Art Timeline

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Paleolithic

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(1)
-Stone cutting
-Hand sized female figures
-Cave paintings
--> petroglyphs

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Egyptian

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(2)
One of the first large, civilized societies with organized religion and a written language.
-Architecture
--> pyramids
-Painting
--> wall paintings
-Sculpture
--> pharaohs, coffins
-Religious and dominate government

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Greek

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(3)
-Emphasis on humankind
--> natural figure, individual focus
-Architecture
-->Parthenon
-Government
-->Democracy

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Roman

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(4)
-Encompassed many cultures
-Practical materialistic people
-->a lot was copied/adapted from Greeks
-Increased the naturalisticness of human representation
--> known for dome, Pantheon and concrete

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Byzantine

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(5)
-Christian continuum of the Roman Empire
-Basilica
-->Christian churches
-Mosaics
-Depictions of Christ and other religious figures

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Medieval/Animal

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(6)
-Early Christian mixed with invaders
-Migrants; small, portable objects like weapons, bridals and personal adornments
--> active, intertwining shapes
-->> rarely depicts human figures

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Renaissance

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(7)
-Achievement and worldwide exploration
--> combo of individualism and technology
-Revival of Greeks and Roman ideas
-Intro of linear perspective
-Sistine Chapel, David

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Baroque

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(8)
-Energy and feeling, dramatic use of light, scale and balance
--> new, vivid realism
-Inspired by the counter-reformation of the Roman Catholic Church

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Rococo

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(9)
-Light, playful version of the Baroque
--> Versailles
-Extravagent, frivolous with lighthearted abandon

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Neo Classical

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(10)
-Rejection of the frivolity of Rococo
-Emulation of Classic Greek and Roman art
-->portrayed civil duties
-Inspired architecture

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Romantic

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(11)
-New wave of emotion and expression
--> emphasis of feeling over fact
--> strong viewer involvement

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Realism

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(12)
-Depicts ordinary existence without idealism, exoticism or nostalgia
--> art should deal with human experience and observation
-Tubes of oil paint made painting outside possible
-Taking old subject matter and depicting it in new ways

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Impressionism

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(13)
-Opposed academic doctrines and Romantic ideals
-Portrayed contemporary life
--> "Impressions" of what the eyes see
-"Impressions"
--> sketchy quality of their paintings
-Beauty of the world is a gift and forces of nature as aids to human progress

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Post-Impressionism

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(14)
-Built on or reacted to Impressionism in individual ways
--> expressive, emotional intensity; desire to make their thoughts and feelings visible
-Not a cohesive style
--> Individual artists made their own styles

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Fauvism

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(15)
-Artists imprisoned by pointillism found ways to escape
--> intensified color and more subjective
--> More free form of art
-Expressive form of art

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Cubism

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(16)
-Spatial design
--> color is secondary to structure
-Departure pf tradition
-Rational, formalistic counterpart to the subjective emphasis of the expressionists
-Reconstruction of objects based on geometric abstraction

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Expressionism

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(17)

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Dada

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(18)
-In protest of WWI and corrupt values
--> set out to overturn narrow-minded values
--> rejected most moral, social, political and aesthetic values
-Used play and spontaneity
-Photomontage

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DeStijl/International

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(19)
-Inspired by Cubism
--> Creation of a world in universal harmony
-Reduction of painting into line, shape, color and space
-new visual language in architecture
--> Steel, plate glass and reinforced concrete

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Surrealism

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(20)
-Make visible the imagery of the unconscious
--> two states; dreams and reality
-Includes both abstract and representational surrealism