INSTANTANEOUS ART THROUGH THE AGES
Period
Dates
Artists
Music
Palestrina
Ideas and Authors
Renaissance
13501550
Michelangelo,
Raphael,
Leonardo,
Botticelli,
Brunelleschi,
Giotto,
Donatello
Mannerism,
another way to
talk about the end
of the
Renaissance or
the beginning of
the Baroque
15201600
Titian, Durer,
Giorgione,
Tintoretto,
El Greco,
Philip II of
Spain builds
Escorial,
Velazquez
Monteverdi
Reformation and counterReformation. What should
they do? Follow the art that
had gone before (after the
"manner" of) or strike out
on one’s own?
Baroque,
Characterized by
ornamentation
and curved rather
than straight
lines.
15501750
Louis XIV
builds
Versailles,
Rubens,
Poussin,
Lorrain,
Bernini,
Rembrandt,
Vermeer
Lully,
Rameau
Purcell
Handel,
Bach
Absolutism,
Classical ballet, classical
theatre
Scientific revolution,
Descartes, English Civil
War and Restoration,
Rococo, or
Baroque run
amok, but lighter
and less formal
17151789
Watteau,
Frederick TG's
SansSouci,
Hogarth
Mozart,
Haydn,
Gluck,
Couperin
Enlightened despotism,
Enlightenment,
philosophes, J.J. Rousseau,
Goethe,
Schiller
Individualism, humanism,
perspective, red and blue,
triangles, portraiture,
equipoise, foreshortening,
natural landscapes, 3
dimensional sculpture
Neo-classical (on
the way to fullblown
Romanticism)
17891820
David, Ingres,
Gericault
Goya, Gros,
Canova
Beethoven,
Romanticism,
Naturalism and
the Barbizon
School
1820-
Delacroix,
"Liberty
Leading the
People"
Rude, Corot,
Millet,
Theodore
Rousseau
Berlioz
Weber,
Chopin,
Realism. (It’s
followed by
“Naturalism” in
literature, slightly
grittier, and with
more attention to
social problems
and social
context)
mid19th
century
to
1870
Daumier (is to
his time what
Hogarth was to
his), Courbet,
Haussmann,
Eiffel (who
designed the
tower of the
same name)
Wagner,
Franck,
Brahams
1860
Gluck,
Cherubini,
Schubert
Rossini
Mendelssohn
Liszt,
Schumann
J. Strauss,
Jr. (aka
the Waltz
King)
Bizet,
Verdi,
Puccini
French Revolution to July
Monarch of 1830.
Beginnings of nationalism
Dumas, Hugo, Byron,
Gautier, Blake, Sand,
Keats, Shelley, Walter
Scott. Emotional reaction
against the neo-classical.
Use of nature, patriotism,
heroism, the supernatural,
glorification of the past,
cute peasants.
Balzac, Dickens, Zola,
Maupassant
Ibsen, Nietzsche, Proust,
Baudelaire
Goes with positivism,
Realpolitik, based on fact not
emotion. Un-cute peasants
and un-cute workers.
Industrial progress. Trains.
Impressionism
Gets its name
from Monet’s
painting
“Impression of
Sunrise” shown at
the Salon des
Refusees in 1874.
Followed by
PostImpressionism,
pointillism
(“Sunday
Afternoon on the
Island of La
Grande Jatte”)
18701920
Manet, Monet,
Degas, Renoir,
Rodin,
Cezanne,
Gauguin,
Seurat,
ToulouseLautrec, Mary
Cassat, Sisley,
Van Gogh
Faure,
Debussy
SaintSaens,
Mahler
New subject matter and a
new way of looking at the
world. Everyday life of the
middle class becomes an
acceptable subject for high
art. Painting in the outdoors
gives new chance to study
the play of light. Identify it
with “La Belle Epoque”
Modern
Artists influenced
by
Freud, Einstein,
WWI and WWII,
Atomic Age
20th
century
Kathe
Kollwitz, Otto
Dix, Picasso,
Matisse (one of
"Les Fauves"
the Wild
Beasts),
Maillol,
Chagall,
Miro, Brancusi,
Henry Moore,
Calder, Braque,
Giocometti
Roualt, Klee,
Modigliani
Marcel
Du Champ,
Dali, Andy
Warhol,
Jackson
Pollack,
Willem de
Kooning
Stravinsky
Prokofiev,
Gershwin,
Poulenc
Satie
Webern,
Berg,
R.Strauss
Bartok,
Ravel
Realism (a different kind
than that which followed
Romanticism. It responded
to WWI and post-war
decadence, especially in
Germany.) Expressionism
(Looks within to a world of
emotional and
psychological states);
Abstractionism (analyzing,
deriving, detaching
geometrizing, and in short
distilling the essence from
nature and sense
experiences.) Cubism,
Futurism
(Fascist-flavored
Italian art), Surrealism
(describes dream fantasies,
memory images and visual
paradoxes); Dadaism
(response to horrors of
WWI-nihilistic, challenges
polite society, against order
and reason);Social realism
(artist's protest against
intolerable conditions
besetting humankind)