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