Art Throughout HistoryCollege Board Exam Review

Italian Renaissance Art

Key Artists Michelangelo da Vinci Raphael Donatello Ghiberti Brunelleschi

Art characteristics Religious in nature Proportionate Faces filled with

emotion Individuality in style Adapted Greco-Roman

symmetry, classical columns, statues, arches, domes

Free standing statues Frescos

Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Key Artists Durer Van Eyck Peter Bruegel

Characteristics Real-life Practical Science-based

Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Baroque

Key Artists Peter Paul Ruebens Rembrandt Poussin Vermeer Caravaggio

Characteristics communicate

religious themes in direct and emotional involvement

means of impressing and expressing triumphant power

Baroque

Baroque

Neoclassicism

Key Artists Jacques Louis David

Characteristics draw upon Western

classical art and culture

order and simplicity political themes

including bravery and war

Neoclassicism

Romanticism

Key Artists Delacroix Joseph Mallard

William Turner Goya

Characteristics reaction against the

scientific rationalization of nature

emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe

Romanticism

Romanticism

Realism

Key Artists Courbet Goya

Characteristics depiction of

subjects as they appear in everyday life

Reaction against romantics

Realism

Impressionism

Monet Renoir Manet

Characteristics small, thin, yet

visible brush strokes emphasis on the

accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities

unusual visual angles.

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Key Artists Cezanne Van Gogh

Characteristics extended

Impressionism while rejecting its limitations

Vivid colors Thick brush strokes more inclined to

emphasize geometric forms

distort form for expressive effect

to use unnatural or arbitrary color

Post-Impressionism

Cubism

Key Artists Picasso

Characteristics objects are broken

up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form

the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context

Cubism

Surrealism

Key Artists Dali

Characteristics element of surprise unexpected

juxtapositions expression of the

philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact

Surrealism