Brief overview of Western Art styles

Date Name Description Location Examples

C5th BCE - C1st Classical Greek Greece

BCE

C1st BCE- C4th Classical Roman Roman

CE Empire

C4th CE - Byzantine Eastern

Europe,
Early Christian W. Europe

C10th – Romanesque Europe

Medieval/Middle
Ages

C11th- C15th Gothic Europe

C15th Early Renaissance Italy and

Northern
Europe

C16th High Renaissance Europe

C16th late Mannerism Europe

C17th Baroque Catholic

Europe,
Protestant
Europe

Early-mid C18th Rococo Europe

Mid C18th-19th Neoclassicism Europe

and USA

Late 18th-19th Romanticism Europe

and USA

Mid 19th Realism Europe

USA

Mid 19th Pre-Raphaelite England

Brief overview of Western Art styles
Date Name Description Location Examples

EMERGENCE OF MODERNISM …

1860s/70s Impressionist France

1880s/90s Post-Impressionist France

styles,
Symbolism

1880s/90s Victorian revivals England

(e.g. Gothic revival)

1900s/10s Fauvism, France,

Expressionism Germany

1900s/10s Cubism France

1900s/10s Futurism Italy

1910s/20s De Stilj Holland

1910S/20S Suprematism and Russia/

Constructivism Soviet
Union

EMERGENCE OF ABSTRACTION …

1910s/20s Dada Europe,

USA

1930s Surrealism Europe,

Americas

1940s Abstract USA

Expressionism

1950s/60s Neo-Dada, USA,

Pop Art Britain
and USA

1960s/70s on Conceptual Art, USA and

and Performance Europe
& Video Art

1960s/70s on Minimalism, and USA and

Land/earth art, Europe
Body Art,
Feminist Art
Brief overview of Western Art styles
Date Name Description Location Examples

1980s on Postmodernism: Inter-

e.g. Neo- national
expressionism,
Neo-conceptual
art etc.

Black Art Britain

Movement

1990s on Young British Britain

Artists

CONTEMPORARY ART

2000s on Inter-disciplinary, Inter-

transmodern national
global art