She said that“Art is the signature of civilizations”

It is a timeline of vast accumulation of movements, periods and styles that reflect the time during which each piece of art was made.

These were around 44,000 B.C.E. to 400 BCE. It can be considered as the art period that includes cave paintings, fertility statues and bone flutes to approximately the end of the Roman empire. A variety of art styles were produced over this lasting period. This Art period includes those of prehistory to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the nomadic tribes.

This art is of indigenous mammals; a small water buffalo, a warty pig, and a pig-deer, and hand stencils. It was discovered in the 1950's.

This period includes the works found in classical civilizations like the Greeks and Celts as well as that of the early Chinese dynasties. The artwork of this time is as varying as the cultures that created it. What relates them together is their purpose

Characteristics: Cave paintings, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures

Characteristic: Religious and symbolic imagery, decorations for utilitarian objects, mythological stories

Warrior art and narration in stone

Afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb paintings; massive, monumental structures massive, monumental structures

Greek idealism; perfect proportions; architectural orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthians)

Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch

This Art reflects the plurality of beliefs, Hindu Temples, which depicts their architecture and where sculptures are found, typically are devoted to different deities. It is portrayed by holy symbols like the Om, an invocation of divine consciousness of God; the swastika, a symbol of auspiciousness; and the lotus flower, a symbol of purity, beauty, fertility, and transcendence. It is believed that the Christian "Amen" and Islamic "Amin" are both derived from Om.

This art evolved through its history. As political and social circumstances changed and new technologies developed, so did its art. The important qualities include a love of nature, a credence in the moral and educative capacity of art, an appreciation of simplicity, an gratitude of accomplished brushwork, an interest in viewing the subject from various perspectives, and a loyalty to much-used motifs and designs from lotus leaves to dragons.

This art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, calligraphy on silk and paper, ink painting, kirigami, origami, and dorodango sculpture, and, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, and more recently manga, a modern method of Japanese cartooning and comics.

Characteristic: Serene, meditative, art, and Arts of the Floating World

It is about religious expression and more specifically about church doctrine translated into aesthetic forms.

Characteristic: Heavenly Byzantine mosaics,; Islamic architecture and amazing maze-like design

To some, the millennium from 400 and 1400 A.D. is considered as the Dark Ages, where the art in this period were depicted as grotesque or brutal scenes while others were focused on formalized religion. Most of the art created were melancholy. Characteristic: Dark imagery, biblical subjects, Classical mythology, Gothic architecture, Romanesque, Celtic Art, Carolingian Renaissance

It literally means rebirth and describes the resurgence of curiosity in the artistic achievements of Greece and Rome.

Characteristic: Rebirth of classical culture

The period of this was famous due to advance technique in oil painting, realistic, vivid altarpiece art, wooden panel paintings, woodcuts, and printmaking.

The Renaissance extends northward to France, Low Countries, Poland, Germany and England

It introduced a highly imaginative period in art after the climax of excellence that naturalistic painting had attained in Renaissance Italy. Artists started to deviate from classical influences and turn toward a further intellectual and expressive approach. Characteristic: Art that breaks the rules, artifice over nature

This word means something that is elaborate and highly detailed

It is characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. Characteristic: Splendour and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars

It is considered a period of enlightenment. The movement started in Europe in the 1700's and spread into the colonies. The focus of this was on government, ethics, and science which varies from the previous period that focused on religion, imagination, and emotions. Characteristic: Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur

It rapidly spread all over Europe and the United States at the end of the 18th century to the 19th. The period extolled abstract, complex ideas like despair, hope, heroism, liberty, peace, survival, and other impressions that nature evokes in human beings. Characteristic: The triumph of imagination and individuality

It is also called naturalism. The accurate, detailed, straightforward depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Characteristic: Celebrating working class and peasants; air rustic painting

It refers to late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century art. Works produced during this time showcase artists’ interest in re-imagining, reinterpreting, and even rejecting traditional aesthetic values of preceding styles. Starting with light and airy Impressionism and ending with energetic Abstract Expressionism, the modern art genre is composed of several major movements.

This is the style of painting that emerged in the mid and late 1800s. The movement emphasizes on an artist’s immediate impression of a moment or scene, communicated through the effect of light and its reflection, short brush strokes and separation of colors.

It bridged the gap between the restrictive techniques found in the impressionist period and the emphasis on geometry found in modern art. It is an art movement characterized by a subjective approach to painting, as artists opted to evoke emotion rather than realism in their work. Characteristic: A soft revolt against impressionism

It is a term to denote the use of distortion and exaggeration for emotional eect, which first surfaced in the art literature of the early twentieth century. The artists used pure, brilliant color applied straight from the paint tubes to create bright effects from the canvass.

It is an artistic style in which the artist attempts to portray not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events awaken in him. It is accomplished through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy through vivid, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.

Characteristic: Harsh colors and flat surfaces (fauvism) Emotion distorting form

It is an artistic movement, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It employs geometric shapes in depictions of human and other forms. Overtime, the geometric touches grew so intense that they sometimes overtook the represented forms, creating a pure level of visual abstraction.

It is an Italian art movement that took speed, technology, and modernity as its inspiration. It portrayed the dynamic character of 20th century life, elevated war, and machine age, and favored the growth of Fascism.

Characteristic: Pre-post World War I art experiment; new forms to express modern life

It is the first conceptual art movement where the focus of the artists was not to craft aesthetically pleasing objects but create works that upended bourgeois sensibilities. It aimed to generate difficult questions about the society, the role of the artist and the purpose of art. Dada artist are identified to use ready-made objects with little manipulation.

It intends to channel the unconscious means to unlock the power of imagination. Strongly influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealist’s considers the rational mind repressed the power of imagination, weighing it down with taboos. It was also influenced by Karl Marx in the sense that surrealists hoped that the human psyche had the power to reveal contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution.

Characteristic: Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the unconscious

It is an art movement of mostly non- representative painting. It was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and comprised several fairly various styles

It is a movement marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the auence in post-war society. It was most prominent in American art but soon spread to Britain

Characteristic: Post WWII,: pure abstraction and expression without form; popular art absorbs consumerism

It is the art of today, created by artists who are living in the twenty-first century. It provides a chance to reflect on contemporary civilization and the matters relevant to us, and the world around us.

It refers to a group of movements that began in the late 1950s and early 1960s, during which artist rejected established practices and questioned the importance of their roles in the artistic process. Artist in this period use familiar images from consumer and pop culture and mass media to confront or question art and society. Their work has an irreverent almost mocking view of artistic importance.

Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles

It is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building. It is characterized by an absence of harmony, continuity, or symmetry

This Canadian-American iis the most well-known proponent of Deconstructivism building design. He is one of the prominent American architects of the Postmodern era.