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| 27334677 | cave painting | early art showed man's relationship to spiritual ritual, nature and hunting | 0 | |
| 27334678 | egyptian art | emphasized the unknowable mystery of the afterlife | 1 | |
| 27334679 | greek art | emphasized the perfection of the human form, human activity | 2 | |
| 27334680 | roman art | began to portray actual individuals. Includes, sculpture, frescoe, jewlery and crafts. Incredible architectural, engineering feats. | 3 | |
| 27334681 | byzantine art | also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, in Constantinople, now Istanbul, the early church developed Eastern Orthodoxy and iconic Christian images proliferated | 4 | |
| 27334682 | summerian art | early art from Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) from the mid 6th millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium BC | 5 | |
| 27334683 | african art | Varied and complex, discoveries of these, often figurative works, prompted many of the inventions of modern art. | 6 | |
| 27334684 | mayan culture | 1500 B.C. to 900 A.D. This is the most advanced civilization of the time in the Western Hempishere. Famous for its awe-inspiring temples, pyramids and cities. A complex social and political order. | 7 | |
| 27334687 | asian art | refers to a vast array of cultural works east of Mesopotamia | 8 | |
| 27334688 | dark ages | period after the fall of Rome. Much of the knowledge gained by earlier civilizations was lost. | 9 | |
| 58245405 | Italian Rennaissance | period in which 'classical' understanding of the figure was reborn. An understanding of linear perspective made works of this period highly realistic. | 10 | |
| 58245406 | Northern Renaissance | a period of painting that flourished in northern europe after the Italian Renaissance. Paintings were often of individuals in interiors. | 11 | |
| 58245407 | Romanticism | work that reflected a passionate approach to the landscape | 12 | |
| 58245408 | cubism | in these paintings multiple planes of space are viewed at once | 13 | |
| 58245409 | fauvism | paintings that emphasized wild use of saturated color | 14 | |
| 58245410 | pointillism | images made out of dots or small elements | 15 | |
| 58245411 | minimalism | art which was exceptionally simple, often pure color-field paintings, for example | 16 | |
| 58245412 | abstract expressionism | art, made largely in New York after WWII, that emphasized the expression of the individual often with large, 'painterly' brush strokes | 17 | |
| 58245413 | impressionism | paintings that sought to capture the feeling of natural light by putting colors next to eachother and letting the viewer's eye 'mix' them. | 18 | |
| 58245414 | pop art | art of the 1960's that blurred the edges between advertising art and fine art | 19 |
