Outline of painting history
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of painting:
History of painting – painting is the production of paintings, that is, the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base, such as paper, canvas, or a wall); the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted tradition from Antiquity.
Prehistoric painting[]
- Pre-historic art
- Cave painting
- Petroglyph
- Pictogram
- List of Stone Age art
Ancient painting[]
- Art of Ancient Egypt
- Knossos
- Mycenaean Greece
- Pottery of ancient Greece
- Roman art
- Pompeian Styles
- Fayum mummy portraits
- Early Christian art and architecture
History of western painting[]
Medieval painting[]
- Medieval art
- Byzantine art
- Insular art
- Carolingian art
- Ottonian art
- Romanesque art
- Gothic art
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Illuminated manuscript
- Miniature (illuminated manuscript)
- Panel painting
Painting during the Renaissance[]
- Early Renaissance painting
- Italian Renaissance painting
- Northern European Renaissance painting
- Artists of the Tudor court
- High Renaissance painting
- Mannerism
Baroque painting[]
18th-century painting[]
19th-century painting[]
- Romanticism
- Academic art
- Realism
- Naturalism (art)
- Hudson River School
- Luminism
- Impressionism
- Pre-Raphaelites
- Symbolism
- Post-Impressionism
- Neo-Impressionism
- Pointillism
- Divisionism
- Art Nouveau
20th-century painting[]
This list is in random order. Date given is for the start of the style or movement.
- Fauvism (Les Fauves) 1905
- Cubism 1907
- Jack of Diamonds 1910
- Orphism
- Synchromism 1912
- Dada
- Surrealism
- Geometric abstraction
- Rayonnism
- Expressionism
- Abstract art
- Abstract Expressionism 1946
- Post-painterly abstraction 1964
- Neo-expressionism
- Art Deco
- Futurism 1909
- Op art
- Pop art
- Minimalism
- Art Brut / Folk Art / Naïve Art / Outsider Art
- Suprematism 1913
- Vorticism 1914
- Tachism
- Constructivism
- Russian avant-garde
- De Stijl (Neoplasticism)
- Neue Sachlichkeit
- American realism
- Social Realism
- Socialist realism
- Action painting
- Lyrical Abstraction 1967
- Monochrome painting
- Leningrad School
- Russian Non-Conformist
- Photorealism
- Concept art
- Neue Wilde
- Figuration Libre
- Graffiti
- Stuckism 1999
21st-century painting[]
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History of eastern painting[]
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See also[]
- Art history
- Western painting
- History of painting
- History of art
- Painting
- Index of painting-related articles
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