Art History: The Poor Man’s Tour
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Art History: The Poor Man’s Tour
Prehistoric Art (15,000 – 10,000 BC) 1. Lascaux Cave Paintings (southern
France) 2. Communication 3. Rituals/magic 4. Style: Stylized (slightly simplified)
Ancient Egypt (3,000 – 800 BC) 1. Stone Tablet 2. Communication 3. Honor Kings and Queens 4. Style: Stylized
Ancient Greece (800- 400 BC) 1. The Discus Thrower (Myron) 2. Communication 3. Honored the Gods, rulers,
special events 4. Style: Classical _Emphasis on
perfection of human form. 5. (Representational)
Ancient Rome (400 BC – 150 AD) 1. Augustus Prima Porta 2. Mostly created to honor political
figures 3. Style: (Representational /
Classical) * Romans copied the Greeks
The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD) 1. The creation of Adam
(Michelangelo) 2. Mostly religious (Christianity) 3. Rebirth (Greek Classical style) 4. Style: (Representational)
The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD) 1. Mona Lisa (Leonardo) 2. Mostly religious (Christianity) 3. Rebirth (Greek Classical style) 4. Style: (Representational)
Baroque (1600 – 1700) 1. The Night Watch (Rembrandt) 2. Mostly religious 3. Dramatic use of light, theatrical, and
movement 4. Style: Representational
Rococo (1700 – 1800) 1. Used pastel colors, very playful and light-hearted subject matter, laced with curvilinear motifs 2. Style: Representational
Romanticism (1800s)
1. Raft of the Medusa (Theodore Delacroix)
2. Intense colors, emotional, heroic subject matter,
3. Created in opposition to Neo-classicism
4. Style: Representational
Neo-Classicism (1880s)
1. Jupiter (Jean Dominque Ingre) 2. An artistic style which referred
back to the Classical style of Greece
3. Style: Representational
Impressionism (late 1800s – early 1900s) “The beginning of Modern Art”
1. Woman and Child Driving (Mary Cassatt)
2. Average people represented 3. The artist tried to capture the fleeting
effects (or impressions) of light, shade, and color on natural forms
4. Style: Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (late 1800s – early 1900s
1. A Starry Night (Vincent Van Gogh) 2. Average people represented 3. The artist tried to capture the fleeting
effects (or impressions) of light, shade, and color on natural forms
4. Style: Impressionism/expressionism
Fauvism (1900s)
1. The Green Stripe (Henri Matisse) 2. A style that developed in France
that featured Bold and Arbitrary colors
3. Style: Expressionism
Expressionism (early 1900s – late 1900s) 1. The Scream (Edvard Munch) 2. Communication: Express
feelings/emotions 3. Natural forms 4. Style: Expressionism: Expressing
feelings and emotions through color
Cubism (1907 present) 1. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (Pablo
Picasso) 2. Artist unique vision of the world 3. Natural forms 4. Style: Abstract: severe simplification of
forms (basic shapes)
DaDa (Early 1900s)
1. Bicycle Wheel (Marcel Duchamp) 2. An art movement that emerged
during WWI that was “anti-art” and poked fun at established traditions, and was deliberately shocking and sometimes vulgar
Surrealism (Early 1900s)
1. Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)
2. Imagery from dreams and fantasies
Art Since 1945
Abstract Expressionism (1940s – 1950s) 1. Blue Poles (Jackson Pollock) 2. Communication: feelings and emotion 3. Non-objective forms 4. Style: Non-objective
Color Field Painting (1940s – 1950s)
1. White Over Red (Mark Rothko) 2. Large fields of color ment to
evoke an aesthetic or emotional response through color alone
Neo-dada (1950s)
1. First Landing (Robert Rauschenberg)
2. Mixed media assemblages (junk art)
Pop Art (1960s)
1. Marilyn (Andy Warhol) 2. Art that derived its imagery
from popular mass-produced culture
Minimalism (1960s - )
1. Core Piece (Donald Judd) 2. “ABC Art” a rejection of
expressive content in favor of formal issues and industrial materials
Architecture 1. The Guggenheim Museum of Art
(Frank Lloyd Wright 2. 1956 3. Celebration of man-made materials 4. Style: Organic Architecture
Photo–Realism Painting (1970s)
1. Air Stream Trailer (Richard Estes)
Super-Realism Sculpture (1970s)
1. Woman with Shopping Cart (Duane Hanson)
Environmental Sculpture/Earthworks (1970s)
1. Spiral Jetty (Robert Smithson)
Conceptual Art (1960s – 1970s)
1. Wooden Chair with Fat (Joseph Beuys)
2. Fluxius Art Movement: art that is in a constant state of change