Western Art History

Time Line
Prehistoric Art
Visual Arts Movements
30,000 3000 B.C.
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art - 30,00010,000 B.C.
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art - 10,0008000 B.C.
Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art - 8000-3000
B.C.

Ancient Art
Visual Arts Movements
5500 B.C. - 476 A.D.
Bronze Age Art - 2500-800 B.C.
Iron Age Art - 750-50 B.C.
Ancient Civilizations:
Ancient Egypt 5500 332 B.C.
Greek and Roman Egypt - 332 BC-395 AD
Ancient Greece ca 1200 27 B.C.
Classical Art 480 - 323 B.C.
Hellenistic Art - 323-50 B.C.
Roman Empire Art - 27 B.C. 476 A.D.
Celtic Art

Early Christian to
Medieval Art
Visual Arts Movements
400 - 1450
Early Christian 476 -ca. 800
Byzantine Art
Norman/ Viking Influences
The Anglo-Saxons 500 -1066
Medieval Art:
Romanesque Art - ca. 1000 ca. 1150
Gothic Art 1140 -1450
Flamboyant Gothic 1400 -1600

Renaissance to
Early Modern Art
Visual Arts Movements
1400 - 1880
The Renaissance 1450 -1600
Baroque Art 1600 -1750
Rococo 1700 -1750

Neo-Classicism 1750 -1880

Romanticism 1800 -1880

Realism 1830 -1870
Impressionism 1863 -1885

Modern Art
(The Industrial Revolution)
Visual Arts Movements
1880 - 1970
1880

Neo-Impressionism 1886 -1906

Post-Impressionism 1886 -1905
Symbolism 1880 -early 1900s
1890
Expressionism 1890 -1939
1900
Art Nouveau 1905 -1939
Cubism 1907 -Present
Futurism 1909 -1939
1910
Bauhaus 1919 -1933
Constructivism (Russian influences)1914 -early 1930s
Dada - Dadaism 1916 -1923
Purism 1918 -1926
1914
WWI 1914 -1918
1920
Art Deco 1920 -1930
Constructivism 1920 -Present
No-Ralism- 1920 -1930
Surrealism 1922 -1939
1930
Abstraction 1931 -1936
Concrete Art 1930 -ca. 1960
Neo-Romanticism 1930 -1950s
Socialist Realism - ca. 1930 -1950
1939
WWII 1939 -1945
1945 - Post-War
Abstract Expressionism 1945 -Present
Art brut 1945 -Present
1950
Action Painting - 1950s
Color Field Painting 1950 -Present
Hard-Edge Painting - late 1950s- Present
Neo-Dada - 1950
Pop Art - 1955 Present
1960
Conceptual Art 1960 Present
Minimalism 1960 Present
Op Art 1964 -Present
Psychedelic Art - early 1960s- early 1970s

Contemporary Art
Visual Art Movements
1970 - Present
1970

1980

1990
2000

Post-Modernism - 1970s-mid 1980s

Ugly Realism - 1970s
Feminist Art - 1970s-Present
Neo-Conceptualism - late 1970s-Present
Neo-Expressionism - late 1970s-1980s
Trans- Avantgarde 1979
Free Figuration - early 1980s
Multiculturalism - 1980s
Graffiti Movement - 1980s
Brit Art /Young British Artists("yBa")
Neo-Pop - late 1980s
Net Art - early 1990
Thinkism - September 12, 2001
Funism - ca. 2002
Street Art