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Timeline	Movement	Main Artists	Artist pdf	Movement pdf
Pre Renaissance
5th-16th Century AD	Gothic Art

5th Century AD to 1453	Byzantine Art

The Renaissance
Italy 15th C	Early Renaissance	Boticelli
		Ucello

Italy Early 16th C	High Renaissance	Michelangelo
		Leanardo da Vinci
1395-1444 AD	Northern Renaissance Centered in Germany and the Netherlands, Northern European tradition of Gothic Art was greatly affected by the technical & philosophical advancements of the Renaissance in Italy. Northern artists were masters of technique, and their works are marvels of exquisite detail.	Jan van Eyck Roger van der Weyden

Europe mid to late 16th C	Mannerism Mannerism, the artistic style which is considered to be a period of technical accomplishment but also of formulaic, theatrical and overly stylized work. Mannerist Art is characterized by a complex composition, with muscular and elongated figures in complex poses.	Raphael Michelangelo Pargarmiano

Europe 17th - 18th C	Baroque Art Baroque art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerist art. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church, seen as a return to tradition and spirituality	Caravaggio Bernini Reubens Rembrandt Vermeer Velasquez

1715-1770	Rococo Rococo Art succeeded Baroque Art in Europe. It was most popular in France, and is generally associated with the reign of King Louis XV (1715-1774). It is a light, elaborate and decorative style of art.	Fragonard Boucher Tiepolo

Mid 18th - mid 19th Century	Neoclassicism Neoclassical Art is a severe and unemotional form of art returning to the art style of ancient Greece and Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the overbred Rococo style and the emotional charged Baroque style. The rise of Neoclassical Art was part of a general revival of interest in classical thought, which was of some importance in the American and French revolutions.	Robert Adams Canova Jacques Louis David

1600's - 1825	Japanese Ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e was a popular form of printed art in Japan, inexpensive and usually depicting scenes from everyday life in Japan's urban centers - fashions, entertainment, and the pleasures of the flesh. Ukiyo-e is especially known for its exceptional woodblock prints.	Hiroshige
		Hokusai
Late 18th - mid 19th C	Romanticism Romanticism was seen as a reaction against Neoclassicism. It is a deeply-felt style which is individualistic, exotic, beautiful and emotionally wrought. Artists might work in both styles; even combine elements, creating an intellectually Romantic work using a Neoclassical visual style.	Casper David Friedrich John Constable JMW Turner William Blake

Britain 1845 to late 19th C	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood The seven artists developed a naturalistic style of art. Students were encouraged to draw from Raphael’s examples rather than from nature itself; thus they became the "Pre-Raphaelites". They popularized a theatrically romantic style, marked by great beauty, an intricate realism, and a fondness for Arthurian and Greek legend.	Rossetti Millais Holman Hunt

Britain Mid to late 19th C	Victorian Classicism Victorian Classicism was a British form of historical painting inspired by the art and architecture of Classical Greece and Rome. Interest in lost civilizations and exotic cultures, fuelled the rise of Classicism in Britain. Classicists epitomized the rigid academic standards of painting.	Frederick Leighton Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Britain Late 19th C	Arts & Crafts Movement The Arts and Crafts Movement was a celebration of individual design and craftsmanship, developing as a reaction against transformation of Britain due to the industrial revolution. William Morris, who spearheaded the movement, is particularly remembered as a book designer. He also produced stained glass, textiles and wallpaper, in addition to being a painter and writer.	William Morris Edward Burne-Jones Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Late 19th C	Symbolism Symbolism art became infused with exaggerated sensitivity and a spooky mysticism. It was a continuation of the Romantic and used mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul.	Gustave Moreau Odilon Redon

Mid 19th C	Realism Realism is an approach to art in which subjects are depicted in as straightforward a manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following rules of formal artistic theory.	Thomas Eakins Camille Corot

France 1860 - 1926	Impressionism Impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the restrictions and conventions of the dominant Academic art. Its naturalistic and down-to-earth treatment of its subject matter, most commonly landscapes. The hallmark of the style is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of light in a scene.	Claude Monet Alfred Sisley Pierre Auguste Renoir Pissaro Degas Manet Mary Cassatt

America 1880 - 1916	Tonalism Tonalism is a style of painting in which landscapes are depicted in soft light and shadows, often as if through a colored or misty veil. It was imported to the U.S. by American painters inspired by Barbizon School landscapes.	James Whistler
France 1880's - 1901	Post Impressionism Post-Impressionism covers a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but developed their art in other directions. It is less idyllic and more emotionally charged than Impressionist work.	Paul Gaugin Paul Cezanne Vincent van Gogh Henri Rousseau Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

France 1880's - 1929	Pointillism Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors. It developed from the style used in Post-Impressionism.	Georges Seurat Paul Signac

France 1898-1954	Fauvism Fauvism grew out of Pointillism and Post-Impressionism, but is characterized by a more primitive and less naturalistic form of expression. Paul Gauguin's style and his use of color were especially strong influences.	Andre Derain Henri Matisse

Late 19th C to Early 20th C	Art Nouveau Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricate patterns of curving lines. Its origins somewhat rooted in the British Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris,	Alphonse Mucha Aubrey Beardsley Gustav Klimt Arthur Rackham

1920's and 30's	Art Deco Art Deco is an elegant style of decorative art, design and architecture which began as a Modernist reaction against the Art Nouveau style. It is characterized by the use of angular, symmetrical geometric forms. One of the classic Art Deco themes is that of 1930s-era skyscrapers such as New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building.	Tamara de Lempicka William van Alen


1920's and 30's	Surrealism	Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Georgia O'Keefe Marcelle Duchamp

1907 - 14	Cubism	Pablo Picasso Georges Braque Juan Gris Ferdinand Leger



1910 -30	Futurism	Umberto Boccioni Balla

London 1911-14	Camden Group The Camden Town Group was a group of artists inspired by the dark and impressionistic paintings and engravings of Walter Sickert's, who worked in this working-class section of London.	Walter Sickert

1916 - 30	Dada	Arp Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst

1919 -1933	Bauhaus	Walter Gropius
		Paul Klee
Mid 1950's	Pop Art	Lichtenstein David Hockney Andy Warhol

1940's - 1960's	Abstract Expressionism	Jackson Pollock
		Rothko
		De Kooning
Now	Contemporary Art