Between “Eternity” and “Now”: A Brief History of Art

1. Pre-modernism: Eternity
2. Modernisms: History 
1. 15th-16th century: Humanist Renaissance 
1. Harmony
2. Anatomy 
3. Perspective
4. The Camera obscura
2. 17th-18th century: Enlightenment
3. 19th-20th century: Modernism
4. When Modern Artists Discover “Motion Pictures”
3. Post-modernism: Now (me me generation)

It is strange to try to represent or include time in a visual medium such as painting. It would be more natural in music or literature because Visual arts deal with flat (two dimensional, 2D-) surfaces. This is maybe why some visual artists are fascinated by time: it is a mystery out of their realm.