History of Art

By Mr.e
  • 28,000 BCE

    Art from PREHISTORY

    Art from PREHISTORY
    Prehistory is dated as 2,500,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE. Prehistory is undocumented record of human history not by written documentation. But is record by cave art, which is tell a story without written letters or a common language. They will use animal blood and berries to create colors. Also the art work use is called Venus of willendof it was made between 28,000 25,000.
  • Period: 20,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    Prehistory

  • 14,000 BCE

    Paleolithic Artwork

    Paleolithic Artwork
    Paleolithic refers to the period between approximately 40,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its name parts are paleo meaning old and lithic meaning stone put them together you get old stone age.
  • 13,000 BCE

    Mesolithic Art

    Mesolithic Art
    Mesolithic period is known as middle stone age it's between Paleolithic and Neolithic period in time , in which people hunted and collected food for example berries.
  • 10,000 BCE

    Neolithic

    Neolithic
    Neolithic is the last phase in the stone age, when man started domestication of animals and development of agriculture.
  • Period: 2686 BCE to 2134 BCE

    Egypt the old kingdom

  • 2649 BCE

    Old kingdom of Egypt

    Old kingdom of Egypt
    The Old Kingdom Of Egypt it is the first of three Kingdoms from 2686 to 2183 from the third dynasty to the sixth dynasty. The first king was king Djoser. They created first life size portraits from wood, copper and stone.
  • 2504 BCE

    Egypt Middle Kingdom

    Egypt Middle Kingdom
    The Middle Kingdom of Egypt was from dynasty 11 to dynasty 13. The time period was 2030 to 1640 BC it began when Nebhepetre mentuhoptep reunited upper and lower Egypt. In this time period they did landscape like pyramids and complex sarcophagus.
  • Period: 2050 BCE to 1810 BCE

    Egypt middle kingdom

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE

    Egypt new kingdom

  • 1323 BCE

    Egypt new kingdom

    Egypt new kingdom
    The New Kingdom of Egypt was 18,19,20 dynasties of Egypt , the time period was 1570 to 1070 it was Egypt high point. They created complex coffins called sarcophagus they also used hieroglyphics as there way to communicate. Hieroglyphics were drawing of symbols that told a story. Also in Akhenaten rule the Egypt moved from many gods to one god, but later switch back to many gods.
  • Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE

    Ancient Greek

  • 540 BCE

    Ancient Greek Archaic era

    Ancient Greek Archaic era
    Ancient Greek period was eighth century BC to the Persian invasion of Greece in 480. The Archaic era was 800 to 480 BC. In this time period they created works of art called black figure style, which told a story in this artwork it told story of Exekia Achilles killing Penthesilea.
  • 480 BCE

    Ancient Greek Classical era

    Ancient Greek Classical era
    The Ancient Greek Classical era was firth to fourth century BC, which Greek fought Persians and the civil war of Athenians who won and Spartans who lost. The Classical era started at war with Persian to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. In this time period they created master level architecture like the Parthenon and they had philosophers like Socrates and the Greek tragedy. Also this artwork is red figure style which tells the story of warfare of Ancient Greek.
  • 100 BCE

    Ancient Greek Hellenistic period

    Ancient Greek Hellenistic period
    Ancient Greek Hellenistic period from Alexander the Great rule to his death from 323 until 31 BC. Alexander the Great stretched Greece to India. Hellenize means to speak Greek. They had white figure style which tells a story. Also the artwork is called The Boxer.
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    Early Medieval Art

    Early Medieval Art
    Early Medieval Art has huge story covering vast time so start with also called the dark age. In this time Christianity was the belief and the church had most power even the king had to listen to the church. In this time period they had manuscripts and codex which were made from animal skin.In which they would talk about the bibles are give orders to high ups. since only people of the church and nobles can read.
  • Period: 500 to Nov 30, 800

    Early medieval

  • Period: Nov 29, 1000 to Nov 30, 1200

    Romanesque

  • Nov 29, 1093

    Romanesque Art

    Romanesque Art
    Romanesque Art was the time period 1000 AD to the rise of Gothic art. They created architecture with influence from Romans like Roman basilica, churches and cathedrals. The church believe that art can help people find god.
  • Period: Nov 29, 1200 to Nov 30, 1400

    Gothic Art

  • Nov 29, 1235

    Gothic Art

    Gothic Art
    Gothic Art was after the Romanesque period in this time period they created sculpture on walls telling stories from the old and new testament. They also created works of art for church to show religion and almost every thing had go through the church.
  • Period: Nov 29, 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: Nov 29, 1400 to Nov 30, 1490

    Italian Early Renaissance

  • Nov 29, 1432

    Renaissance Italian Early Renaissance

    Renaissance Italian Early Renaissance
    Renaissance is the rebirth of the classic arts. Italy was the first to under go the rebirth, since they recover from the black death faster then the other places. In its early time period the brought back classic artwork like Greek and also not just a rebirth for art, but also a rebirth for science. In start they created sculptures from the Greek work. Then later work many new ideas but stayed with the religious theme. Also the artwork is Ghent Altarpiece it was created by Hubert Van Eyck.
  • Period: Nov 29, 1490 to Nov 30, 1530

    High Renaissance

  • Period: Nov 29, 1500 to

    Northern Renaissance

  • Nov 29, 1503

    High Renaissance

    High Renaissance
    High Renaissance was a explosion of creative genius with artist like Michelangelo, Raphael and the great Leonardo da Vinci. This artwork is one of Da Vinci great artwork called the Mona Lisa.
  • Nov 30, 1503

    Northern Renaissance

    Northern Renaissance
    Northern Renaissance a new class was created and new money like the merchants had the capital to buy artwork. Also in this time had van Eyck. Also this artwork is Bosch garden of Earthly delights.
  • Period: to

    Barque

  • Baroque

    Baroque
    Baroque artwork that shows motion and creates drama with tension. By self it can tell a story the artwork is called The Crowing with thorns by Caravaggio. Also the artist will use dark colors to show emotion and type of feel to it like its a sad moment in the time period are in the painting.
  • Period: to

    Romanticism

  • Period: to

    Realism

  • Romanticism Art

    Romanticism Art
    Romanticism Art are emotionally its painting show war or life and death positions.The artist will use many colors and loose brush work. This artwork is called Liberty leading the people by Eugene Delacroix.
  • Realism Artwork

    Realism Artwork
    Realism Artwork the artistic movement and the beginning of the modern era. The time was changing and young nineteenth century artist want more of real life to reflect the time and their own view of the world.This artwork is called The stone breakers by Gustave Courbet.
  • Period: to

    Modern Art

  • Period: to

    Impressionism

  • Impressionism Artwork

    Impressionism Artwork
    Impressionism Artwork in the beginning the people view this artwork as unfinished artwork and that crazily to sell this as finish artwork. Because of this it got its name from impression and the point was to capture movement.This artwork is called Little Girl in blue armchair by Mary Cassatt.
  • Modern Artwork

    Modern Artwork
    Modern Artwork is from 1860 to the 1970, in which shows case tradition and political and real life. Also in modern art includes Cubism.This artwork is called A bar at the folies Bergere by Edouard Manet.
  • Period: to

    Pablo Picasso

  • Picasso Artwork

    Picasso Artwork
    Picasso Artwork, Picasso is a famous artist who once quote " When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to draw like them." This man could draw great , also he was influence by many culture like french for example and African culture. This artwork is called woman ironing by Picasso.
  • Cubism Artwork

    Cubism Artwork
    Cubism Artwork, in this time period painters rejected the idea that art should complete copy nature or use perspective, but disassemble and resemble art and use many colors use won't see in nature. This artwork is called fauvism by Georges Braque.
  • Period: to

    Cubism Artwork

  • Period: to

    Surrealism Artwork

  • Period: to

    Abstract Expressionism

  • Surrealism Artwork

    Surrealism Artwork
    Surrealism Artwork, surrealist wanted to bring and unlock the imagination of people with their artwork. By confusing people by tricks to confuse the mind, this most likely come to people dreams after seeing it. This is called the son of man by Rene Magritte.
  • Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism
    Abstract Expressionism The artwork was made to have people have different view point and have hard time to figure it out what the artist wanted to say illustrate and also have their own idea of what the artist was thinking at the time or want it to be. This artwork is called Canyon by Robert Rauschenbery.