Lehmann, Sophie-Ann - Esner, Rachel - Kisters, Sandra - Hiding Making - Showing Creation - The Studio From Turner To Tacita Dean-Amsterdam University Press (2013)
ART EXAMPLES INTERPRETATION In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
Ancient Egyptian art refers to art
produced in ancient Egypt between the 31st century BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from the Early Dynastic Period until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media.
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan
civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period).
The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its
Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass are sometimes considered to be minor forms of Roman art, although they were not considered as such at the time. Sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by Romans The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists' crafts, and the artists themselves.
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD) is the painting,
sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology.
The Baroque is a style of architecture, music,
dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century.
Romanticism began in Europe at the end of
the 18th century, amidst the Age of Enlightenment. A focus on science and rationality drove the Age of Enlightenment. For the first time, philosophers and thinkers were pulling back the curtain of common standard practices to reevaluate the progressing world. The individual and self- discovery were beginning to take center stage against an age of societal control. Through this discovery, Romanticism was born, creating new paths for the world of art, literature, and music. The 20th century was a time of rapid artistic change and development where preconceived, traditional concepts were challenged. The role of the artist, the relationship between representation and significance, and the growing relevance of mass-produced visual images were considered and redefined.
The history of art since 1945 is typically
understood in terms of the ascendance, crisis, and transformation of modernism. In this account, a select group of 19th and early 20th-century European avant-gardes established the models by which subsequent advanced art would be produced and judged.
Lehmann, Sophie-Ann - Esner, Rachel - Kisters, Sandra - Hiding Making - Showing Creation - The Studio From Turner To Tacita Dean-Amsterdam University Press (2013)