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  2. Timeline for invention in the arts - Wikipedia

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    The Readymade expanded the definition of art and of an artist. [4] 1917 – De Stijl, a kind of art based on pure geometry, was invented by Theo van Doesburg. 1926 – Science fiction movies were invented by Fritz Lang with his movie Metropolis, which incorporates dynamic visual and special effects. [1]

  3. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, ... 1500 – 1700; Heptanese School – 1650 – 1830, began on Ionian Islands; Romanticism

  4. History of art - Wikipedia

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    A form of prehistoric art found all over the world, especially in Europe, small prehistoric statuettes known as Venus figurines with exaggerated breasts and bellies were made, the most famous ones being the Venus of Hohle Fels and the Venus of Willendorf, found in Germany and Austria. Most have small heads, wide hips, and legs that taper to a ...

  5. French Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European [1] Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe.

  6. Timeline of art - Wikipedia

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    1909 in art – Death of Pinckney Marcius-Simons, Birth of Francis Bacon, Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse completes The Dance, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of Analytic Cubism; 1908 in art – Death of Giovanni Fattori, Richard Gerstl, Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ashcan School ...

  7. Renaissance technology - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance technology was the set of European artifacts and inventions which spread through the Renaissance period, roughly the 14th century through the 16th century. The era is marked by profound technical advancements such as the printing press, linear perspective in drawing, patent law, double shell domes and bastion fortresses.

  8. Dutch Golden Age painting - Wikipedia

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    The full development of this specialization is seen from the late 1620s, and the period from then until the French invasion of 1672 is the core of Golden Age painting. Artists would spend most of their careers painting only portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes and ships, or still lifes , and often a particular sub-type within these ...

  9. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    The heritage of painters like Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Seurat was essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive, landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism .