Art History Timeline

Prehistoric Art (c.30,000-2000 BC)

Cave painting, Hall of Bulls (Lascaux, France c15,000 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Art (c.3000-30BC)

Egyptian Tomb paintings. The Queen playing chess, (Tomb Nefertari, Thebes, c1255BC)

Classical Greek Art (c.500-320BC)

Myrons Discus Thrower (c.450BC) replica

Ancient Rome c.509BC-330AD

Colosseum, (70-80 AD, Temple of Peace, Rome)

Byzantine Art (c.300-1204)

Icon The Virgin Orans, (1037-61 mosaic, Saint Sophia

Cathedral, Kiev)

Gothic Art (c.1140-1500)

Chatres Cathedral, (1193-1250, central portal, France)

Early Renaissance (c.1300-1500)

Giotto, The Deposition, (c1304, fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy)

Renaissance Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Landscape with the Fall of

Icarus 1565

Northern Renaissance (c.1400-1500)

Jan Van Eyke, The Arnolfini Wedding, (1434, oil on wood panel, National Gallery London)

High Renaissance (c.1490-1527)

Vitruvian Man, Leonardo Da Vinci, (c.1485-90, pen and ink with wash over metal point on paper, Venice, Italy)

Mannerism (c.1520-1600)

Pontormo, Deposition from the Cross, (c.1526-8,oil on panel, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence)

Baroque (c.1600-1750)

Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, (1600-01, oil on canvas, National Gallery London)

Dutch Golden Age (c.1620-1700)

Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring, (1666-67, The Hague, oil on canvas)

Rococo (c.1700-1800)

Francois Boucher, Diane Bathing, (1742, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris)

Neo-Classicism (c.1750-1850)

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, (1784, Oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris)

Romanticism (c.1800-80)

Eugene Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, (1861, oil on canvas)

Ukiyo-e (c.17th-20th centuries)

Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, (1823-29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and British Museum, London)

Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1853)

Millais, Ophelia, (1851-52, Tate London, Oil on canvas)

Realism 1830s-50s

Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas, Musee D’Orsay Paris)

Impressionism 1870s-90s

Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876, Musee D’Orsay

Paris, oil on canvas)

Post-Impressionism (c.1880-1905)

Van Gogh, Starry Night, (1889, MOMA New York, oil on canvas)

Pointillism/Neo-Impressionism (1886-c1900)

Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte, (1884-86, oil on canvas, The Art Institute, Chicago.)

Art Nouveau 1890-1905

Gustave Klimt, The Kiss, (1907-08,oil and gold leaf on canvas, Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna)

Fauvism (1900-20)

Henri Matisse, The Dance, (1909 MOMA, New York, oil on canvas)

Expressionism (c.1890-1934)

Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera and pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo)

Cubism (1907-14)

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, (1907, oil on canvas, MOMA, New York)

American Modernism (early 1900s)

‘’purple petunia’ by Georgia O’Keeffe (1925)

Dada (1916- 1930)

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

Surrealism (Early 1920’s)

Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921), Tate, London

Deconstructivism (1980’s)

Deconstructivist Typography: Cornell Windlin Neville Brody

“Deconstruction within typography was used to confront and question the

prerequisite structure of what was considered to be good typographic design. This

began to take shape over 30 years ago and since then the way designers have

treated its application has drastically changed”.

http://salfordtypefoundry.co.uk/essay/is-deconstruction-within-typography-relevant-in-the-21st-century/

YBA’s (late 1980s and 90s)

‘Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995’ by Tracey Emin (1995)

‘minky manky’ exhibition in South London Gallery