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Art movements, relative time periods, and descriptions

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Movement
Approximate Time Period
Description
Byzantine   show Centered around Constantinople and Ravenna, Italy, and characterized by the use of the icon, a religious image.  
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Romanesque   show Widespread, mainly architecrural style developed from a mix of Roman Christian art adn the Barbarian cultures of Northern Europe. Characterized by frescoes (paintings on wet plaster) and its use of rounded arches.  
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Gothic   1200-1500   show
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Renaissance   1300-1550   show
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show 1520-1650   Mainly an Italian style deriving from the pervasive influence of Raphael and Michelangelo. It was characterized by spatial imbalance and elongated figures and objects. Tintoretto was a Mannerist.  
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Baroque   show This style drew off the exuberance of mannerism and was characterized by bold ornamentation and wild colors. Artists of this period include Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Velasquez, Hals, and Van Dyck.  
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show 1735-1765   An outgrowth of Baroque characterized as very delicate and exquisitely refined with elaborate and superficial decoration. Watteau was the major artist.  
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show 1750-1830   Developed in Revolutionary France, this was characterized by a revival of the Renaissance style in which Greco-Roman art was emulated. Classical subjects were used as an allegory to the political situation of the time. Artists included David and Ingres.  
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Romanticism   1820-1850   show
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Realism   1840-1870   show
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Impressionism   show Artists tried to capture reality exactly as it appeared to the artist at one moment. It is concernd with light and its effects and the use of  
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show 1905-1910   A short-lived but influential movement characterized by distorted forms and bold, brilliant, exuberant colors. Matisse was the main exponent of this movement.  
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Expressionism   1905-1930   show
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Cubism   show New forms were created by dismantling objects or images and placing views from different angles in two dimensions. The style was developed by Picasso and Braque influenced by Cezanne's later works and also African tribal art. Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avi  
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show 1920-1940   Artists of this French avant-garde movement attempted to express imaginative dreams, because they were freed from the constraints of conscious controls. They drew off the Dadaist principles and the theories of Freud. Leading artists were Dali and Magrit  
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