Eastern Art
Western Art Movements and Periods
Cave Painting
40,000 - 20,000 BCE
Ancient Egyptian Art
3000 BCE - 30 BCE
Ancient Greek Art
1000 BCE - 146 BCE
Ancient Roman Art
146 BC - 313 AD
Laocoön and His Sons, Marble
Byzantine
330 - 1450 AD
Renaissance
1300 - 1700
The School of Athens by Raphael. This Renaissance painting shows an imaginary scene from Ancient Greece, with many famous Greek philosophers, writers, artists and mathematicians.
Baroque
1600 - 1700
Peter Paul Reuben, Daniel in the Lions Den, 1615
Neo Classicism
1750 - 1830
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen, Oil on canvas, 1773, 290 x 338cm
Romanticism
1800-1880
Liberty Leading the People- 1830
Realism
1850 - 1970
Barge-Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin
Modern Art
Impressionism
1867-1886
Post Impressionism
1880-1920
Vincent Van Gogh, The Red Vineyard of Arles, Oil on canvas, 1888
Expressionism
1905-1925
Edvard Munch, The Scream, oil on canvas, 1893
The Fauves
1905-1908
Henri Matisse, Woman with the Hat, Paris, 1904-5
Cubism
1908-1914
Georges Braque, 1910, Violin and Candlestick, oil on canvas, 60.96 x 50.17 cm
World War 1 1914 - 1918
Surrealism
1920-1930
Salvador Dali, Swans Reflecting Elephants, oil paint on canvas, 1937
World War 2 1939 - 1945
Abstract Expressionism
1940-1960
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Enamel on canvas, 1950, 266.7 x 525.8 cm
Pop Art
1950-1960
Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Hair Ribbon, screen print, c.1965
Op Art
Bridget Riley, Blaze 1, Emulsion on Hardboard, 1962, 109x109cm