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Egyptian (3100 - 30 bc)
Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramid, Bust of NefertitiArt with an afterlife focus; pyramids, tomb paintings
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Greek & Hellenistic (850-31 bc)
Parthenon, Myron, Phidas, Polykleitos, PraxitelesGreek idealism; balance
perfect proportion: architectural
(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)
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Roman (500 bc - 478 ad)
Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan's Column, Pantheon
Roman realism: practical/down to earthThe arch
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Byzantine and Islamic (476-1453 ad)
Artists: Hagia, Sophia, Andrei Rubley
Heavenly Byzantine mosaics
Islamic Architecture: Mosque of Córdoba
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Early High Renaissance (1400-1550)
Artists: Donatello, Ghiberti, Leonard da Vinci
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Venetian & Northern Renaissance (1430-1550)
Artists: Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Bosch, Jan van Eyck
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Mannerism (1527-1580)
Artists: Parmigianino, Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori, Tintoretto
Notable Works: Madonna with the Long Neck, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Entombment.
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Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Bronzino High-Mannerism
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Mosque of Cordoba, No Flying buttresses
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Baroque (1600-1750)
Artists: Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio
Light coming though the dark
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The Cambrai Madonna, Byzantine
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Jan van Eyck, Venetian Renaissance
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Roman statue, natural pose
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Seated Boxer, Hellenistic 50 bc
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Neoclassical (1750-1850)
Artists: Jacques-Louis David, J.A.D Ingres, Anton Raphael Mengs, Antonio Canova
Message: Reaction against Rococo, emotional charge of Baroque. Renewed interest in classical forms & ideas.
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Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David, Neoclassical
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Romanticism (1780-1850)
Artists: Caspar David Friedrich, Eugene Delacroix, Benjamin West, Thomas Cole, Francisco Goya
Beliefs: Reaction against scientific rationalization of nature, and aristocratic social/political norms of Age of Enlightenment. Shows the sublime.
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The Bard, Thomas Cole, Hudson River School/Romanticism
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Death of Sardanapalus, Eugéne Delacroix
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El Tres de Mayo, Francisco Goya
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Realism (1848-1900)
Artists: Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet
Celebrates working class, en plein air rustic paintingReaction against Neoclassicism & Romanticism
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Impressionism (1865-1885)
Artists: Monet, Manet, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Degas, Pissarro, Morisot
Captures light, soft looking
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Post Impressionism (1885-1910)
Artists: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cexanne, Seurat
Rejects limitations of impressionism, but uses vivid colors, thick application of paint, real life subjects, brush strokes
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 The Card Player
Cézanne
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Fauvism (1904-1908)
Means "Wild beasts"
Artists: Henri Marisse, André Derain, Kees van Dongen
Beliefs: bold color, painterly application
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Charing Cross Bridge, André Derain
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Cubism
Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Late works of Paul Cézanne
Style: Broken up, reassembled and abstracted. 2D image showing passage of time and 3D space.
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Futurism
Artists: Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni
Manifesto, disgust with all that is old. especially Art and politics. Rebelled against harmony and good taste, glorified science, violence. Anarchic.
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Unique Froms of Continuity in Space, Umberto Boccioni
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Cyclist, Natalie Goncharova, Futurism
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Dada (1917-1950)
Artists: Max Ernest, Marcel Duchamp, André Brenton, Man Ray, Hannah Hoch, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball, Francis Picabia.
Belief: Anti-art, absurd, abstract, against cultural and intellectual conformity.
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Surrealism (1917-1950)
Artists: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, André Breton.
Beliefs: Surprise, juxtaposition, non sequitur. Dreams and expression of philosophy. Revolutionary movement.
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Pop Art
Artists: Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg.
Belief: Using mass media, advertising, comics & consumer products and elevating commonplace items into "fine art".
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Overdrive, Robert Rauschenberg
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