Art History

The tympanum found on churches and castles were a trademark of this time period.

Ceremonial masks, wooden figures, and bronze sculptures were art that were part of daily life.

Art was used for funerary purposes and the afterlife, and were limited to 6 colors.

This culture had religious stone temples decorated with symbols of their sun god. 

Artists were known for their painted scrolls, lacquered wood carvings, and painted screens.

This Post-Renaissance movement's use of light and multi-curved forms to create the composition.

Characterizedby multicolored paint and expressiveabstract forms done quickly and spontaneously.

This Post-Renaissance movement paintings depicted everyday life of workers and peasants.

The pre-historic Australian art made 32,000 years ago, and describes a creation story. 

An art movement in which the abstracted image is represented by fragmented, geometric shapes.

This art movement draw ideas from psychology and the supernatural, to create dreamlike images.

Digital art created from the computer beginning from the mid-1950s to the present.

A French method of painting where small dots of complementary colors were applied side by side.

Arabesques and geometric designs are found in the architecture and rugs of this culture.

This Post-Renaissance movement paintings had dramatic action, energy and movement.

The concept or idea behind an artwork is the real art, and the process is documented by photos.

Sculptures, carvings, and temples reflect Buddhist beliefs of rebirth for this ancient culture.

Fresco mural paintings, public statues, and architecture were the art forms of this culture.

This culture's pottery vessels were used and depicted scenes from their daily life.

This art movement tried tohave paintings suggest multiple senses, such as showing motion.

When an artwork has no recognizable object or subject, and no reference to the natural world.

This movement emphasized portraying what the artists felt, rather than what they viewed.

This post WWII art movement was concerned with optical illusions achieved by patterned shapes.

This art movement describes nonrepresentational or non-naturalistic forms of expression.

The flying buttresses and gargoyles on the Notre Dame Cathedral is an example of this art.

Found in France in 1940, contains 600+ animal paintings, and relates to hunting-magic ritual.

Paintings in this movement resembled impressionists in the use of bright colors plus feelings. 

Monasteries during this time period were art centers since they copied the Bible by hand.

This Post-Renaissance movement was decorative, ornamental, and rich in composition.

The purpose of this movement was to paint light off of surfaces by using short brush strokes.

This Native American culture was known for their wooden totem poles and canoes.

In the early 1900s this movement painted city street life (saloons, alleys, fights, and slums).

This Post-Renaissance movement paintings were based on classical themes and heroic ideals. 

Purpose of "new art" was to modernize design, inspired by both organic and geometric forms.

This pre-abstract art movement uses intense color to describe light, space, and the mood.

Bronze sculptures, gardens, calligraphy, and ceramic porcelains are art known of this culture.

A comment on the contemporary, natural environment and on commercialaspects of our pop culture.

Describing a shift in the 1950s, where the simple artwork is left with the elements of art.

The ___, or “rebirth”, in Italy marked achievements in art such as Perspective and Chiaroscuro.

Artists from this movement painted everyday life during the Depression in the Midwest.