| Ancient art
Mesopotamian art (3500-500 B.C.) with Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian art Egyptian art (4000-30 B.C.) with Dynastic, Kingdom, Amarna, Macedonian Dynasty, Ptolemaic Dynasty and under the Roman Emperors Art. 3300-1000 B.C. The Cycladic Islands and Cretan art Early (2800-2000), Middle (2000-1700) and Late Minoan Art (1550-1400) Mycenaean art (Greek)(1600-1100 B.C.) Phoenician Art (1500-500 B.C.) Nomadic Art (700-300 B.C.): Scythian Art Persian Empire Art (539-331 B.C.) Greek art Sub-Mycenaean and Geometric Art The archaic, classic and Hellenistic period Etruscan art Early Iron Age Art (9th century), Orientalizing Phase (ca. 675), Archaic Period (ca. 575), Classical Period (ca. 480) and Hellenistic Period Art (ca. 300- 50 B.C.) Roman art Republican Art (510-27 B.C.) Early Roman Empire Art (27 B.C.- 235 A.D.) Late Roman Empire/Late Antique Art (235-476) Celtic Art Parthian and Sasanian Art (238 B.C.-637 A.D.) Early Christian Art Period of persecution (200 A.D. - 325 A.D.) and period of recognition (325 A.D. - ...) Coptic Art (300-900) Byzantine art (400-1400) Early Byzantine Art (4th century-843) and Late Byzantine Art (843-1390) Islamic Art (622-1492) Early Medieval Art (Migration Period)(300-900) The Visigoths, The Picts, merovingian art (The Franks), Eastgothic art, Westgothic art, The Burgundians, The Ostrogoths, The Lombards and Anglo-Saxon art Middle age art (6th-15th century AD) Non-Migratory/Pre-Romanesque Art Hiberno-Saxon (Insular) Art (500-1000), Carolingian Art (750-900) and Ottonian art (900-1050) Romanesque or Romanian art (1000-1300) Gothic art (1150-16th century) Early Gothic (1140-1194), High Gothic (1194-1300), Rayonnant Gothic (13th-14th-centuries), Perpendicular style (1375 - middle 16th century), Flamboyant Gothic (14th-16th centuries) German Gothic (13th-14th centuries) and English Gothic (1179-16th century) International Gothic (1380-1430), Bohemian School (1350) Renaissance (1400-1600) Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Pieter Breughel de Oudere, Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Della Francesca, Andrea Mantegna, Masaccio, Verrocchio Italian Renaissance Proto-Renaissance (1200-1400), The Early Renaissance (1400-1490) and The High Renaissance (1490-1527) with Leonardo Da Vinci, Buonarroti Michelangelo and Raphael (Rafaello Sanzio) Venetian school (1450-1600) Antonello da Messina, Bellini, Vivarini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese Mannerism (Late Renaissance) (1520-1600) Benvenuto Cellini, Giambologna, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Correggio, Vasari, El Greco Northern European Renaissance (1325-1600) Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Albrecht Altdorfer Early Netherlandish art (1400-1525): Flemish primitives, Jan van Eyck, Gerard David Early French Renaissance art (1385-1520): School of Fontainebleau (1530-1610) Ghent-Bruges School (1475-1550), Antwerp Mannerism (1500-1530), Danube or Donau School (1500-1550), The Little Masters (1500-1550) | Non-Western Art
Chinese art Neolithic (6000-1600 B.C.) Shang Dynasty (1766-1045 B.C.) Zhou Dynasty (1045-256 B.C.) Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) Three Kingdoms Period (220-280) Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) Six Dynasties Period (222-589) Northern and Southern Dynasties (310-589) Sui Dynasty (581-618), T'ang Dynasty (618-907), Five Dynasties Period (907-960), Liao Dynasty (907-1125), Sung (Song) Dynasty (960-1279), Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) Southern School (late 16th-early 17th centuries) Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1662-1912) Japanese art Jomon (4500-200 B.C), Yayoi (200 B.C.-200 A.D.) and Kofun (200-500) Asuka (552-645), Hakuho or Early Nara (645-710), Nara (710-794), Heian (794-1185), Kamakura (1185-1333), Muromachi-Ashikaga (1392-1573) and Kose School (9th-15th-centuries) Muromachi-Ashikaga - 1392-1573 Momoyama Period - 1573-1603 Edo Period - 1603-1868 Grass and Earth Society (ca. 1915-1922): Ryusei Kishida Mono-Ha (1960s) Indian art Indus Valley (4000-1800 B.C.) Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilization (3000-1500 B.C.) Aryan India (1500-500 B.C.) The Mauryan Empire (321-233 B.C.) Gandhara and Kushan School (1st-3rd centuries A.D.) The Gupta Dynasty (320-510) Chalukyan Art in the Deccan (500-650), Rashtrakuta Dynasty (mid 8th-late 10th-century), Pallavas Cholas (897-mid 13th-century) and Hoysalas (12th-14th-centuries) Art under Muslim Rule - ca. 1000-1757 Mexican art Olmec Art (1200-350 B.C.) Zapotec Art (1400 B.C.-400 A.D.) Huastec Art (1000 B.C.-1521 A.D.) and Mayan Art (300 B.C.-800 A.D.) North American art Toltec Art (900 A.D.-1200) Mixtec Art (1200-1521) and Tarascan Art (1300-1521) Aztec Art (1400-1520) South American art Valdivian Art (4000-1500 B.C.) Chavin Art (2600-200 B.C.) San Agustin - (800 B.C.-1630 A.D.) Moche and Nasca Art (200 B.C.-600 A.D.) Huari-Tiahuanaco (600-1000) and Manteño Art (800-1500) Inca Art (1400-1534) Cuzco School (late 16th-century-early 1800s) African art Southern African Rock Art, Sahara - Bubalus Period (6000-3500 B.C.), Lower Nubia (3500-2000 B.C.), Kush (2000 B.C.-325 A.D.), Pre-dynastic Kemet (to 3050 B.C.), The Nok Culture (400 B.C.-200 A.D.) and Aksum (350 B.C.-1000 A.D.) |
| Barbizon school (1830–1870)
Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny Realism (1849-1875) Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Julien Dupré and Rosa Bonheur Etruscan School (1860s): Giovanni Costa The Hague School (1870-1900): George Hendrik Breitner, Isaac Israëls Newlyn School (1880s-1900) Tonalism (1880-1920): George Inness and James McNeill Whistler Impressionism (1874-1890) Edgar Degas, J.B. Jongkind, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Corinth, Liebermann, Maurice Utrillo, Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley, L. Corinth, Ric Wouters, Berthe Morrisot, Mary Cassatt, M. Rosso Australian Impressionism: The Heidelberg School (mid-1880s - mid-1890s) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848-1854) John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriël Rosetti Edward Burne-Jones |
| Les Nabis (1885-1900)
Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis La Bande Noire (or "the Nubians") (1890s): Charles Cottet Neo-impressionism (1886-1906): Pointillism and Divisionism Georges Seurat, Paul Signac Luminism: Emile Claus and Théo van Rysselberghe Pintura de la luz (1890s-early 20th Century) Postimpressionism (1885-1905) Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Cloisonnism and synthetism: Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin Naïve art Grandma Moses, Edward Hicks, Henri Rousseau Symbolism (1886-1910) Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Arnold Böcklin Latem School (1890-1914) Nagybánya Colony (1896-1930s): Károly Ferenczy | Gothic Revival architecture (1840s-)
Augustus Welby Pugin and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Arts and Crafts (1860s-1900) William Morris, C.R. Ashbee, Walter Crane, John Ruskin, Owen Jones Architects: Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Aesthetic Movement (1870s-1880s) Glasgow School (1870s-1910) The Four (Spook School), Glasgow Boys (1880s and 1890s) Art Nouveau (a.k.a. Jugendstil and Liberty-Style) (1880s-1914) Architects: Peter Behrens, Antonio Gaudi, Hector Guimard, Otto Wagner, Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde Art à la Rue - 1890s-early 1900s Designers: Louis Tiffany, Rene Lalique Painters: Aubrey Beardsley, Jan Toorop, Ferdinand Hodler, Franz von Stuck, Alphonse Mucha 1897 Viennese School (Sezession) Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele Hagenbund (1900-1930) |
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Chaïm Soutine
Fauvism (1898-1910) André Derain, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Kees van Dongen, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Ric Wouters |
Expressionism (1902-1925)
Oskar Kokoschka 1905-1913 Die Brucke Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and Otto Mueller 1911-1914 Der Blaue Reiter (or Blue Rider) Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky Käthe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck Formism (1917-1922): Henryk Gotlib and the Revolt Group (1918-1920), Scuola Romana (1927-1940) |
| dada (1916-1922)
Hans (=Jean) Arp, Man Ray (Emmanuel Rudnitsky), Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Tauber-Arp, Hausmann, Heartfield, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Paul Citroen, Max Ernst, George Grosz, Paul van Ostayen, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara e.a. Biomorphism (1915-1940s) 1920-1946 surrealism Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Bellmer, Brauner, Gorky, Matta, Nash, Tanguy, Jean Cocteau, J. Moesman, Man Ray, Joan Mirò, André Masson, Louis Bunuel Alberto Giacometti Devětsil (1920-1931), Veristic Surrealism (1920s-ca. 1930) | 1914-1940 Art-Deco
Les Automatistes (1940s) Modern architecture Functionalism: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright Expressionist architecture (1910 until ca. 1924.) Bruno Taut, Erich Mendelsohn, H.P. Berlage and Amsterdam School |
| De Stijl (1917-1931) | |
| Theo van Doesburg, Piet mondrian | J.J.P. Oud, Gerrit Thomas rietveld, Jan Wils |
| November Group (1918-1924) and Arbeitsrat für Kunst (1918-1921) César Klein | |
| New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)(1920s-1935) | |
| Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Christian Schad
Photography: Helmar Lerski, August Sander Magic Realism (1925): Balthus, Dick Ket, Pyke Koch, Carel Willink, Andrew Wyeth, Alberto Savinio, Alexander Kanoldt | New Building |
| Bauhaus (1919-1934) | |
| Johannes Itten, Otto Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers | Walther Gropius, Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer |
| International style (1920s-1940s)
Philip Johnson, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, Richard Neutra | |
| Hans Hofmann
1943-55 New York School, Action-painting, Dripping Gestural Painting Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov, Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes Color Field painting (1950s) Adolp Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, Theodorus Stamos Washington Color School (mid-1950s) Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Thomas "Tom" Downing, and Paul Reed. | 1943-1960 Art Informel (or Informalism, or Lyrical Abstraction), Tachism (late 1940s)
Alberto Burri, Emiel Cimiotti, Roberto Crippa, Peter Grippen, Etienne-Martin, Karl Otto Gotz, Otto Herbert Hajek, Hans Hartung, Erich Hauser, Ernst Hermanns, Zoltan Kemeny, Thomas Lenk, John Masen, Georges Mathieu, Henri Michaux, Jean Miotte, Gio Pomodoro, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Antonio Saura, Emil Schumacher, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Pierre Soulages, Francois Stahly, August Strindberg, Fred Thieler, Peter Voulkos, Wols Quadriga, Gruppe 53 and Zen-group (1950s) Peter Brüning, Gerhard Hoehme, Bernard Schultze, Willi Baumeister, Rolf Cavael, Gerhard Fietz, Rupprecht Geiger, Willy Hempel, Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff, Fritz Winter |
| Zero (1958-1966)
Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Hermann Goepfert Christian Megert, Hans Salentin Gruppo N and Gruppo T (1959): Anceschi Giovanni, Colombo Gianni 1960 Nul-groep: Armando, Henk peeters, Jan Schoonhoven | Op art (1955)
Bridget Louise Riley, Victor Vasarely, H.R. Giger, Philip Taaffe, Josef Albers, Jesús Rafael Soto, Zoltán Kemény, Gerard Caris Kinetic art Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, George Rickey, Takis GRAV (1958) François Morellet, Julio le Parc, Francisco Sobrino |
| Installation, Assemblage & Environmental sculpture (1960s)
Edward Kienholz, George Segal Ready made, Found art (or Junk Art) (1960s) Louise Nevelson, John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero Happening Allan Kaprow, Tadeusz Kantor, Jean-Jacques Lebel | Neo-Dada (1950s)
Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns Independent Group (1952) Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi Pop art (1956-1976) VS: Allan d'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman England: Mark Boyle, Peter Blake, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Joe Tilson, Patrick Caulfield, Ronald B. Kitaj, Colin Self Nouveau réalisme (1960s) Pierre Restany, Yves Klein, Arman, Jean Tinguely, César, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Jacques de la Villegle Mechanical Art or Mec'art (1962-65): Alain Jacquet |
| Piero Manzoni
Arte Povera (1965) Alighiero E. Boetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Gilberto Zorio, Michelangelo Pistoletto |
Earth art or Land art (1960s)
Walter de Maria, Richard long, Dennis Oppenheim, James Turrell Environmental artists: Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer |