Western Art HistoryTime Line

Prehistoric ArtVisual Arts Movements30,000 – 3000 B.C.

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art - 30,000-10,000 B.C.Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art - 10,000-8000 B.C.Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art - 8000-3000 B.C.

Ancient ArtVisual Arts Movements5500 B.C. - 476 A.D.

Bronze Age Art - 2500-800 B.C.Iron Age Art - 750-50 B.C.

Ancient Civilizations:Ancient Egypt 5500 – 332 B.C.Greek and Roman Egypt - 332 BC-395 ADAncient Greece ca 1200 – 27 B.C.Classical Art – 480 - 323 B.C.Hellenistic Art - 323-50 B.C.Roman Empire Art - 27 B.C. – 476 A.D.Celtic Art

Early Christian toMedieval ArtVisual Arts Movements400 - 1450

Early Christian 476 -ca. 800Byzantine ArtNorman/ Viking InfluencesThe Anglo-Saxons – 500 -1066

Medieval Art:Romanesque Art - ca. 1000 –ca. 1150Gothic Art – 1140 -1450Flamboyant Gothic – 1400 -1600

Renaissance to Early Modern ArtVisual Arts Movements1400 - 1880

The Renaissance – 1450 -1600Baroque Art – 1600 -1750Rococo – 1700 -1750

Neo-Classicism – 1750 -1880Romanticism – 1800 -1880Realism – 1830 -1870Impressionism – 1863 -1885

Modern Art(The Industrial Revolution)Visual Arts Movements1880 - 1970

1880 Neo-Impressionism – 1886 -1906Post-Impressionism – 1886 -1905Symbolism – 1880 -early 1900s

1890 Expressionism – 1890 -19391900 Art Nouveau – 1905 -1939

Cubism – 1907 -PresentFuturism – 1909 -1939

1910 Bauhaus – 1919 -1933Constructivism (Russian influences)-1914 -early 1930sDada - Dadaism – 1916 -1923Purism – 1918 -1926

1914 WWI 1914 -19181920 Art Deco – 1920 -1930

Constructivism – 1920 -PresentNéo-Réalism- 1920 -1930Surrealism – 1922 -1939

1930 Abstraction – 1931 -1936Concrete Art – 1930 -ca. 1960Neo-Romanticism – 1930 -1950sSocialist Realism - ca. 1930 -1950

1939 WWII 1939 -19451945 - Post-War

Abstract Expressionism 1945 -PresentArt brut – 1945 -Present

1950 Action Painting - 1950sColor Field Painting – 1950 -PresentHard-Edge Painting - late 1950s- PresentNeo-Dada - 1950Pop Art - 1955 –Present

1960 Conceptual Art – 1960 –PresentMinimalism – 1960 –PresentOp Art – 1964 -PresentPsychedelic Art - early 1960s- early 1970s

Contemporary ArtVisual Art Movements 1970 - Present

1970 Post-Modernism - 1970s-mid 1980sUgly Realism - 1970sFeminist Art - 1970s-PresentNeo-Conceptualism - late 1970s-PresentNeo-Expressionism - late 1970s-1980sTrans- Avantgarde – 1979

1980 Free Figuration - early 1980sMulticulturalism - 1980sGraffiti Movement - 1980sBrit Art /Young British Artists("yBa")Neo-Pop - late 1980s

1990 Net Art - early 19902000 Thinkism - September 12, 2001

Funism - ca. 2002