500-1500: The Middle Ages stretched roughly from the fifth century to the fifteenth century.
It began with the collapse of the Roman Empire and althrough Roman customs continued
for a while, it was soon replaced by a system of running society called "feudalism."
This system made skill with the sword the most powerful and made kings
and landholders powerful.

1500-1700: Renaissance meaning literally "rebirth," describes the radical and comprehensive
changes that took place in European culture during the 15th and 16th centuries, bringing about
the demise of the Middle Ages and embodying for the first time the values of the modern world.

1700-1800: Baroque can be defined by the desire to evoke emotional states by appealing to the
senses, often in dramatic ways, underlies its manifestations.

1800-1900: Classicism is characterizing art in which adherence to recognized aesthetic ideals
is accorded greater importance that individuality of expression.

1800-1900: Romanticism was to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against
18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

1885 – 1920: Imressionism developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour.

1880-1890: Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) was characterized by writhing plant forms and an opposition
to the historicism which had plagued the 19th century. There was a tension implicit throughout the movement between the decorative and the modern, which can be seen in the work of individual
designers as well as in the chronology of the whole.

1905-1945: Expressionism(Fauvism) describes various art forms but, in its broadest sense,
it is used to describe any art that raises subjective feelings above objective observations.

1907-1930: After Cubism, the world never looked the same again: it was one of the most influential
and revolutionary movements in art. The Spaniard Pablo Picasso and the Frenchman Georges Braque
splintered the visual world not wantonly, but sensuously and beautifully with their new art.
They provided what we could almost call a God's-eye view of reality: every aspect of the whole subject, seen simultaneously in a single dimension.

1910-1945: Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience
so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in
"an absolute reality, a surreality."

1930s-1960s Abstract Expressionism was A painting movement in which artists typically
applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto the canvas.