Choosing an art period should be done with careful consideration.
You may not know all the choices there are in the art world. Here are some suggested web-sites that will allow you to make an informed choice about what art period to choose.
Remember, choosing an interesting art period will make all the difference in creating a great term project! You are not limited to which period you choose.
Use the list below to choose a period of art to research and for your first research resource.
- Early Renaissance - Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Giotto
- High Renaissance - da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto
- Northern Renaissance - Hieronymous Bosch, Peter Brueghel the Elder, Jan van Eyck
- Baroque - Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Diego Velazquez
- Mannerism - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Correggio, El Greco
- Impressionism - Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir
- Post Impressionism - Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau
- Art Nouveau - Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley
- Futurism - Boccioni, Balla, Severini
- Fauvism - Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain
- Expressionism - Kandinsky, Kirchner, Modigliani, Munch
- Cubism - Picasso, Braque, Leger, Gris
- Dada - Picabia, Duchamp, Man Ray
- Harlem Renaissance - Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas
- Bauhaus - Klee, Kandinsky, Josef Albers
- Surrealism - Dali, Magritte, Miro, Ernst
- Abstract Expressionism - Pollack, de Kooning, Rothko, Clyfford, Still, Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler
- Op Art - Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, Victor Vasarely
- Pop Art - Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, George Segal, Alex Katz
- Minimalism - Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin
- Photo-Realism - Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack
- Neo-Expressionism - Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischel, Anselm Kiefer, David Salle
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