ch 3: how do i study art?: reading art Flashcards by Keith P

The history of art is immense, the earliest cave paintings pre-date writing by almost 27,000 years. If you are interested in art history, the first thing you should do is to take at these tables which briefly outlines the artists, traits, works, and events that make up major art periods and how art evolved to present day:

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Cave painting

Characteristics

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

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fertility goddesses

Characteristics

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

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megalithic structures

Characteristics

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

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Stone Age characteristics

Cave painting,
fertility goddesses,
megalithic structures

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Lascaux Cave Painting

Chief Artists and Major Works

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

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Woman of Willendorf

Chief Artists and Major Works

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

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Stonehenge

Chief Artists and Major Works

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

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Warrior art

Characteristics

Mesopotamian (3,500 b.c.– 539 b.c.)

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narration in stone relief

Characteristics

Mesopotamian (3,500 b.c.– 539 b.c.)

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Standard of Ur

Chief Artists and Major Works

Mesopotamian (3,500 b.c.– 539 b.c.)

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Gate of Ishtar

Chief Artists and Major Works

Mesopotamian (3,500 b.c.– 539 b.c.)

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Stele of Hammurabi’s Code

Chief Artists and Major Works

Mesopotamian (3,500 b.c.– 539 b.c.)

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Art with an afterlife focus

Characteristics

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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pyramids

Characteristics

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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tomb painting

Characteristics

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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Imhotep

Chief Artists and Major Works

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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Step Pyramid

Chief Artists and Major Works

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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Great Pyramids

Chief Artists and Major Works

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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Bust of Nefertiti

Chief Artists and Major Works

Egyptian (3,100 b.c.– 30 b.c.)

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Greek idealism

Characteristics

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

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balance

Characteristics

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

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perfect proportions

Characteristics

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

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architectural orders (Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian)

Characteristics

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

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architectural orders ## Footnote (enumerate)

- Doric, - Ionic, - Corinthian

Parthenon ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

Myron ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

Phidias ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

Polykleitos ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

Praxiteles ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.– 31 b.c.)

Roman realism ## Footnote Characteristics

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

practical ## Footnote Characteristics

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

down to earth ## Footnote Characteristics

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

the arc ## Footnote Characteristics

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

Augustus of Primaporta ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

Colosseum ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

Trajan's Column ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

Pantheon ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

Serene ## Footnote Characteristics

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

meditative art ## Footnote Characteristics

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Arts of the Floating World ## Footnote Characteristics

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Gu Kaizhi ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Li Cheng ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Guo Xi ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Hokusai ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Hiroshige ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese (653 b.c.– a.d. 1900)

Celtic art ## Footnote Characteristics

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Carolingian ## Footnote Characteristics

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Renaissance ## Footnote Characteristics

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Gothic ## Footnote Characteristics

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Romanesque ## Footnote Characteristics

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

St. Sernin ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Durham Cathedral ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Notre Dame ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Chartres ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Cimabue ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Duccio ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Giotto ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Middle Ages (500 - 1400)

Rebirth of classical culture ## Footnote Characteristics

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Ghiberti's Doors ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Brunnelleschi ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Donatello ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Botticelli ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Leonardo ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Michelangelo ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

Raphael ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Early and High Renaissance (1400 - 1550)

the Low Countries Poland, Germany and England ## Footnote Characteristics

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

The Renaissance spreads north-ward to France ## Footnote Characteristics

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Bellini ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Giorgione ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Titian ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Dṻrer ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Bruegel ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Bosch ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Jan van Eyck ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Rogier van der Weyden ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 - 1550)

Art that breaks the rules ## Footnote Characteristics

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

artifice over nature ## Footnote Characteristics

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

Tintoretto ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

Pontormo ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

El Greco ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

Cellini ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

Bronzino ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Mannerism (1527 - 1580)

Splendor ## Footnote Characteristics

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

flourish for God ## Footnote Characteristics

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

Reubens ## Footnote Characteristics

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

art as a weapon in the religious wars ## Footnote Characteristics

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

Palace of Versailles ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

Rembrandt ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

Caravaggio ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

Art that recaptures Greco-Roman (Greek and Roman) ## Footnote Characteristics

Neoclassical (1750 - 1850)

grace and grandeur ## Footnote Characteristics

Neoclassical (1750 - 1850)

David ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Neoclassical (1750 - 1850)

Ingres ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Neoclassical (1750 - 1850)

Greuze ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Neoclassical (1750 - 1850)

Canova ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Neoclassical (1750 - 1850)

The triumph of imagination and individuality ## Footnote Characteristics

Romanticism (1780 - 1850)

Caspar Friedrich ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Romanticism (1780 - 1850)

Gericault ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Romanticism (1780 - 1850)

Delacroix ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Romanticism (1780 - 1850)

Turner ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Romanticism (1780 - 1850)

Benjamin West ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Romanticism (1780 - 1850)

en plein air (outside) ## Footnote Characteristics

Realism (1848 - 1900)

rustic painting ## Footnote Characteristics

Realism (1848 - 1900)

Corot ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Realism (1848 - 1900)

Courbet ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Realism (1848 - 1900)

Daumier

Realism (1848 - 1900)

Millet ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Realism (1848 - 1900)

Celebrating working class and peasants; ## Footnote Characteristics

Realism (1848 - 1900)

Capturing fleeting effects of natural light ## Footnote Characteristics

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Monet ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Manet ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Renoir ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Morisot ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Pissarro ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Degas ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

Cassatt ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Impressionism (1865 - 1885)

A soft revolt against impressionism ## Footnote Characteristics

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)

Van Gogh ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)

Gauguin ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)

Harsh colors and flat surfaces ## Footnote Characteristics

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 - 1935) | (Fauvism)

Cézanne ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)

Seurat ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1910)

emotion distorting form ## Footnote Characteristics

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 - 1935)

Matisse ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 - 1935)

Kirchner ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 - 1935)

Kandinsky ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 - 1935)

Marc ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900 - 1935)

Pre- and Post- World War I art experiments ## Footnote Characteristics

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

new forms to express modern life ## Footnote Characteristics

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Picasso ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Braque ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Leger ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Boccioni ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Malevich ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Severini ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Cubism, Futurism, Supermatism, Constructivism, De Stijl (The Style - Dutch) (1905 - 1920)

Ridiculous art ## Footnote Characteristics

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

painting dreams ## Footnote Characteristics

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

exploring the unconscious ## Footnote Characteristics

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

Duchamp ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

Dali ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

Ernst ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

Magritte ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

de Chirico ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

Kahlo ## Footnote Chief Artists and Major Works

Dada and Surrealism (1917 - 1950)

Post-World War II ## Footnote Characteristics