timeline

• Traces of art history correlates on the entire history of humankind, from prehistoric to the twenty-first century
• Human history and the history of art began about 10,000 B.C.
• Visual representation was essential to people of the prehistoric era
• The earliest evidence of tool making was two million years ago and improved during the Palaeolithic period (40,000 to 8,000 B.C.)
• Stone Age cave dwellers

  • They were artists who represents animals with which they came into daily contact in their cave paintings
  • In the prehistoric period, ways of life and the quality of life was greatly influenced by art
  • The arts help explain meaning, truth, spirit, social values, religion, and other foundations of human culture
• In early history, the arts were not viewed as separate disciplines, such as dance, painting, and music, but rather as integrated with each other and with life
• The arts were objects and performance combined with rituals and customs that identified the beliefs and values of a society's culture
• Art from all historical periods reveals insights about man's thoughts, his imagination, and his perceptions of the world
• Much of the artwork produced in the early years of the Middle Ages reflects darkness, characterized by grotesque imagery and brutal scenery
• Realist artists often employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world
• Michelangelo


  Artist from the Baroque period, famous for La Pieta
• Classical period art


  • High regard for classical antiquity, typically seeks to be formal and restrained
• Romantic works


  • Yearned for the past, featured natural disasters
• Impressionism can be considered the last distinctly modern movement in painting, its originators were artists who rejected the official and were consequently, shunned by powerful academic art institutions
• Fauvism started in the outcome of Pablo Picasso's shocking, exhibited forms in an illusionistic space, portraits
• Impressionism is studio painting in itself was unnatural to them when the real world was "out there", started in the period of 1848-1900
• Dada was the main ancestor to the Conceptual Art movement, the emphasis of the artists was not on making appealingly attractive objects
• One of the famous artists of Surrealism is Vincent van Gogh, one of his works is entitled Starry Night