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Art Timeline Flashcards

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In this period, cave paintings and stone sculptures are evident

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Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Period)

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In this period, architecture, carvings in stone pottery and furniture are exhibited

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New Stone Age (Neolithic Period)

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In this period, War art, propaganda art, or religious and tomb art are shown. This art is often macho, also refined, and sometimes comic and imaginative

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Mesopotamian Period

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Used visual narrative although it is less dramatic and realistic along with its symmetrical, rigid but elegant and highly colorful art

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Ancient Egyptian Period

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Playful and focuses on life, sport, religious rituals, and daily pleasures which truly celebrates day-to-day life.

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Minoan Period

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Has both Archaic Period and Classical Period

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Ancient Greek Period

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Has the Kouros Statue which represents old order and aristocracy

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Archaic Period

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Has the Kritios Boy Statue representing democracy

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Classical Period

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Physically perfect instead of imperturbably serene, can express anger, bitter, sorrow, or fear. This was the first time emotions were dramatically and realistically portrayed

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Hellenistic Period

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This period saw death as a continuation of life, has temples as nearly square, tombs are bleak and some artwork depicts demons.

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Etruscan Period

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Practical and looked life squarely in their eye. Their art has this unflinching realism

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Roman Period

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Symbolic and less naturalistic than Greek and Roman art that inspired it

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Byzantine Period

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Hass no art traditions as it was gravely banned, although Muslims borrowed from the people they conquered and soon developed their own style which can be seen mostly in architecture.

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Islamic Period

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Mostly Christian art, with steeped in mysticism and symbolism and was not concerned with realism

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Medieval Period

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Came from italian word Rinascimento and underwent period of enlightenment as artist learned to appreciate cultural subjects

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High Renaissance

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Rinascimento

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Rebirth

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Came from the Italian “Maniera” where artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari used in the 16th century

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Mannerism

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Artistic side of Catholicism’s comeback during the counter reformation

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Baroque Period

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From the french word Rocaille, method of decorating furniture with pebbles and seashells and has fluid asymmetrical forms, elaborate ornamentation, lighter pastel colors, and whimsical narratives

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Rococo Period

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Another return to Greco-Roman Classicism. Dignified art that depicts men and women as if they were greek gods and heroes.

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Neoclassicism

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Mostly about intense personal expression, so artists could focus on whatever turned them on

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Romanticism

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Reasserted the integrity of the physical world by stripping it of what they viewed as Romantic dreaminess or fuzziness

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Realism

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Designed to counter the adverse effects of the industrial revolution and brought back mysticism in the middle ages

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Favored handmade furniture and decorative arts. founded by William Morris

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Arts and Crafts Movement

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Started by several french artists who broke the tradition by painting outside

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Impressionism

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Means the act of painting outside

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En Plein Air

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Extension of impressionism but rejects some limitations, continues to use bold colors and painting scenes as they left behind spontaneous and naturalistic rendering of light and movement

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Post Impressionism

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Short-lived movement headed by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, a flattened perspective which made the paintings look less like a window into the world and more like a wallpaper. Inspiring and decorative and fun to look at

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Fauvism

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Found in poetry and paintings, presents the world solely from a subjective point of view. Offered viewers a new meaning to what is considered beautiful

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Expressionism

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One of the most important art movement of the 20th Century. Two dimensional with geometric forms and flat as it show viewpoints of the subject on the same plane which opened a door for abstract and movement

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Cubism

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Characterized by the power of machines and restless energy of modern life

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Futurism

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Spawned from the madness of WW1, rejected all logic, reason, and order of western civilization that caused the horrors of war. “Anti-war” movement

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Dadaism

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Explored the inner workings of mind and to revolutionize the human experience by using automatism to draw inspiration. Challenges perceptions and reality by juxtaposing unrealistic subject matter with realistic painting style

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Surrealism

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Lead by Kazimir Malevich which strove to free feeling from form.

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Suprematism

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Art movement using geometric shapes and industrial materials for social purposes. Ordinary workers could use and represented modern utopia

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Constructivism

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Art movement is artistic geometry and its head is Piet Mondrian, achieved with few shapes and primary colors an has two type of beauty: Objective and Subjective

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De Stijl

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Movement incorporated the dark trauma of war and has both movement of action painters and color filled painters

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Abstract Expressionism

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Art movement with a new style used in advertising, packaging, comics, and movies. Imaginative as they use repetition, bold imagery, and bright color palettes to introduce art to new demographics

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Pop Art

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Often type of performance that can be spontaneous and audience driven

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Conceptual Art

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Linked with conceptual art as it focuses on the inequalities faced by women trying to provoke change

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Feminist Art

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Artist view contemporary society as fragment of world. Style on this movement encompassed styles from the past and reflects contemporary society

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Postmodernism

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Style where the artist applies paint to express emotions and feelings in a spontaneous way

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Abstract Expessionism

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Massive-sized canvas with large areas composed of more or less flat or single-painted color

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Color Field

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Style showing subjects that appeal to humans’ vision and intuition. Includes mysticism, religion, mythology, philosophy, and desire to penetrate the human soul

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Fantastic Realism

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Using algorithms, transformations, and morphing to generate art from a computer

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Computer Art

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Focuses more on idea, concept behind the work of art than the actual technical skill or aesthetic

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Conceptual Art

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Defined by action, activity, occasion, or experience to confront people’s conventional views of the category “art.”

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Happenings

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Sculpture that moves with the mind or powered by machines or electricity

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Kinetic Art

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Installations of radiant, neon light, or projecting from the wall to create mysterious glowing columns placed within a darkened room

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Light and Space

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Art that focuses on basic elements, uses the fewest and simplest possible lines and geometrics needed

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Minimalism

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Art with an anti-aesthetic agenda that uses collage, assemblage, and found materials

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Neo-Dada

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Uses lines or images repeatedly to create optical illusion

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Op Art

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Combines variety of media and human body to execute an artistic theatrical expression before a live audience

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Performance Art

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Uses body as medium or main material in a public act

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Body Art

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Involves artistic creation or manipulation of space, landscape, that may enclose its audience

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Environmental Art

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Tackles issues of identity, sexuality, gender roles, equality, and ways in which females are treated in society

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Feminist Art

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Located in three-dimensional interior space often site-specific to create relationship between the art and its viewers

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Installation Art

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Style that evolved as a reaction to minimalism, emphasizes artistic process and conception of finished art. Uses nontraditional, poor materials

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Post Minimalism

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Consists of images that are recorded through a video and viewed through television, computer, or projection screen

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Video Art

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Reaction to minimalism and conceptualism in a form of large paintings, fabric pieces, and sculptures emphasizing patterns and decorations

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Pattern and Decoration

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Makes use of electronic media to produce computer-generated art. Associated with digital and computer art

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Electronic Art

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Mostly seen on public wall surfaces that uses words or figure drawings to create images

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Graffiti Art

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