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- After the arrival of Europeans, artists looked to European tendencies in portraiture and landscape painting to craft representations of the new land, but it was not until the middle of the 19 th century with the Hudson River School that American artists were considered to have launched a cohesive movement.
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The first Native American art movement included over 25 Iroquois artists, who employed drawing, painting, and printmaking to realistically depict their tribe's beliefs, history, fashion, and lifestyle.
- Prehistoric Art (~40,000–4,000 B.C.) The origins of art history can be traced back to the Prehistoric era, before written records were kept. The earliest artifacts come from the Paleolithic era, or the Old Stone Age, in the form of rock carvings, engravings, pictorial imagery, sculptures, and stone arrangements.
- Ancient Art (4,000 B.C.– A.D. 400) Ancient art was produced by advanced civilizations, which in this case refers to those with an established written language.
- Medieval Art (500–1400) The Middle Ages, often referred to as the “Dark Ages,” marked a period of economic and cultural deterioration following the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D.
- Renaissance Art (1400–1600) This style of painting, sculpture, and decorative art was characterized by a focus on nature and individualism, the thought of man as independent and self-reliant.
This chapter covers about 250 years (c. 1700–1865) of art made during a period of dramatic shifts and changes that reflect the cultural fluidity in the American colonies (and later, the United States).
These are the important American movements, styles, tendencies, groups, and schools that we currently cover. More are on the way! American: 94 of 169 Total Movements. Select Another Criteria.
Modern Art Movements: 1400s to 1980s. This timeline displays the major trends and movements in modern art, approximately dated to when they began, or when they gained prominence. Click on any movement for a quick overview and further information.
June 2008. The Arts and Crafts movement emerged during the late Victorian period in England, the most industrialized country in the world at that time. Anxieties about industrial life fueled a positive revaluation of handcraftsmanship and precapitalist forms of culture and society.
Rejected by the jury for the Salon des Independants of 1912 in Paris, the painting created a sensation in America when it was exhibited in New York City at the 1913 Armory Show (the country’s ...
