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CUMBERLAND COUNTY COLLEGE: ART APPRECIATION

Art Historical Timeline

WESTERN TIMELINE

• Neolithic Period: c. 5000 B.C.-c. 500 B.C.
  • Irish Passage Graves: c. 3500-c. 2500 B.C. 
• Stonehenge: c. 3100 B.C.-c. 2500 B.C. 
• Egyptian Empire Art: c. 3000 B.C.-c. 500 B.C.
• Pyramid Building: c. 2600 B.C.-c. 2500 B.C. 
• Amarna Period: 1352 B.C.-1336 B.C.
• Greek Art: c. 760 B.C.-31 B.C.
• Roman Art: 509 B.C. - 476 A.D. 
• Early Christian Art: c. 200 A.D.-c. 500 A.D.
• Medieval: c. 500 A.D.-c. 1500
  • Byzantine Period: c. 500 A.D.-c. 1450
  • Carolingian Period: c. 800 A.D.-c. 900 A.D.
  • Ottonian Period: c. 900 A.D.-c. 1025
  • Romanesque: c. 1050-c. 1200
  • Gothic: c. 1150-c. 1600
• Renaissance: c. 1440-c. 1800 
  • Coloristic Chiaroscuro: c. 1300 
  • Oil Paints: c. 1400
  • Linear Perspective: 1413
  • Mannerism: c. 1520-c. 1600
  • Baroque Period: c. 1600-c. 1800
  • Rococo Period: c. 1700-c. 1750
• Neoclassicism: c. 1750-1880
• Romanticism: c. 1800-1880
  • Daguerreotype/Photography invented: 1837
• Realism: c. 1840s-c. 1900
• Impressionism: c. 1870 - c. 1890
• Post-Impressionism: c. 1880 - c. 1900
  • Kodak camera: 1888
  • First motion picture: 1894
• Modernism: c. 1900 - 1945
  • Fauvism: c. 1900 - c. 1920
  • Cubism: 1907- 1914
  • Futurism: 1909-1944
  • Dada: 1916 - 1922
  • Constructivism (Bauhaus): c. 1920 - c. 1945
  • Harlem Renaissance: c. 1920 - c. 1945
  • Surrealism: c. 1920 - c. 1945
  • International Style: c. 1920 - c. 1945
• Abstract Expressionism: 1945 - c. 1960 
• Post-Modernism: c. 1960 - Present
  • Pop Art: c. 1955 - c. 1965
  • Op Art: c. 1960 - c. 1970
  • Feminist Art: c. 1960 - c. 1970
  • Gay & Lesbian Art: c. 1960 - c. 1970
  • African American Art: c. 1960 - c. 1970
  • Minimalism: c. 1960 - c. 1970
  • New Realism: c. 1970 - c. 1980
  • Conceptual Art: c. 1970 - c. 1980
  • Performance Art: c. 1970 - c. 1980
  • Neo-Epressionism: c. 1980 - c. 1990
  • Computer Art: c. 1980 - c. 1990
  • Post-Modern Classicism: c. 1980 - c. 1990
  • Victorian Revival: c. 1980 - c. 1990

EASTERN TIMELINE

• Chinese Art
  • Shang Dynasty: c. 1500 B.C.-c. 1050 B.C.
  • Zhou Dynasty: c. 1050 B.C.-221 B.C.
  • Qin Dynasty: 221 B.C.-206 B.C.
  • Han Dynasty: 206 B.C.-220 A.D.
  • Six Dynasties: 220 A.D.-581 A.D.
  • Sui Dynasty: 581 A.D.-618 A.D.
  • Tang Dynasty: 618 A.D.-906 A.D.
  • Song Dynasty: 960 A.D.-1279
  • Yuan Dynasty: 1279-1368
  • Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644 
  • Qing Dynasty: 1644-1911

• Japanese Art
• Asuka Period: 552-646 A.D.
• Heian Period: 794 A.D.-1185
• Kamakura Period: 1185-1392
• Muromachi Period: 1392-1568
• Momoyama Period: 1568-1603
• Edo Period: 1603-1868

• Indian Art
  • Indus Valley/Akkadian Cultures: c. 2600 B.C.-c. 325 B.C.
  • Life of Buddha: 563 B.C.-483 B.C.
  • Maura-Shunga Period: c. 325 B.C.-c. 75 B.C.
  • Andhra-Kushan Period, Buddhist Art: c. 75 B.C.-320 A.D.
  • Gupta Period, Buddhist Art: 320 A.D.-647 A.D.
  • Medieval Period, Hindu Art: 647 A.D.-1750

AFRICAN TIMELINE

• Kush Kingdom of Nubia: c. 900 B.C.-c. 500 A.D.
• Nok Culture of Nigeria: c. 500 B.C.-c. 200 A.D.
• Islamic Art: c. 650 A.D.-1650
• Life of Muhammad: 570 A.D.-632 A.D.
• Benin Kingdom of Nigeria: c. 1440-1897

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