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HISTORY OF ART


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HISTORY OF ART IS SIMPLE

PREHISTORY . FIRST CIVILIZATIONS . ANCIENT ART . EARLY MIDDLE AGES . MIDDLE AGES
EARLY MODERN ART . ROMANTICISM . PRE-MODERNISM . MODERNISM PART I . MODERNISM PART II
SECOND AVANT-GARDE . POSTMODERNISM . NEO-EXPRESSIONISM . NEO-CONCEPTUALISM

It's hard to guess what made the first people to create works of art and what this piece was. Most likely, the base of all art is religion, contacting man with the intangible world and freeing him from the fear of the mystery of being. If, however, this impulse can be explained by fear and willingness to placate the magical powers, it's much harder to explain is the tendency of man to create things without magic function, but simply beautiful. Perhaps prehistoric man believed that magical powers will find pleasure in things just fine. Even if it did, it still does not know how was the concept of beauty and how people distinguish the beautiful things from the non-beautiful.
Probably the primary concept of beauty was created as a derivative of valuables, rare, effort and uniqueness. If the man wanted to win a magical powers, then they should get the gift of what is most difficult to acquire or manufacture. Probably because for almost the whole history of art, performance of art work requires exceptional talent and unique skills.
These issues are fascinating but difficult to resolve, and for practical reasons it was necessary to introduce some order in art history, which is derived from the division of the history of civilization. And in this order we gather our WORLDMUSEUM collections.
Our SHORTCUTS are brief discussions of the major periods and styles.

	NEW: JAPAN ART
	PREHISTORIC ART which lasted until about 3500 BC, covering the period from the rise of the first preserved objects, which are treated as works of art, to the appearance of the first hierarchical civilization
	SZTUKA PIERWSZYCH CYWILIZACJI which lasted until around 1200 BC, including art created in societies organized according to some hierarchy and linked by a common belief system
	ANCIENT ART which lasted from about 1000 BC to the 200, and cover art of the archaic, classical art, art of Hellenistic and Roman art. Its difference from the first piece of civilization is, among other things, that it has developed after the so-called. dark ages (1200 - 900), during which took place a hypothetical invasion of the peoples of the sea causing a clear decline, after which European culture began its development as it were from the beginning
	EARLY CHRISTIAN ART including Coptic art, the art of Western Europe and early-Byzantine art. With the end of the era is considered different events - the end of the migration of peoples, the beginning of the Muslim expansion in Europe and the first iconoclasm
	MEDIEVAL ART developing from the eighth to the fourteenth century, and including pre-Romanesque art, end-stage phase of Byzantine art, Romanism, Gothic and proto-Renaissance
	EARLY MODERN ART evolving from the early fifteenth to the late eighteenth century and including the Renaissance and Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo and Classicism of the Enlightenment
	ART OF THE XIX CENTURY which is due to the groundbreaking nature of the era, the secularization of art, creation and development of modern philosophy and science and the consequent proliferation of styles and trends is quite difficult to clearly classify, but which can be divided into two main stages:
	ROMANTICISM including Romanticism, Realism, Historicism, Nazarenism and the origins of Symbolism
	SPRE-MODERN ART who prepared the development of modern art and includes impressionist and cubist version of Realism, pre-Expressionism, Symbolism, Formalism, and Art Nouveau
	MODERN ART - UP TO WORLD WAR I growing in the early twentieth century and includes many directions, the main ones being Realism, Fauvism, Cubism, Suprematism, and abstract expressionism of Wasilly Kandinsky
	MODERNISM - UP TO WORLD WAR II World War I led to a clear "profiling" of separate currents of modern art. On one hand, the war sparked an interest in social reality (Constructivism, the New Objectivity, social-realism), on the other hand strengthened the destructive tendencies, the sense of absurdity and despair in the sense of high art, and the treatment of fun and ridicule as a remedy for impotence against the complicated history (all varieties of of Dadaism)
	CONTEMPORARY ART - AFTER WORLD WAR II
	RADICAL (OR SECOND) AVANT-GARDE which in the radical form continued development of modernism (especially american abstract expressionism) and created new lines of "plebeian" art, as Pop art and its variants
	POSTMODERNISM growing out of Dadaism about 1960 and questioning the meaning of work of art as a result of the creative process. His symbols are Happening, Performacnce, Body art, Installations, Conceptual art, etc.
	NEO-EXPRESSIONISM growing from about 1980 as a street art and wild reaction against anti-art of Pop art and speculative Conceptualism
	RENEWAL ART - CLASSICAL REALISM develops from around 1970 and continues the tradition of nineteenth-century academic qualities, in response to a complete collapse of high art and nihilism of anti-art
	NEO-CONCEPTUALISM I RE-MODERNISM which symbols are created around 1990 the English movement Brit-art and Stuckism, and which (except published manifestos) probably is no longer about anything except a place in a prestigious galleries