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40000 BCEUpper Paleolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age0 CE

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

300 CEByzantine Art Medieval Art Medieval Persian Art Islamic Dynastic Art Viking Age Khmer Art Song Dynasty Gothic Art Yuan Dynasty1500

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

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

Constructivism

1919 — 1935

Be Ready!, 1932

Art should only serve society.

Construction

Construction

Aleksandr Rodchenko1920

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

El Lissitzky1920

The organization of artistic elements must be applied to the design of the material elements of everyday life.

Notes on Constructivist Art

Liubov Popova1921

Dobrolet

Dobrolet

Aleksandr Rodchenko1923

About This. To Her and to Me

About This. To Her and to Me

Aleksandr Rodchenko1923

Maiakovskii ulybaetsia

Maiakovskii ulybaetsia

Aleksandr Rodchenko1923

Textile Design in Blue and Orange

Textile Design in Blue and Orange

Varvara Stepanova1924

Textile Design

Textile Design

Varvara Stepanova1924

Swatch of Original Fabric

Swatch of Original Fabric

Varvara Stepanova1924

Liubov Popova

Portrait of Liubov Popova

Liubov Popova

We shall remake the world

Textile Design in Yellow and Black

Textile Design in Yellow and Black

Varvara Stepanova1924

Textile Design in Black and White

Textile Design in Black and White

Varvara Stepanova1924

Design for unisex sports apparel

Design for unisex sports apparel

Varvara Stepanova1928

New LEF: Journal of the Left Front of the Arts

New LEF: Journal of the Left Front of the Arts

Aleksandr Rodchenko1927-1928

Red Army Men

Red Army Men

Varvara Stepanova1930

Be Ready!

Be Ready!

Varvara Stepanova1932

El Lissitzky

Portrait of El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

Painting symbols of a new world

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Portrait of Aleksandr Rodchenko

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Art with a message

Varvara Stepanova

Portrait of Varvara Stepanova

Varvara Stepanova

Art for the people, people for the state

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Geometry, ornamentation, and lots and lots of money