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10,000 BCE
Paleolithic
It is the oldest of the prehistoric periods. It is characterized by the manufacture and use of carved stone tools, the practice of predation, nomadism and the appearance of the first artistic manifestations, such as cave paintings and stone or bone sculptures. -
Period: 10,000 BCE to 200 BCE
PREHISTORY
Period in the history of humanity that includes from the origin of man to the appearance of the first written testimonies. -
8000 BCE
Neolithic
It is characterized by the development of the productive economy (implantation of agriculture and livestock), a sedentary lifestyle and the appearance of the first towns, the use of polished stone and ceramics, and the construction of megalithic monuments. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
OLD AGE
The Ancient Age is a traditional period, used in the periodization of human history, defined by the emergence and development of the first civilizations that had writing, called "ancient civilizations".
It was the initial period of history itself, started with the invention of writing, preceded by prehistory. -
3500 BCE
Mesopotamic art
Mesopotamian art is a chronological and geographical division of art history that deals with Mesopotamia during the Ancient age.
It refers to the artistic expressions of the cultures that were born on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. -
146 BCE
Greek art
El Arte Griego marca un referente para la civilización occidental que perdurará hasta nuestros días.
Los modelos griegos de la antigüedad son tenidos como clásicos y los cánones escultóricos y los estilos arquitectónicos han sido recreados una y otra vez a lo largo de la historia de Occidente. -
Period: 476 to 1492
MIDDLE AGE
La Edad Media es considerada como una etapa de oscurantismo, retroceso en materia de artes, ciencias y humanidades y predominio absoluto de la fe cristiana como doctrina única de pensamiento. -
1000
Romanesque art
Romanesque art was the first Christian and European style that brought together the different options that had been used in the early Middle Ages (Roman, pre-Romanesque, Byzantine, Germanic and Arabic) and managed to formulate a specific and coherent language applied to all artistic manifestations . -
1200
Gothic art
El arte gótico se manifestó solo en las disciplinas ligadas a lo estético (arquitectura, pintura y escultura), en manifestaciones humanas con posibilidad de consagrarse a Dios, ya que el estilo gótico le da preeminencia a lo religioso. -
1453
Renaissance
In the Renaissance, the transition from a feudal society based on agrarian activity to a mercantile society and supported by the value of the Nation.
The fundamental characteristic is that for the first time the figure of man as a creator occupies a central place. -
Period: 1492 to
MODERN AGE
The Modern Age is considered an era of consolidation of the ideals of progress, communication and reason, which will be considered from then on the values of modernity and will remain valid until today. -
Baroque
It is an art that exposes the taste for the elegant, the extravagant and the excess of ornament.
Seek spirituality, sensations and inner passions.
Contrast between light and shadow.
Sense of movement.
Darkness, complexity and sensualism. -
Classicism
He proposed to return to the aesthetic and philosophical values of classical antiquity: simplicity, unity, sobriety, rationality, harmony and mimesis (imitation of reality). -
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism It represents the bourgeois class that found itself increasingly stronger with respect to the nobility.
It shows rationality, clarity and functionality as a symbol, emphasizing man, progress and questions the value of the church.
In his works the representation of morality as the basis of the new society is observed. -
Period: to
CONTEMPORARY AGE
Contemporary age is called the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and today. It is a time characterized by revolutions and by great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations. -
Romanticism
Romanticism was characterized by subjectivity, the sublime, nature, Nationalism, nostalgia for the past, individualism, misunderstood genius and dreamlike character. -
Impressionism
Impressionist painters used quick, spontaneous, loose, large brush strokes.
This technique separated them from traditional-style painting, which required invisible brush strokes to make the painting highly realistic. -
Avant-garde art
The main characteristic of the avant-garde is freedom of expression, which manifests itself by altering the structure of the works, tackling taboo subjects and disorganizing creative parameters. -
Expressionism
Expressionism is a deformation of reality expressing it in a more subjective way.
The expressionists believed that they should capture the most intimate feelings of the human being. Existential anguish is the main engine of its aesthetics. -
Cubism
Cubism represents reality through geometric figures, producing a disruptive and fragmented visual effect. Places objects on the same plane, rejecting the real appearance of things and their depth. -
Virtual art
Virtual art allows you to create alternative worlds as a form of expression, they are not physical, but they have an original reality, since different techniques are used such as programming the physics of the environment, three-dimensional modeling and the behavior of its objects. -
Period: to
CURRENT AGE
It is a phase characterized by the birth of the industry, by advances in scientific research, by the improvement of technology and by the constant evolution of the means of communication and transport. -
Graffiti art
In graffiti art the author never leaves his signature, but it is about groups or organizations, these leave traces that can be identified. They are sectors of social minorities and their messages imply a break with the established system.
