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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 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 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

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

Social Realism

1900 — 1950

Migrant Mother, 1936

Realism as a weapon

Painting from memory

Pedro Figari

Iconic photographer bar None

Dorothea Lange

Modern Day Polymath

Gordon Parks

Expressionism
A more authentic, anxious, and grotesque reality