ARTS

Module 3
Skill-Building Activity
Art Period/ Movement - Characteristics - Chief Artist and Major Work
1. Prehistoric Art (~40,000–4,000 B.C.) - rock carvings, engravings, pictorial imagery, sculptures,
and stone arrangements - Paleolithic cave paintings
2. Ancient Art (4,000 B.C.–A.D. 400) - to tell stories, decorate utilitarian objects like bowls and
weapons, display religious and symbolic imagery, and demonstrate social status - Code of
Hammurabi
3. Medieval Art (500–1400) - the illuminated manuscript and Gothic architecture style - Hagia
Sophia in Istanbul, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Notre Dame
4. Renaissance Art (1400–1600) - arts and humanism - da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael
5. Mannerism (1527–1580) - figures had graceful, elongated limbs, small heads, stylized
features and exaggerated details - Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Salviati, Domenico Beccafumi, and
Bronzino
6. Baroque (1600–1750) - drama - Caravaggio and Rembrandt
7. Rococo (1699–1780) - decorative art, painting, architecture, and sculpture - Antoine
Watteau and Francois Boucher
8. Neoclassicism (1750–1850) - elements from classical antiquity - Antonio Canova
9. Romanticism (1780–1850) - painting to music to literature - plein air painting
10. Realism (1848–1900) - the anti-Romantic movement in Germany, the rise of journalism, and
the advent of photography - Gustave Courbet
11. Art Nouveau (1890–1910) - heavily influenced applied arts, graphics, and illustration
architecture, graphic and interior design, jewelry-making, and painting - Alphonse Mucha/
theatrical posters of French actress, Antoni Gaudi Basilica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ko
12. Impressionism (1865–1885) - short, quick brushstrokes and an unfinished, sketch-like feel -
Claude Monet
13. Post-Impressionism (1885–1910) - visions and symbolic, pointillism- Vincent van Gogh
14. Fauvism (1900–1935) - expressive use of intense color, line, and brushwork, a bold sense of
surface design, and flat composition - Vincent van Gogh and George Seurat
15. Expressionism (1905–1920) - distortion of form and strong colors to display anxieties and
raw emotions - Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor
16. Cubism (1907–1914) - fragmented objects through abstraction - Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque
17. Surrealism (1916–1950) - works of art that defied reason - Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud,
Salvador Dalí
18. Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) - action painting - include Jackson Pollock, and Mark
Rothko
19. Op Art (1950s–1960s) - optical effects and illusions - Le Mouvement
20. Pop Art (1950s–1960s) - imagery was a shift from the direction of modernism - Andy Warhol
and Roy Lichtenstein
21. Arte Povera (1960s) - soil, rocks, paper, rope, and other earthen elements - Giovanni
Anselmo and Alighiero Boetti
22. Minimalism (1960s–1970s) - focused on anonymity, calling attention to the materiality of
works - Frank Stella
23. Conceptual Art (1960s–1970s) - performances, ephemera, and other forms - Ewa Partum’s
Active Poetry, One and Three Chairs
24. Contemporary Art (1970–present) -various schools and smaller movements that emerged -
Postmodernism, Feminist art, Neo Expressionism, Street art, The Pictures Generation,
Appropriation art, Young British Artists (YBA), Digital art

Check for Understanding

Art instruction helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills,
decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness. Visual arts teach learners about color, layout,
perspective, and balance: all techniques that are necessary in presentations (visual, digital) of
academic work.