Unit 5: Contextual Influnces in Art and Design

Timeline

This assignment instructed us to create a timeline with the purpose of cataloguing all the major art movements in the 19th Century and the 20th. This helped me to direct my future research in an easier and more precise manor. By making this timeline I was able to choose a decade that I could present to my peers. 

One fantastic thing about this timeline is how you can see how each movement has influenced the other. this can be closing observed by looking at expressionism and how the use of shapes and colours slowly started making a sub genre called cubism and eventually becoming its own movement. However the correlation between art movements isn't always so peaceful. Impressionism flourished in about the 1870's and was born out of the hatred of being told what to paint, before impressionism you couldn't paint what the upper society deemed not worthy, essentially not showing real life, but it was spawned from people not liking realism much.