ABCs of Art History

'ABCs of Art History' is a personal project that was developed as part of 36 Days of Type, an annual global creative challenge to design the letters and numbers from the Latin alphabet over 36 days. With each new letterform, I navigated through the timeline of art history over the centuries from cave paintings to modern art and everything in between. Each illustration channels a unique period/style/or artist from history and progresses chronologically. Through many hours of research and curation, this series provides a glimpse at how visual culture has changed over the centuries of human history.

Letter A | Cave Paintings (14,000 BC)

Letter B | Ancient Egyptian Wall Paintings (3,000 BC)

Letter C | Chinese Jade Sculptures (2,000 BC)

Letter D | Greek Pottery (530 BC)

Letter E | Greek Architecture (447 BC)

Letter F | Roman Statue (200 AD)

Letter G | Byzantine Mosaic (400 AD)

Letter H | Illuminated Manuscript (800 AD)

Letter I | Stained Glass Cathedral (1000 AD)

Letter J | Leonardo da Vinci’s Sketches (1480)

Letter K | Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel (1512)

Letter L | Turkish Tiles (1580)

Letter M | Baroque (1630)

Letter N | Dutch Still Life (1650)

Letter O | Wedgwood Pottery (1759)

Letter P | Japanese Woodblock Printing (1830)

Letter Q | Vincent Van Gogh, Impressionism (1889)

Letter R | Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau (1896)

Letter S | Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow Style (1903)

Letter T | Fauvism (1905)

Letter U | Gustav Klimt (1908)

Letter V | Pablo Picasso, Cubism (1912)

Letter W | Bauhaus (1921)

Letter X | Art Deco (1925)

Letter Y | El Lissitzky, Constructivism (1925)

Letter Z | Salvador Dali, Surrealism (1931)

Number 0 | Georgia O'Keeffe (1946)

Number 1 | Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionism (1954)

Number 2 | Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art (1963)

Number 3 | Bridget Riley, Op Art (1966)

Number 4 | Andy Goldsworthy, Land Art (1976)

Number 5 | Keith Haring (1987)

Number 6 | Damien Hirst (1991)

Number 7 | Jeff Koons (2000)

Number 8 | Yayoi Kusama (2017)

Number 9 | Chuck Close (2021)

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