Norma Jones - Watercolor Artist

• Paleolithic Art -The earliest known art, produced roughly between 40,000 and 10,000 BC, during the most recent ice age or the Old Stone Age.
• Egyptian beginnings
• Stone age of Italy and Sicily
• Mesolithic Art - Middle Stone Age about 10,000 years ago
• Neolithic Art - The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age began in Asia around 7000 B.C
• Yang-Shao Culture, Neolithic culture that flourished in China about 3950-1700 BC.
• Irish Art, 2500 BC
• Japanese Art. 3000 BC
• The Bronze Age - between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, when most tools and weapons were made of bronze.

Related site: The cave of Lascaux

• Cycladic Culture, unique and distinctive Greek civilization that flourished from about 3200 to 2000 BC
• Indian Art - the art produced on the Indian subcontinent from about the 3rd millennium BC
• Indus Valley Civilization, 2500-1700 BC, earliest known civilization of South Asia
• Pre-Columbian Art - Art of the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Andes and neighboring cultures before the 16th century AD.
• Etruscan Art, early Italian Art to 1st cent. B.C.
• Greek Art about 1100 BC to the 1st century BC.
• Roman art - 500 BC.
• African Art -500 - 200 B.C.
• Eskimo Art - The art of the Eskimo peoples emerged about 2,000 years ago in the Bering Sea area and in Canada.
• Coptic Art, artwork of the Copts, or Egyptian Christians, from the 3rd to the 12th century
• Native American Art, the diverse traditional arts of the indigenous peoples of North America.
• Oceanic art, works produced by the island peoples of the S and NW Pacific
• Islamic Art, beginning in the 7th century AD
• Anglo-Saxon Art, art produced in England by invading Germanic peoples from the 7th century to the Norman conquest in 1066.
• American Art- beginning in the 17th Century
• Canadian Art - beginning in the 17th Century

• Early Christian Art - Biblical figures on catacomb walls in Rome from the early 3rd century
• Medieval Art (or Art of the Middle Ages)
• The Middle Ages spans the time from the 5th century A.D to the 15th century
• Romanesque period - 11th and 12th centuries
• Gothic style - 12th to 16th centuries (The International Gothic style emerged by the end of the 14th century)
• The Italian Renaissance - In Italy the Renaissance emerged in the 14th century and reached its height in the 15th and 16th century. elsewhere in Europe it dated from the 15th to the mid-17th century
• The Early Italian Renaissance
• The High Renaissance
• Mannerism ( Late Renaissance)
• Northern European Renaissance Painting - the northern countries, such as Germany, the Lowlands (Flanders and the Netherlands), England, France, and Spain
• Baroque
• Early Baroque (c.1590-c.1625)
• High Baroque (c.1625-c.1660)
• Late Baroque (c.1660-c.1725)
• Rococo Style -18th-century
• Romanticism - late 18th and 19th century
• England, France, Germany, United States
• Barbizon School - group of French painters, from about 1830 to 1870
• Neoclassical Art - art produced in Europe and North America from about 1750 through the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman forms.
• Nazarenes - young German artists who formed a brotherhood in Rome in 1810 to restore Christian art to its medieval purity.
• Pre-Raphaelites - English brotherhood formed in 1848 to protest the formula-driven art of the Royal Academy
• Realism - began in the mid-19th century
• Impressionism - 1874 - 1886
• Symbolist Movement - late 19th century.
• Neoimpressionism or Pointillism - late 19th century
• Post-Impressionism - 1886 - 1910

Related sites: World Art Treasures, Carol Gerten's Fine Art

• Modern Art - terms roughly designating 20th-century art, comprising many movements, styles, and schools.
• Fauvism - 1905-1909
• Expressionism - 1906-1919
• Cubism - 1909-1926
• Futurism - 1909-1918
• Suprematism - about 1913
• Dadaism - 1916-1922
• Surrealism - 1924-1938
• De Stijl - 1916-1931
• Constructivism - 1917-1924
• Abstract Expressionism - 1940's
• Pop Art - 1961-1968
• Kinetic Art - 1950's-1960's
• Op Art - 1964-1967
• Minimalism - 1966-1970
• Conceptual Art - 1960's and 70's