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    Western Art History Timeline

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    The document outlines major art history time periods and visual art movements from prehistoric art starting 30,000 BC through contemporary art of the 1970s to present. It divides art history into the following sections - prehistoric art from 30,000-3000 BC, ancient art from 5500 BC to 476 AD including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Celtic art. Early Christian to Medieval art spans 400-1450 AD. The Renaissance through early modern art covers 1400-1880. Modern art spans 1880-1970 including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and more. Contemporary art movements are listed from 1970 to present.

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    The document outlines major art history time periods and visual art movements from prehistoric art starting 30,000 BC through contemporary art of the 1970s to present. It divides art history into the following sections - prehistoric art from 30,000-3000 BC, ancient art from 5500 BC to 476 AD including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Celtic art. Early Christian to Medieval art spans 400-1450 AD. The Renaissance through early modern art covers 1400-1880. Modern art spans 1880-1970 including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and more. Contemporary art movements are listed from 1970 to present.

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    The document outlines major art history time periods and visual art movements from prehistoric art starting 30,000 BC through contemporary art of the 1970s to present. It divides art history into the following sections - prehistoric art from 30,000-3000 BC, ancient art from 5500 BC to 476 AD including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Celtic art. Early Christian to Medieval art spans 400-1450 AD. The Renaissance through early modern art covers 1400-1880. Modern art spans 1880-1970 including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and more. Contemporary art movements are listed from 1970 to present.

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    Western Art History Timeline

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    Western Art History Time Line

    Prehistoric Art
    Visual Arts Movements 30,000 3000 B.C.
    Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art - 30,00010,000 B.C. Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art - 10,0008000 B.C. Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art - 8000-3000 B.C.

    Romanticism 1800 -1880 Realism 1830 -1870 Impressionism 1863 -1885

    Modern Art
    (The Industrial Revolution) Visual Arts Movements 1880 - 1970
    1880 Neo-Impressionism 1886 -1906 Post-Impressionism 1886 -1905 Symbolism 1880 -early 1900s 1890 Expressionism 1890 -1939 1900 Art Nouveau 1905 -1939 Cubism 1907 -Present Futurism 1909 -1939 1910 Bauhaus 1919 -1933 Constructivism (Russian influences)1914 -early 1930s Dada - Dadaism 1916 -1923 Purism 1918 -1926 1914 WWI 1914 -1918 1920 Art Deco 1920 -1930 Constructivism 1920 -Present No-Ralism- 1920 -1930 Surrealism 1922 -1939 1930 Abstraction 1931 -1936 Concrete Art 1930 -ca. 1960 Neo-Romanticism 1930 -1950s Socialist Realism - ca. 1930 -1950 1939 WWII 1939 -1945 1945 - Post-War Abstract Expressionism 1945 -Present Art brut 1945 -Present 1950 Action Painting - 1950s Color Field Painting 1950 -Present Hard-Edge Painting - late 1950s- Present Neo-Dada - 1950 Pop Art - 1955 Present 1960 Conceptual Art 1960 Present Minimalism 1960 Present Op Art 1964 -Present Psychedelic Art - early 1960s- early 1970s

    Ancient Art
    Visual Arts Movements 5500 B.C. - 476 A.D.
    Bronze Age Art - 2500-800 B.C. Iron Age Art - 750-50 B.C. Ancient Civilizations: Ancient Egypt 5500 332 B.C. Greek and Roman Egypt - 332 BC-395 AD Ancient Greece ca 1200 27 B.C. Classical Art 480 - 323 B.C. Hellenistic Art - 323-50 B.C. Roman Empire Art - 27 B.C. 476 A.D. Celtic Art

    Early Christian to Medieval Art


    Visual Arts Movements 400 - 1450
    Early Christian 476 -ca. 800 Byzantine Art Norman/ Viking Influences The Anglo-Saxons 500 -1066 Medieval Art: Romanesque Art - ca. 1000 ca. 1150 Gothic Art 1140 -1450 Flamboyant Gothic 1400 -1600

    Contemporary Art
    Visual Art Movements 1970 - Present
    1970 Post-Modernism - 1970s-mid 1980s Ugly Realism - 1970s Feminist Art - 1970s-Present Neo-Conceptualism - late 1970s-Present Neo-Expressionism - late 1970s-1980s Trans- Avantgarde 1979 Free Figuration - early 1980s Multiculturalism - 1980s Graffiti Movement - 1980s Brit Art /Young British Artists("yBa") Neo-Pop - late 1980s Net Art - early 1990 Thinkism - September 12, 2001 Funism - ca. 2002

    Renaissance to Early Modern Art


    Visual Arts Movements 1400 - 1880
    The Renaissance 1450 -1600 Baroque Art 1600 -1750 Rococo 1700 -1750 Neo-Classicism 1750 -1880

    1980

    1990 2000

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