art movements

ART PERIODS

Modern art - late 19th century - c. 1970
Note: The countries listed are the country in which the
movement or group started. Most modern art movements
were international in scope.
Impressionism - 1863 - 1890, France
American Impressionism 1880, United States
Cos Cob Art Colony 1890s, United States
Heidelberg School late 1880s, Australia
Luminism (Impressionism)
Arts and Crafts movement - 1880 - 1910, United Kingdom
Tonalism - 1880 - 1920, United States
Symbolism (arts) - 1880 - 1910, France/Belgium
Russian Symbolism 1884 - c. 1910, Russia
Aesthetic movement 1868 - 1901, United Kingdom
Post-impressionism - 1886 - 1905, France
Pointillism 1880s, France
Les Nabis 1888 - 1900, France
Fauvism - 1904 - 1909, France
Cloisonnism c. 1885, France
Synthetism late 1880s - early 1890s, France
School of Paris early 20th century, France
Neo-impressionism 1886 - 1906, France
Art Nouveau - 1890 - 1914, France
Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) 1897, Austria
Jugendstil Germany, Scandinavia
Modernisme - 1890 to 1910, Catalan
Russian avant-garde - 1890 - 1930, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Art à la Rue 1890s - 1905, Belgium/France
Young Poland 1890 - 1918, Poland
Mir iskusstva 1899, Russia
Hagenbund 1900 - 1930, Austria
Expressionism - 1905 - 1930, Germany
Die Brücke 1905 - 1913, Germany
Der Blaue Reiter 1911, Germany
Bloomsbury Group - 1905 - c. 1945, England
Cubism - 1907 - 1914, France
Analytic Cubism 1909, France
Orphism - 1912, France
Purism - 1918 - 1926
Cubo-Expressionism 1909 - 1921
Ashcan School 1907, United States
Jack of Diamonds (artists) 1909, Russia
Futurism (art) - 1910 - 1930, Italy
Cubo-Futurism 1912 - 1915, Russia
Rayonism 1911, Russia
Synchromism 1912, United States
Universal Flowering 1913, Russia
Vorticism 1914 - 1920, United Kingdom
Biomorphism 1915 - 1940s
Suprematism 1915 - 1925, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Dada - 1916 - 1930, Switzerland
Proletkult 1917 - 1925, Soviet Union
Productijism after 1917, Russia
De Stijl (Neoplasticism) 1917 - 1931, Holland
Pittura Metafisica 1917, Italy
Arbeitsrat für Kunst 1918 - 1921
Bauhaus - 1919 - 1933, Germany
UNOVIS 1919 - 1922, Russia
Others group of artists 1919, United States
American Expressionism c. 1920 -
Precisionism c. 1920, United States
Surrealism Since 1920s, France
Acéphale France
Lettrism 1942 -
Les Automatistes 1946 - 1951, Canada
Devetsil 1920 - 1931
Group of Seven 1920 - 1933, Canada
Harlem renaissance 1920 - 1930s, United States
American scene painting c. 1920 - 1945, United States
New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) 1920s, Germany
Constructivism (art) 1920s, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Art Deco - 1920s - 1930s, France
Grupo Montparnasse 1922, France
Soviet art 1922 - 1986, Soviet Union
a. r. group 1929 - 1936
Northwest School (art) Hi's - 1940s, United States
Social realism, 1929, international
Socialist realism - c. 1930 - 1950, Soviet Union/Germany
Abstraction-Création 1931 - 1936, France
Allianz (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland
Art and Freedom 1939 - mid-1940s
Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States
Action painting United States
Color field painting
Lyrical Abstraction
COBRA (avant-garde movement) 1946 - 1952, Denmark/Belgium/Holland
Tachisme late-1940s - mid-1950s, France
Abstract Imagists United States
Arte Madí 1940s
Art informel mid-1940s - 1950s
Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United Kingdom/United States
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - 1946, Austria
The Concretists early 1950s -
Neo-Dada 1950s, international
International Typographic Style 1950s, Switzerland
Soviet Nonconformist Art 1953 - 1986, Soviet Union
Woodlands School 1958-1962, Canada
Russian Non-Conformist Russia/Ukraine
Pop Art mid-1950s, United Kingdom/United States
Situationism 1957 - early 1970s, Italy
Magic realism 1960s, Germany
Minimalism - 1960 -
Art and Language 1968, United Kingdom
Op Art 1964 -
Post-painterly abstraction 1964 -
Hard-edge painting 1960s, United States

Contemporary art – present

 (Note: there is overlap with what is considered
 "contemporary," "postmodern," and "modern art.")

Toyism 1992 - present
Digital art 1990 - present
Postmodern art - present
Modernism - present
New realism 1960 -
Performance art - 1960s -
Fluxus - early 1960s - late-1970s
Conceptual art - 1960s -
Graffiti 1960s-
Junk art 1960s -
Psychedelic art early 1960s -
Lyrical Abstraction mid-1960s -
Process art mid-1960s - 1970s
Arte Povera 1967 -
Photorealism - Late 1960s - early 1970s
Land art - late-1960s - early 1970s
Post-minimalism late-1960s - 1970s
Installation art - 1970s -
Mail art - 1970s -
Neo-expressionism late 1970s -
Metarealism - 1970 -1980, Russia
Figuration Libre early 1980s
Metaphorical realism
Young British Artists 1988 -
Rectoversion 1991 -
Transgressive art
Synaesthesia events
Neoism 1979
Deconstructivism
Battle Elephants 1984
Massurrealism 1992 -
Stuckism 1999 -
Remodernism 1999 -
Maximalism
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ART MOVEMENTS

19th centuryAcademic, c. 1500s–1900s
Aesthetic Movement
American Barbizon school
American Impressionism
Amsterdam Impressionism
Art Nouveau, c. 1890–1910
Arts and Crafts Movement, founded 1860s
Barbizon school, c. 1830s–1870s
Biedermeier, c. 1815-1848
Cloisonnism, c. 1888–1900s
Danish Golden Age
Decadent Movement
Divisionismc. 1880s–1910s
Düsseldorf School
Etching revival
Expressionism, c. 1890s–1930s
German Romanticism, c. 1790s–1850s
Gründerzeit
Hague School, c. 1860s–1890s
Heidelberg School
History painting, c. 1400s–1900s
Hoosier Group
Hudson River School, c. 1820s–1900s
Impressionism, c. 1860s–1920s
Incoherents, c. 1882-1890s
Jugendstil
Les Nabis, c. 1890s–1900s       
Les Vingt
Luminism
Lyon School
Macchiaioli c. 1850s–1900s
Mir iskusstva, founded 1898
Modernism, c. 1860s-ongoing
Naturalism
Nazarene, c. 1810s–1830
Neo-Classicism, c. 1780s–1900s
Neo-impressionism, c. 1880s–1910s
Norwegian romantic nationalism, c. 1840–1867
Norwich School, founded 1803
Orientalism
Peredvizhniki
Pointillism, c. 1880s–1910s
Pont-Aven School, c. 1850s–1890s
Post-Impressionism, c. 1880s–1900s
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Realism, c. 1850s–1900s
Romanticism, c. 1750s–1890s
Secession Groups, c. 1890s-1910s
Society of American Artists, c. 1877–1906
Spanish Eclecticism, c. 1845-1890s
Symbolism
Synthetism, c. 1877–1900s
Tonalism, c. 1880–1915
Vienna Secession, founded 1897
White Mountain art, c. 1820s–1870s   

20th century

1900-1918Academic, c. 1900s-ongoing
American realism, c. 1890s–1920s
Analytic Cubism, c. 1909–1912
Art Deco, c. 1920s–1940s
Ashcan School, c. 1890s–1920s
Berliner Sezession, founded 1898
Bloomsbury Group, c. 1900s–1960s
Camden Town Group, c. 1911–1913
Constructivism, c. 1920–1922, 1920s–1940s
Cubism, c. 1906–1919
Cubo-Futurism, c. 1912–1918
Dada, c. 1916–1922
Der Blaue Reiter, c. 1911–1914
De Stijl, c. 1917–1931
Deutscher Werkbund, founded 1907
Die Brücke, founded 1905
Early Cubism, c. 1906–1908
Expressionism c. 1890s–1930s
Fauvism, c. 1900–1910
Futurism, c. 1909–1916
German Expressionism, c. 1913–1930
Group of Seven (Canada), c. 1913–1930s       
Jack of Diamonds, founded 1909
Luminism (Impressionism), c. 1900s–1930s
Modernism, c. 1860s–ongoing
Neo-Classicism, c. 1900s–ongoing
Neue Künstlervereinigung München
Novembergruppe, founded 1918
Orphism, c. 1910–1913
Photo-Secession, founded c. 1902
Picasso's Blue Period, c. 1901–1904
Picasso's Rose Period, c. 1904–1906
Picasso's African Period, 1906–1909
Pittura Metafisica, c. 1911–1920
Purism, c. 1917–1930s
Rayonism
Section d'Or, c. 1912–1914
Suprematism, formed c. 1915–1916
Synchromism, founded 1912
Synthetic Cubism, c. 1912–1919
The Eight, c. 1909–1918
The Ten, c. 1897–1920
Vorticism, founded 1914   

1918-1945

American Scene painting, c. 1920s–1950s
Arbeitsrat für Kunst
Art Deco
Bauhaus, c. 1919–1933
Concrete art
Der Ring
De Stijl, c. 1917–1931
Ecole de Paris
Geometric abstraction
Gruppo 7
International Style, c. 1920s–1970s
Kapists, c. 1930s       
Magic Realism
Neo-Romanticism
Neue Sachlichkeit
Novecento Italiano
Novembergruppe, founded 1918
Precisionism, c. 1918–1940s
Regionalism (art), c. 1930s–1940s
Scuola Romana, c. 1928–1945
Social Realism, c. 1920s–1960s
Socialist Realism
Surrealism, c. 1920s–1960s   

1945-1965

Abstract expressionism
Action painting
Arte Povera
Art Informel
Assemblage
Beatnik art
Chicago Imagists
CoBrA
Color Field painting
Combine painting
Fluxus
Happening
Hard-Edge Painting
Kinetic Art
Kitchen Sink School
Lettrism       
Lyrical abstraction
Neo-Dada
New Brutalism
Northwest School
Nouveau Réalisme
Op Art
Organic abstraction
Outsider Art
Pop Art
Post-painterly abstraction
Public art
Retro art
Serial art
Shaped canvas
Situationist International
Tachism   

1965-2000

Abstract Illusionism
Appropriation
Arte Povera
Art Photography
Body Art
Classical Realism
Conceptual Art
Dogme 95
Earth Art
Figuration Libre
Funk art
Hyperrealism
Installation art
Internet Art
Land art
Late modernism
Light and Space       
Lowbrow
Lyrical Abstraction
Minimalism
Neo-Expressionism
Neo-pop
Performance Art
Postminimalism
Postmodernism
Photorealism
Relational art
Site-specific art
Sound Art
Steampunk
Transavanguardia
Video Art
Young British Artists   

21st century

Algorithmic art
Altermodernism
Computer art
Computer graphics
Digital art
Electronic Art
Energy Art Movement
Environmental art
Hyperrealism
IMMAGINE&POESIA
Intentism
Internet art
Intervention art       
Metamodernism
Neo-minimalism
New Media Art
Post-postmodernism
Relational art
Remodernism
SoFlo Superflat
Stuckism International
Superflat
Superstroke
Transgressive art
Virtual art

ART MOVEMENTS BY DECADE

1950s

Abstract Expressionism
American Figurative Expressionism
Bay Area Figurative Movement
Lyrical Abstraction
New York Figurative Expressionism
New York School
   

1960s

Abstract expressionism
American Figurative Expressionism
Abstract Imagists
Bay Area Figurative Movement
Color field
Computer art
Conceptual art
Fluxus
Happenings
Hard-edge painting
Lyrical Abstraction
Minimalism
Neo-Dada
New York School
Nouveau Réalisme
Op Art
Performance art
Pop Art
Postminimalism
Washington Color School
Kinetic art

1970s

Arte Povera
Ascii Art
Bad Painting
Body art
Artist's book
Feminist art
Installation art
Land Art
Lowbrow (art movement)
Photorealism
Postminimalism
Process Art
Video art
Funk art
Pattern and Decoration   

1980s

Appropriation art
Culture jamming
Demoscene
Electronic art
Figuration Libre
Graffiti Art
Live art
Mail art
Postmodern art
Neo-conceptual art
Neo-expressionism
Neo-pop
Sound art
Transgressive art
Transhumanist Art
Video installation
Institutional Critique   

1990s

Bio art
Cyberarts
Cynical Realism
Digital Art
Information art
Internet art
Massurrealism
Maximalism
New Leipzig School
New media art
New European Painting
Software art
Tactical media
Young British Artists   

2000s

Classical realism
Relational art
Street art
Stuckism
Superflat
Videogame art
Superstroke
VJ art
Virtual art
Altermodern
IMMAGINE&POESIA

LIST OF ART MOVEMENTS

A

Abstract art
Art Brut
Abstract expressionism
Abstract Illusionism
Academic art
Action painting
Aestheticism
Altermodern
American Barbizon school
American Impressionism
American realism
American Scene Painting
Analytical art       
Antipodeans
Anti-realism
Arabesque
Arbeitsrat für Kunst
Art Deco
Art Informel
Art Nouveau
Art Photography
Arte Povera
Arts and Crafts Movement
Ashcan School
Assemblage
Les Automatistes   


B

Barbizon school
Baroque
Bauhaus



C

Classical Realism
Color Field
Computer Art
Conceptual art
Constructivism
Cubism

D

Dada
Danube school
Dau-al-Set
De Stijl (also known as Neoplasticism)
Deconstructivism
Digital Art

E

Energy Art Movement
Expressionism

F

Fantastic realism
Fauvism
Figurative art
Figuration Libre
Folk art
Fluxus
Futurism

G

Geometric abstract art
Graffiti
Gutai group

H

Harlem Renaissance
Hudson River School
Humanistic Aestheticism
Hypermodernism
Hyperrealism

I

Impressionism
Institutional Critique
International Gothic
International Typographic Style

L

Les Nabis
Letterism
Lowbrow (art movement)
Lyco art
Lyrical Abstraction

M

Magic Realism
Mannerism
Massurrealism
Maximalism
Metaphysical painting
Mingei
Minimalism
Modernism
Modular constructivism

N

Naive art
Neoclassicism
Neo-Dada
Neo-expressionism
Neo-figurative
Neoism
Neo-primitivism
Net art
New Objectivity
Northwest School (art)

O

Op Art
Orphism

P

Photorealism
Pixel Art
Plein Air
Pointillism
Pop art
Post-impressionism
Postmodernism
Precisionism
Pre-Raphaelitism
Primitivism
Purism

Q

Qajar art

R

Rasquache
Realism
Remodernism
Renaissance
Rococo
Romanesque
Romanticism

S

Samikshavad
Shin hanga
Shock art
Sōsaku hanga
Socialist Realism
Space Art
Street Art
Stuckism
Suprematism
Surrealism
Symbolism (arts)
Synchromism

T

Tachisme
Toyism
Transgressive art

U

Ukiyo-e
Underground comix

V

Vorticism
Verdadism

OTHERS

Algorithmic art
Computer art
Computer graphics
Electronic Art
New Media Art
Virtual art
Pixel art
Software art
Systems art
Tradigital art
Evolutionary art
Fractal art
Generative art
Interactive art
Digital painting
Cyberarts
Found art
Interactive art
Modern art
Neo-conceptual art
Performance art
Sound art
Fauvism
Cubism
Orphism
Synchromism
Surrealism
Symbolism (arts)
Futurism
Art Deco
Dadaism
Bauhaus   
De Stijl
Social Realism
American Regionalism
Abstract Expressionism
Fluxus
Neo-Dada
Color Field painting
Pop Art    Photorealism
Minimalism
Lyrical Abstraction
Conceptual art
Neo-expressionism
Appropriation art
Installation art
Digital art