Romanesque
(Inspired by Byzantine Iconography) |
1000-1150 |
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Gothic (Medieval art following Romanesque) |
1140-1600 |  |
Renaissance
(Painting becomes business including the first famous painters)
Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Jan van Eyck |
1400-1600 |  |
Mannerism
(Evolved from Renaissance where the human body becomes important)
El Greco, Raphael and Caravaggio |
1520-1600 |
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Baroque
(Evolved from Rennaisance with the use of dark and light)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals, Bernini |
1600-1725 |
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Rococo
(Rejecting the richness of Baroque and becoming more personal)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo |
1720-1760 |
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Neoclassicism
(Took elements from classical antiquity into art)
Jacques-Louis David, Antonia Canova, Antoine-Jean Gros, Juan Luna |
1770-1840 |
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Romanticism
(Romantic artists emphasized the individual and imagination)
Fransisco Goya, William Blake, Thomas Cole, J.M.W. Turner |
1800-1850 |
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Realism
(Tries to present truthful persentations in art.)
Gustav Courbet, Édouard Mone, Edward Hopper |
1840-1870 |
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Impressionism
(Visible brush strokes and use of dark/light)
Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse |
1870-1900 |
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Naturalism
(Focuses on representative image of nature)
John Constable, Theodore Rousseau |
1880-1900 |
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Post Impressionism
Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch |
1880-1920 |
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Symbolism
(revival inspired by romantic style)
Victor Vasnetsov, John William Waterhouse |
1880-1910 |
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Expressionism/Fauvism
(post impressionism with rich use of colours)
Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Kees van Dongen, André Derain |
1890-1939 |
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Art Noveau/Jugendstill
(Very decorative detailed)
Gustav Klimt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jan Toorop, Antoni Gaudi |
1895-1915 |
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Cubism/Futurism
(Cubistic shapes are transformed in visuals)
Pablo Picasso, Kazimir Malevich, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger |
1905-1939 |
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Dadaism
(Evolved later in surrealism and was political activism)
Marcel Duchamp, Hugo Ball |
1912-1923 |
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Art Deco
(Evolved from Art Nouveau)
Reginald Marsh, Rockwell Kent, Josep Maria Sert
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1920-1935 |
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Bauhaus
(art style based on design/architecture)
Walter Gropius, Oskar Schlemmer, Marcel Breuer |
1920-1925 |
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Surrealism
(art with unreal presentations)
Salvador Dali, Rene Margritte |
1924-1945 |
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Abstract Expressionism
(style with abstract forms and shapes)
Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Wasilly Kandinksy |
1945-1960 |
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Popart / Op Art
(based on industry and consumer market/optical illusion (Op Art))
Maurits Cornelius Escher (Op Art), Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein |
1956-1969 |
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Minimalism
(question the overly expressive works of Abstract Expressionist)
Tony Smith, Frank Stella |
1960-1976 |
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Photorealism
(Try to reproduce photo's in paintings)
John Baeder, Glennray Tutor, Charles Bell, Mark Bayne |
1968-now |
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Contemporary Art
(a very large range of styles)
Mark Bradford, Corneille Guillame Beverloo, Karel Appel |
1978-now |
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