbet.html
  • impressionism (1865-1885)

    impressionism (1865-1885)
    impressionism artist used modern life as the subject to their paintings and situations they were in at that time, in a ballroom, on a boat. scenes from everyday life. it began in 1860s. at first people back then became hostile with impressionists then gradually became okay with the art as it captured a fresh and visual vision.
  • Fauvism (1900-1935)

    Fauvism (1900-1935)
    the name from this art came from a group of artists and their names was Henri Matisse and Andre Derain from the 1900s which was for their strong colors, the art emerged from France. Henri was known for his French paintings and was labeled as a wild beast
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  • Expressionism (1905-1920)

    Expressionism (1905-1920)
    in this time era expressionism art is distorted in artists inner feelings and ideas, the art originated in Northern Europe right around the beginning of the 20th century. and ended in 1933.
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