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40,000 BCE
Beginnings
The artistic cultural expression began with the early humans. Humans used to express mainly their thoughts, using cave paintings, or rituals. The function of this artistic expression is to communicate different thoughts while also using creativity and self thinking -
Period: 3000 BCE to 575 BCE
Ancient
Many ancient civilizations such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece started producing many artistic things such as architectural advances, sculptures, and many art pieces which some of them might be conserved today. The world started to get an impact on this as the artistic expression took more shape in order to be a real option as an expression -
Period: 476 to 1453
Middle Ages
The expression started focusing on religious themes, with lots of decorations including cathedrals with mosaics. After this period, a lot of artists like DaVinci innovated with humanism aspects -
Period: 1300 to
Renassaince
This marked the rebirth of the artistic aspects. Many innovations were presented, classical ideas changed. Music and art were changed across the years, having a significant evolution to what we have nowadays. -
Romanticism
In this period, individual emotions and nature power were expressed with poems and novel art pieces. Many great artists surged from the romanticism ideas and it has a clear impact nowadays. -
Modernism
Movements like Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract art, led by Picasso and Dalí, remade conventions and embraced new innovations on this period of time, getting closer to the most modern period of our current time. -
Postmodernism
Pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art emerge. This redefined artistic boundaries and cultural commentary on the world, and made a last huge step before stepping into present day. -
Period: to
Present day
Globalization and technology influence contemporary art, using diverse media, themes, and cultures in dynamic, and modern ways. Present marks the current resources and artistic expressions that impact our daily life.