3500 - 331 BC: Mesopotamian Art
3500 - 1750 BC: Sumerian/Akkadian
1000 - 539 BC: Assyrian/Neo-Babylonian
539 - 331 BC: Persian
►MESOPOTAMIAN ART 101
3500 - 1750 BC: Sumerian/Akkadian
1000 - 539 BC: Assyrian/Neo-Babylonian
539 - 331 BC: Persian
►MESOPOTAMIAN ART 101
Middle Ages 500-1400
Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
Viking Raids (793–1066); Battle of Hastings (1066); Crusades I–IV (1095–1204); Black Death (1347–1351); Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)
Rebirth of classical cultureGhiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, RaphaelGutenberg invents movable type (1447); Turks conquer Constantinople (1453); Columbus lands in New World (1492); Martin Luther starts Reformation (1517)
Mannerism (1527–1580)
Art that breaks the rules; artifice over natureTintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, CelliniMagellan circumnavigates the globe (1520–1522)
Baroque (1600–1750)
Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious warsReubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of VersaillesThirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants (1618–1648)
Neoclassical (1750–1850)
Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeurDavid, Ingres, Greuze, CanovaEnlightenment (18th century); Industrial Revolution (1760–1850)
Romanticism (1780–1850)
The triumph of imagination and individualityCaspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin WestAmerican Revolution (1775–1783); French Revolution (1789–1799); Napoleon crowned emperor of France (1803)
Realism (1848–1900)
Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting Corot, Courbet, Daumier, MilletEuropean democratic revolutions of 1848
Impressionism (1865–1885)
Capturing fleeting effects of natural light. Artists: Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas. Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871); Unification of Germany (1871)
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism (1885–1910)
A soft revolt against Impressionism. Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat, Belle Époque (late-19th-century Golden Age); Japan defeats Russia (1905) Era ends with WWI. Golden Age is seen as a period of optimism.
Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)
Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new forms to express modern life. Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, MalevichRussian Revolution (1917); American women franchised (1920)
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Dada and Surrealism(1917–1950)
Ridiculous art; painting dreamsand exploring the unconsciousDuchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, de Chirico, KahloDisillusionment after World War I; The Great Depression (1929–1938); World War II (1939–1945) and Nazi horrors; atomic bombs dropped on Japan (1945)
Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)
Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression without form; popular art absorbs consumerismGorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol, LichtensteinCold War and Vietnam War (U.S. enters 1965); U.S.S.R. suppresses Hungarian revolt (1956) Czechoslovakian revolt (1968)
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– )
Art without a center and reworking and mixing past stylesGerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry, Zaha HadidNuclear freeze movement; Cold War fizzles; Communism collapses in Eastern Europe and U.S.S.R. (1989–1991)
Reference: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/art-history-timeline.html
http://www.arthistoryplus.com/2010/01/art-history-101.html
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