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Stone Age (30,000 B.C.) - 2500 B.C.)

The document outlines major art movements from the Stone Age through Postmodernism, organized chronologically. Some of the earliest movements included cave painting from the Stone Age focused on fertility and megalithic structures. Mesopotamian art featured warrior themes in stone relief, while Egyptian art centered on afterlife themes through pyramids and tomb paintings. Greek and Hellenistic art emphasized balance and proportions through architectural orders. Roman art stressed practical realism through forms like the arch. Later movements include Byzantine and Islamic heavenly mosaics and architecture, Renaissance rebirth of classical styles, Baroque splendor, Impressionist light effects, Cubist experiments, Abstract Expressionist abstraction, and Postmodern mixing of styles.

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Stone Age (30,000 B.C.) - 2500 B.C.)

The document outlines major art movements from the Stone Age through Postmodernism, organized chronologically. Some of the earliest movements included cave painting from the Stone Age focused on fertility and megalithic structures. Mesopotamian art featured warrior themes in stone relief, while Egyptian art centered on afterlife themes through pyramids and tomb paintings. Greek and Hellenistic art emphasized balance and proportions through architectural orders. Roman art stressed practical realism through forms like the arch. Later movements include Byzantine and Islamic heavenly mosaics and architecture, Renaissance rebirth of classical styles, Baroque splendor, Impressionist light effects, Cubist experiments, Abstract Expressionist abstraction, and Postmodern mixing of styles.

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Stone Age (30,000 b.c.)–2500 b.c.) Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.

Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions;
structures architectural
orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)

Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.) Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)


Warrior art and narration in stone relief Roman realism: practical and down to earth;
the arch

Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.) Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653


Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and b.c.–a.d. 1900)
tomb painting Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the
Floating World
Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476– Venetian and Northern Renaissance
a.d.1453) (1430–1550)
Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic The Renaissance spreads north- ward to
architecture and amazing France, the Low
maze-like design Countries, Poland, Germany, and England

Middle Ages (500–1400) Mannerism (1527–1580)


Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature
Romanesque, Gothic)

Baroque (1600–1750)
Early and High Renaissance (1400–
1550) Splendor and flourish for God; art as a
Rebirth of classical culture weapon in the religious
wars
Neoclassical (1750–1850) Impressionism (1865–1885)

Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
grandeur

Romanticism (1780–1850) Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)


The triumph of imagination and individuality A soft revolt against Impressionism

Realism (1848–1900) Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–


1935)
Celebrating working class and peasants;  en plein
air Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion
rustic painting distorting
form
Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Abstract Expressionism (1940s–
Constructivism, De Stijl 1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)
(1905–1920) Post–World War II: pure abstraction and
expression
Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new without form; popular art absorbs consumerism
forms to express modern life

Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950) Postmodernism and


Deconstructivism (1970–)
Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the
unconscious Art without a center and reworking and mixing
past styles

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