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History of art Timeline - Coggle Diagram
History of art Timeline
Prehistoric Art
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Comprised of many cave paintings, murals and scultpures
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Examples: Hall of Bulls (Lascaux, France c15,000 BC)
and Venus of Berekhat Ram
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Society: formed around hunting and gathering, Society: formed around hunting and gathering, Usage of arrows and axes to carve art was common
Classical Greek
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Common forms include marble temples, realistic stone sculptures and clay pottery
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Examples: Pergamon altar (180-160BC), Venus Milo (100 BC), The marble metopes of the Panthenon
Early Byzantine Art
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Depicted many Christian imagery (prophets, Heaven, etc.) and figures in forms of churches, mosaics, interiors, icons, etc.
Influenced by the popular rise of Christianity when adopted by Emperor Constantine and the move of his capital to Constantinople
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High Renaissance
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Return to the themes of humanity, individualism and emotion;
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A cultural rebirth occurred in Italy, there was a demand to Return to Classic Greek and Roman Art
Examples: The Last Supper, Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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New techniques were made like the ceiling paintings of quadratura and the sfuato technique that made paintings more real
Other influential groups like the Medici Family were commissioning art instead of the monarchy or the church
Baroque
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Appealed to classicism of the earlier Renaissance, but also returned religious imagery back into the spotlight.
Baroque movement was led by Catholic rulers, such as the Pope in Rome
Consisted of art, architecture and music.
To make pieces seem more sacred and ethereal, techniques like large central spaces, lighting coming from below, more movement and was very theatrical in nature.
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Romanticism
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The French Revolution and Enlightenment spread idealism, individualism and freedom
Romanticists celebrated the emotions, creativity and subjectivity of each member
Subjects were observations of the landscape, nature and traditions; often to evoke its power over humans
Examples: Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa (1804); The Ancient of Days from Europe a Prophecy copy B (1794)
Realism
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Industrial Revolution was followed by drastic, socio-economic changes
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Realism were critical of the negative actions of the upper economic and influential echelon of society
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Examples: Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 (1834),
The Gleaners (1857)
Impressionism
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Paintings looked more unfinished, imperfect and amateurish, opposed to the realistic and balanced looks of traditional painting, but that was what the eye perceived.
Examples:
Impression, Sunrise (1872); Fog, Voisins (1874)
Art Nouveau
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The quality of traditional artworks were poor, frivolous and amateurish; AN artists wanted to bring back adequacy to art
Examples: c (1891),
The Peacock Skirt (1894)