ART HISTORY
Contemporary art is art created by living artists within the present day. As a result, it
44,000 – 4000 B.C.
PRE – HISTORIC ART
This art is of indigenous
mammals, a small
water buffalo, a warty
pig, and a pig-deer, and contributors in this period are
hand stencils. The
leading contributors in
this era are the
Civilizations from
Mesopotamia, Egypt,
Greece, and the Code of Hammurabi; Standard
Romans. Sulawesi Cave of Ur; Gate of Ishtar, Egyptian
Paintings, Lascaux Cave
Paintings, Venus of pyramids; Temple of Rameses;
Willendorf, Stonehenge The Great Sphinx, Greek and
are the influential
works.
Praxiteles, Roman - Augustus
EARLY TO HIGH reflects the varied, worldwide, and continuously changing challenges that shape our
RENAISSANCE ART world. Thus, it also uses a various range of materials, methods, concepts, and
Renaissance describes the resurgence of subjects to form works that question the established order and resist easy
categorization. Wherein contemporary artists investigate historical ideas, concepts,
curiosity in the artistic achievements of Greece
questions, and practices to comprehend this and envision the future. One of the
and Rome. Leading Contributors are Ghiberti,
strengths of this art is its quest for diversity, within its constraints, it becomes possible
MEDIEVAL ART Brunelleschi; Donatello; Botticelli; Leanardo; to convey a message in any manner one can imagine. In addition, the use of true colors
During this time, some works of art depicted Michelangelo; Raphael. Influential works is also one of its supremacies. Nevertheless, one of its limitations is the lack of a
horrific or terrible images, while others includes Ghiberti’s Door; Cathedral of Sta. cohesive, unifying philosophy or ideology. Moreover, the
centered on institutionalized religion. Most of Monica del Fiore; David; Primavera, emergence of technology makes the arts digitally copied
the work produced was depressing. Leading Mona Lisa. without proper credits to the artists.
artists are Abbot, Suger, Cimabue, Duccio,
Giotto. Influential works includes MANNERISM DADAISM AND How are you going to describe
Crucifix, Lamentation of Christ This era introduced a particular SURREALISM contemporary art? What are the
St. Sernin, Durnham Cathedral, imaginative art. It also portrays CUBISM, FUTURISM, In dadaism the goal of the strengths and limitations of the latter?
Chartres Cathedral. 1400 - 1500 1430 - 1550 exaggerated approach to
SUPREMATIVISM, artist is not to create
painting and sculpture. Leading aesthetically pleasing
contributors includes CONSTRUCTIVISM, DE STILL
objects while in Surrealism,
1950 -1980
Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Cubism involves the utilization
of geometric shapes or figures it is more of imagination or
Bronzino, Cellini. Influential
1527 -1580
while Futurism is all about the used of unconscious mind.
400 -1400 A.D.
works are St. Luke, Leading contributors are
integration of technology or
Summer. Duchamp, Dali, Ernst,
ASIAN ART VENETARIAN AND machines on the lives of
This includes Hindu, people. These art movements Magritte, de Chirico, Kahlo.
NORTHERN POST MODERNISM AND
Chinese, and Japanese Art. express modern life. Prominent The Fountain, The
RENAISSANCE ART artists include Picasso, Braque, Persistence of Memory are DECONSTRUCTIVISM
Asian art tends to be
1940 - 1960
BAROQUE ART Postmodern art seeks to bridge
Serene, and meditative. The The advance technique in oil Leger, Boccioni, Severini, the dominant works.
This art is highly detailed the gap between art, popular
prominent artists in this era painting and rediscovery of Malevich. Influential works are
and elaborate. It also has culture, and the media while
something new emerged in this The Old Guitarist Malevich’s
are Gu Kaizhi; Li Cheng; dramatic or theatrical effect
1600 - 1750
Self Portrait. Deconstructivism involves building
Hokusai; Hiroshige. period. Prominent artists are of artworks. Prominent designs that attempts to view
Swastika, om Wintry Forest, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Durer, artists are Reubens, architecture in bits and pieces.
Level Distance Cherry Bruegel, Bosch, Jan Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Caravaggio. Prominent artists are Gerard
476 – 1453
Blossom Time at Naka-no- Rogier van der Weyden. Through Influential works include Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm
the Looking Glass Portrait in a Palace of Versailles. Kiefer, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid.
cha in the Yoshiwara are
the Influential works. Young Man in Red are the 1917 - 1950 Orders of the Night; Abstract Art
Influential works. are the influential works.
1905 - 1920
NEOCLASSICAL
ABSTRACT
This period was considered
1700
as an era of enlightenment EXPRESSIONISM
and revival of classical art. AND POP ART
30,000 B.C. – A.D. 400 653 B.C. – A.D. 1900 FAUVISM AND
BYZANTINE AND Leading contributors are Abstract expressionism is all about pure abstraction
David, Ingres, Greuze, EXPRESSIONISM. and expression without form. It also uses random
ISLAMIC ART
Canova. Philoctetes on Fauvism indicates the use of application of pigments and the paint itself is
Religious expression
distortion of subject and unrecognizable while Pop art is all about culture and
1750-1850
was almost entirely Lemnos, Napoleon crossing
the Alps are the dominant brilliant and strong colors the use of ready-made object which is popular that
1900 - 1935
regulated by the
works. while Expressionism time. Thus, absorbs consumerism. Prominent artists
church during this
ANCIENT ART emphasized emotional are Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol,
time; therefore,
The works of ancient ROMANTICISM experience rather than Lichtenstein. Influential works include Autumn
depictions were
civilizations such as the In this period, artists physical reality. Leading Rhythm, Marilyn Monroe, Campbell soup cans.
uniform and
Greeks and Celts, as well as emphasize the contributors are
consistent, and less
early Chinese dynasties, are importance of Matisse, Kadinsky and
a reflection of the
included in the Ancient Art imagination and Munch. Influential works are
artist's personal
1848 -1900
period. The leading individuality. Also, Dancer Tilting, San Giorgio
values. Prominent
the common Maggiore at
artist is Andrei
also Civilizations from themes that they Dusk.
Rublev. Influential
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, works such as Hagia considered includes
and the Romans. Influential landscapes, religion, 1865 - 1885 1885 - 1910 POST –
Sofia, Mosque of
works includes revolution etc. IMPRESSIONISM
Cordoba; The
Mesopotamian Leading artists are Post-impressionists
Alhambra.
Caspar Friedrich, favored an emphasis
Gericault, Delacroix, on more real object
IMPRESSIONISM source, formal order,
- Imhotep’s pyramid; Great Turner, Benjamin
In this era, modern life and outdoors were and structure.
West. Influential REALISM often used as the subject matter by Prominent artists are
works includes Art was used to unveil emotions. impressionist painters. Leading contributors Van Gogh, Gaugin,
Hellenistic - Parthenon; Caernarvon Castle; Also share similar characteristics are Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat.
Myron; Phidias; Polykeitos; Liberty Leading the with naturalism. Prominent artists Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Influential works are
People are Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric The Starry Night,
of Primaporta; Colosseum; Millet. The Gleaners is one of the Bazille. La Grenouillère, The Bath (Le Bain) Pyramid of Skulls,
Trajan’s Column; Pantheon influential works. are the influential works. The Dream.