Trivium Art History

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300 CEByzantine Art Medieval Art Tang Dynasty Medieval Persian Art Islamic Dynastic Art Viking Age Khmer Art Classical Oceania Song Dynasty Gothic Art Inca Empire Yuan Dynasty The Aztecs1500

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Industrial Revolution

1800Oceanic Art Romanticism Orientalism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

Contemporary Art

1960Pop Art Shona Sculpture Post Modernism Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Zaire School of Popular Painting2020

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Meiji Art

1868 — 1912

100 Aspects, No 3. Rising Moon Over Mt. Nanping, 1885

The end of feudalism begins with the search for knowledge

Masakiyo Conquering Korea

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1864

a fool is a man with no intellect, and a man without learning cannot have intellect

An Encouragement for Learning

View of Takanawa Ushimachi under a Shrouded Moon

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親, 1879

Kudanzaka at Night in Early Summer

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親, 1880

100 Aspects, No 3. Rising Moon Over Mt. Nanping

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885

100 Aspects, No 8. Moonlight Patrol

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885

Moon and Smoke

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1886

Attacking the Enemy Camp at Jiuliancheng

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親, 1894

Braving the Bitter Cold

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親, 1895

The Advance to Weihaiwei

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親, 1895

Reflection in the Water

Hishida Shunsō, 1897

Autumn Landscape

Hishida Shunsō, 1899

Fishing Boat on the Lake

Hishida Shunsō, 1900

Hydrangeas, 紫陽花

Hishida Shunsō, 1902

Naval Battle at the Entrance of Inchon

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親, 1904

Cat and Plum Blossoms, 猫梅

Hishida Shunsō, 1906

Bodhisattva Kenshu, 賢首菩薩

Hishida Shunsō, 1907

Fallen Leaves, 落ち葉 (Ochiba)

Hishida Shunsō, 1909

Black Cat, 黒き猫

Hishida Shunsō, 1910

Even if someone paints a 'green sun', I will not say it is wrong.

A Green Sun

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Ghosts, madness, and the blood-soaked end of feudalism

Hishida Shunsō

A quiet boy paints cats in a new style

Kobayashi Kiyochika 清親

The vast loneliness of progress

Early Modernism
Tradition be damned.

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