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Arts 3
Arts 3
Arts 3
Module 3
Skill-Building Activity
Art Period/ Movement - Characteristics - Chief Artist and Major Work
1. Prehistoric Art (~40,000–4,000 B.C.) - rock carvings, engravings, pictorial imagery, sculptures,
and stone arrangements - Paleolithic cave paintings
2. Ancient Art (4,000 B.C.–A.D. 400) - to tell stories, decorate utilitarian objects like bowls and
weapons, display religious and symbolic imagery, and demonstrate social status - Code of
Hammurabi
3. Medieval Art (500–1400) - the illuminated manuscript and Gothic architecture style - Hagia
Sophia in Istanbul, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Notre Dame
4. Renaissance Art (1400–1600) - arts and humanism - da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael
5. Mannerism (1527–1580) - figures had graceful, elongated limbs, small heads, stylized
features and exaggerated details - Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Salviati, Domenico Beccafumi, and
Bronzino
6. Baroque (1600–1750) - drama - Caravaggio and Rembrandt
7. Rococo (1699–1780) - decorative art, painting, architecture, and sculpture - Antoine
Watteau and Francois Boucher
8. Neoclassicism (1750–1850) - elements from classical antiquity - Antonio Canova
9. Romanticism (1780–1850) - painting to music to literature - plein air painting
10. Realism (1848–1900) - the anti-Romantic movement in Germany, the rise of journalism, and
the advent of photography - Gustave Courbet
11. Art Nouveau (1890–1910) - heavily influenced applied arts, graphics, and illustration
architecture, graphic and interior design, jewelry-making, and painting - Alphonse Mucha/
theatrical posters of French actress, Antoni Gaudi Basilica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ko
12. Impressionism (1865–1885) - short, quick brushstrokes and an unfinished, sketch-like feel -
Claude Monet
13. Post-Impressionism (1885–1910) - visions and symbolic, pointillism- Vincent van Gogh
14. Fauvism (1900–1935) - expressive use of intense color, line, and brushwork, a bold sense of
surface design, and flat composition - Vincent van Gogh and George Seurat
15. Expressionism (1905–1920) - distortion of form and strong colors to display anxieties and
raw emotions - Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor
16. Cubism (1907–1914) - fragmented objects through abstraction - Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque
17. Surrealism (1916–1950) - works of art that defied reason - Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud,
Salvador Dalí
18. Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) - action painting - include Jackson Pollock, and Mark
Rothko
19. Op Art (1950s–1960s) - optical effects and illusions - Le Mouvement
20. Pop Art (1950s–1960s) - imagery was a shift from the direction of modernism - Andy Warhol
and Roy Lichtenstein
21. Arte Povera (1960s) - soil, rocks, paper, rope, and other earthen elements - Giovanni
Anselmo and Alighiero Boetti
22. Minimalism (1960s–1970s) - focused on anonymity, calling attention to the materiality of
works - Frank Stella
23. Conceptual Art (1960s–1970s) - performances, ephemera, and other forms - Ewa Partum’s
Active Poetry, One and Three Chairs
24. Contemporary Art (1970–present) -various schools and smaller movements that emerged -
Postmodernism, Feminist art, Neo Expressionism, Street art, The Pictures Generation,
Appropriation art, Young British Artists (YBA), Digital art