ART HISTORY TIMELINE
Michleine Cloutier
“Art is the desire of a man to express
himself, to record the reactions of his
personality to the world he lives in.”
Amy Lowell
Throughout time, man has been compelled to react
to the world in which he lives. Even before the
existence of language, man would tell his story
through art. Join me on a journey through time to
explore the artistic history of man.
ANCIENT
CIVILIZATIONS
30 000 – 2 000 BC
•Cave paintings done
by early man
•Egyptian works
such as the pyramids
and the sphinx
•Art from ancient
Greece
THE CLASSICAL
PERIOD
500 BC – 476 AD
Ancient Rome
•Painting on plaster
(frescoes)
•Realistic sculptures
of people
•Battle scene
paintings on canvas
•Murals
•Mosaics
THE MIDDLE
AGES
500 AD – 1 400 AD
Celtic Art
Celtic
•Abstract
•Geometrically balanced
Romanesque Art
•Created for the Christian Catholic
Church
•Stained glass windows
•Murals
•Religious shrines and decorated
caskets
Romanesque
Gothic Art
•Evolved from Romanesque in
Western and Central Europe
•Religious art, little depth to
paintings, use of gold leaf
•Architecture was the most
important art form of the period
Gothic
RENAISSANCE
1 400 – 1 600 AD
Mona Lisa (Leonardo
DaVinci)
The Creation of
Adam
(Michaelangelo)
The nymph Galatea
(Raphael)
This period gave rise to
famous artists such as
Leonardo DaVinci,
Michaelangelo and
Raphael. The
Renaissance movement
was large in Europe,
specifically Italy.
You may be familiar
with some of these
paintings.
BAROQUE
1 600 – 1 700 AD
•Originated in Rome,
Italy
•Associated with the
Catholic counter
Reformation
Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris (Rubens, undated)
•Strong religious and
political influence
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
Realist painting, entitled “Three
Women in Church”
(Wilhelm Leibl)
PRE-MODERN ART
1790’s – 1890’s
Romanticism (1790-1850)
•Revolution against established values such
as social order and religion
•“Emotion over reason, senses over intellect”
•Fascination with nature and the human
condition
“Sunrise” (Claude Monet)
Impressionism
Realism (1830-1870)
•Expresses an object as it is
•Every day, ordinary objects are considered
worthy as art subjects
•Gustave Corbert of France gave the
movement its name
Impressionism (1860’s-1890’s)
•French movement
•Fascination with effects of light and
movement on appearance of an object and
how the human eye perceives it.
Monastery Graveyard
in the Snow, 1817-19
Casper David
Friedrich
Romanticism
MODERN ART
1 880 – 1 950
Post-Impressionism (1880-1910)
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term invented by art critic, Robert Fry
Ideas of impressionism pushed in a new direction by exaggerating certain aspects of
impressionism
Famous artists of this movement are Paul Cezanne, George Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh
Expressionism (1900-1935)
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art that aims representing one’s own idea of an object rather than its reality
Wassily Kandinsky is a famous artist of the expressionist movement
Cubism (1905-1920)
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Based on geometricity and multiple views
Aims at showing objects as they are rather than how they are perceived
Famous artist of this movement is Pablo Picasso
Surrealism (1917-1950)
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Art that depicts images as might be seen in a dream rather than reality
This style is free of reason and convention
Famou artist of this movement is Salvator Dali
Some examples of modern art
Cubism
Tete d’une Femme Lisant
Picasso
Expressionism
Post-Impressionism
Composition IV 1911 Kandinsky
Starry Night (Vincent Van Gogh)
Surrealism
The Persistence of Memory (SalvatorDali)
Post-Impressionism
Woman by the Water
George Seurat
Abstract
1940’s – 1950’s
POST-MODERN art
•This art form does not accurately
represent its subject in form or
object
1940’s-1960’s
Pop Art
Pool With Two Figures
David Hockney
•The artist takes an object or idea
and simplifies or exaggerates it
using shape, colour or form.
Pop art
1960’s – 1980’s
•As with cubism, pop art arose from
a rebellion against an accepted style
•Focus on material realities of life
and popular culture such as media
and advertising
•Celebration of consumer society
•Famous pop artists, Andy Warhol,
David Hockney
Pop Art
Diamond Dust Shoes
Andy Warhol, 1980
Abstract
The Moon Woman
(Jackson Pollock)
DIGITAL ART
1980’s-present
• Use of digital technology as the main medium
• Also known as computer art and multimedia art
• Created for a range of purposes from
advertising to television production
and film-making to simple art
enjoyment
• Includes digital photography
Digital Art
By Luke Lucas
Melbourne, Australia
Mike Chan, Hong Kong
“Every great work of art has two faces, one
toward its own time and one toward the future,
toward eternity.”
Daniel Barenboim
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