Trivium Art History

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40000 BCEUpper Paleolithic Neolithic Norte Chico Civilization Indus Valley Civilization Bronze Age Iron Age0 CE

4000 BCEAncient Egypt Mesopotamia Aegean Civilizations Ancient China Kingdom of Kush Lapita Expansion Ancient Greece The Celts The Etruscans Ancient Rome The Iberians Teotihuacan Culture Classical India500 CE

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

Age of Discovery

1300Italian Renaissance Ming Dynasty Kingdom of Kongo Northern Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Mughal Art Mannerism Baroque Edo Period Qing Dynasty Academic Art The Enlightenment Western Esoteric Art Rococo Neoclassicism1850

Industrial Revolution

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

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Post-Impressionism

1886 — 1905

Beyond nature, toward emotional simplicity.

Rocks in the Forest

Paul Cézanne, 1865-1868

Portrait of a Man

John Singer Sargent, 1868

Bathers

Paul Cézanne, 1870

Bathers

Paul Cézanne, 1875

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket

James McNeill Whistler, 1875

Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1872-1875

Nocturne

James McNeill Whistler, 1870-1877

Still Life With Fruit Dish

Paul Cézanne, 1879-1880

Edge of a Wood

Vincent Van Gogh, 1881

Woman Sewing

Vincent Van Gogh, 1881

Beach at Scheveningen

Vincent Van Gogh, 1882

The Houses on Schenkweg where Van Gogh Lived

Vincent Van Gogh, 1882

Landscape with Dune

Vincent Van Gogh, 1882

Sorrow

Vincent Van Gogh, 1882

Bathers at Asnières

Georges Seurat, 1884

Portrait of Madame Cezanne

Paul Cézanne, 1885

A Carnival Evening

Henri Rousseau, 1885

The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cézanne, 1885

Mont Sainte–Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley

Paul Cézanne, 1885

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat, 1884-1886

Portrait of Vincent van Gogh

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887

Self-Portrait 1887

Vincent Van Gogh, 1887

Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre

Vincent Van Gogh, 1887

Portrait of Eugène Boch

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Self Portrait in the role of Jean Valjean

Paul Gauguin, 1888

Head of a Girl

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Self-portrait as an Artist

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

The Red Vineyard

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Orchard with Arles in the Background

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Sunflowers

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Portrait of Armand Roulin

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Portrait of Millet Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Portrait of Joseph Roulin

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (September 1889)

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Two Girls on a Lawn

John Singer Sargent, 1889

Portrait of Trabuc - Attendant at Saint Paul Hospital

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Self-portrait 1889

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

The Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Flowering Bushes in the Asylum Garden

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Boy in a Red Waistcoat

Paul Cézanne, 1888-1890

Wheatfield with Crows

Vincent Van Gogh, 1890

Almond Blossom

Vincent Van Gogh, 1890

Myself: Portrait – Landscape

Henri Rousseau, 1890

Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary elements and the analogy of similar elements of tone, color and line...

The Aesthetics of Tone, Color, and Line

Georges Seurat, 1890

Vincent Van Gogh

Eloquent writer forges new path in painting

Georges Seurat

Manipulating emotion with color

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Too many prostitutes and too much absinth

James McNeill Whistler

A lesson in making enemies

Paul Gauguin

In search of a lost paradise

Paul Cézanne

A lifelong struggle to capture the intensity of life

Henri Rousseau

Painting dreams with a child's brush

Suzanne Valadon

Provocative model becomes a transgressive artist

Amrita Sher-Gil

The truncated lives of women

Emily Carr

Hard-smoking woman documents Canada's native people

Pierre Bonnard

All in with color

Ásgrímur Jónsson

Grand Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon

Pablo Picasso

The man who ate the world's art

Élisabeth Chaplin

A life's worth of paintings dedicated to Florence

Grégoire Michonze

No story. Pure poetry.

Art Nouveau
Out with the old, in with the sexy

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