visual arts timeline

VISUAL ARTS TIMELINE

Aesthetic TheoryMs. Thelma Ll.

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Prehistoric

Egyptian

Archaic

Hellenic

Hellenistic

Roman

Early Christian

Byzantine

Romanesque

Gothic

Renaissance

Mannerism A style characterized by distorted perspective, scale, and

proportion, especially in long stretched-out figures

BaroqueIt is most often defined as "the dominant style of art in Europe

between the Mannerist and Rococo eras, a style characterized by

dynamic movement, overt emotion and self-confident rhetoric

RococoAn 18th century style which developed as Baroque artists

gave up their symmetry and became increasingly more

ornate, florid, and playful.

NeoclassicismRefers to the classical revival in European art, architecture,

and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the

early nineteenth century.

RomanticismA style that found its subject the world of the dramatic and

exotic

RealismA style in which everyday scenes and events are

painted as they actually look

Art Nouveau French for 'new art‘

An international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art especially the decorative arts.

ExpressionismA style that emphasized highly emotional feelings by using

strong colors, distorted forms, and bold, simplified lines.

DadaismIt began as an anti-art movement, in the sense that it rejected the way art

was appreciated and defined in contemporary art scenes.

SurrealismA style of painting based on dreams, the fantastic, and the

irrational

ImpressionismA style that attempted to capture the rapidly changing effects

of light on objects

Fauvism (French word-wild beast) A movement wherein artists used wild, intense color

combinations in their paintings

PointillismA technique in which small, carefully placed dots of color are

used to create forms

CubismA style in which objects are shown from several

different angles at once.

Abstract ExpressionismA style where paint is dribbled, spilled, or splashed onto huge

canvases to express paintings as an action.

Modern Art Refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly

from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the

art produced during that era

Large Reclining Nude, Henri Matisse, 1935

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).

Portrait of Dora Maar Pablo Picasso

Reclining Nude, 1969 by Picasso

, La Gran Tenochtitlán, 1945,

Diego Rivera

Pop ArtAn art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the

1960s.