Hello, I m a student and the university I went to didn’t do a good job of telling me all the different forms or eras of art.
So what are the art era classifications?
Is there a website that lists them all?
What about architectural classifications?
SO stuff like art noveau, art deco, gothic, renissance ect I only know a few,
basiccally I want cgtalk to teach me my art history.
I do belive this will aid me in my goal of becomeing a concept artist.
Thanks for your time guys
-ANdrew
SO stuff like art noveau, art deco, gothic, renissance ect I only know a few,
basiccally I want cgtalk to teach me my art history.I do belive this will aid me in my goal of becomeing a concept artist.
Bad news- you have several thousand years of art history to catch up on, I suggest getting some really thick books out of your local library and skimming them.
Good news- most of this is easily available online if you Google it.
I’m not trying to be a smartass or anything but your question is really vague and would probably require a minimum of a ten page answer that no-one is likely to type out- see the stickies at the top of the board , but otherwise, hit the library.
Very briefly: 
First things first: Different countries and regions in the world have different periods of art history. It takes a big book to discuss them all. (David Piper’s book is excellent, forgot the name of it!) I will deal with western art, just because it’s the type I know best.
Early man: Lascaux cave paintings. Aboriginal art. Stencils, chalk. Early colors were discovered, mainly ochres.
Greek ‘period’ : Things like this : 
(this is Laocoon and his sons, a tale extracted from the Iliad)
Also discovered during this period was mosaic and basic wall art with egg tempura added to the ochres mentioned above. This was also added to the colors discovered by the egyptians, including the blues of the lapis lazuli and turquoise)
After the glory of ancient greece and mesopotamia fell, most art dealt with religious themes, lots of wall paintings.
…until the huns invaded the east. Then a lot of scholars from the east fled to Florence, thus influxing the city with an unprecendented wealth of knowledge. The position of florence (trading city) and its universities meant that it quickly became the cradle of the renaissance and the humanist movement. The humanist movement celebrated the achievements of humans and clamored for the renaissance (or ‘rebirth’) of the glory of ancient Greece. Masaccio ‘discovered’ perspective.
This gave rise to the Renaissance (think :
Michelangelo…and Leonardo, Raphael and that endless list.
The renaissance was fueled mostly by the church and lay patrons.
The renaissance ‘grew’ into the mannerism movement, i.e-
Darker paintings, lengthened limbs. This was taken up later by El Greco and other artists from throughout europe.
Meanwhile, up in the netherlands and Germany, they were being influenced by the renaissance/mannerism movements and produced baroque:
Which was a rather more contemporary, detailed version of mannerism. Baroque is known for its rich, deep colors. Caravaggio and Rembrandt are prime examples.
After Baroque came Neo-Classicism. This was mostly in France-
Ingres and David.
(by Ingres)
Part 2 coming soon!
But, surprise!
Monet, Renoir and his ilk came along- they painted outside and wanted to give brief impressions of what they saw, rather than highly detailed, ‘contrived’ paintings—
(monet)
Impressionism led to other similar types of art- pointillism, the main advocate of which was Seurat:
Here’s where art starts to get rather divided. Impressionism influenced cubism (picasso) and fauvism (die brucke group). Surrealism (dali and magritte) .
There was a period after the first world war where decoration and such became the epitome of art- the victorian era, which produced William Morris. The focus of his work was decoration, floral motifs…
This in turn encouraged the Art Nouveau movement- flowing floral motifs everywhere!
Art Nouveau turned into Art Deco in a rather strange way- it was during the 20s, also after the war, the economy was pretty good and everyone felt thoroughly modern. This was epitomised by geometric shapes, particularly circles and fan shapes: the Empire state building and Tamara Lempicka:
1950s…1960s…sort of Picasso/dali stuff…I don’t really know too much about this period.
Then!
Andy Warhol and the pop artists came along…David Hockney…
Hope this helps. I’ll be back to fill in a few gaps later.
Paperclip’s effort is far, far, far more impressive, but here’s a quick timeline from Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_periods
Thanks martin 
I just wanted to portray the general flow of art history, most ‘isms’ that I can think of are an offshoot of this flow. If anyone thinks of anything I missed, feel free to tell me!
I forgot the gothic/romanesque periods, but I will put them in tonight.
A ty ty this has been most helpfull. What was hurting me in my search was not looking for the word “movements”. Ty ty. Im studying this subject closly inorder to help me with my concept art. I’m now researching architectural movements.
Thanks again.
Illustrated History of Art?
It’s a very decent book for a general overview of art history- less words, more pictures than some of the alternatives, decent price too.
And it is a big book.
-Steve
As far as gothic and romanesque goes (or anything else for that matter) Wikipedia is our friend:
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