An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Art movements were especially important in

modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

movement. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality ( figurative art). By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new style which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy ( abstract art).

Concept

According to theories associated with

modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, ...

and the concept of postmodernism, ''art movements'' are especially important during the period of time corresponding to

. The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed approximately halfway through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic co ...

. Postmodernism in visual art begins and functions as a parallel to late modernism and refers to that period after the "modern" period called contemporary art.''The Citadel of Modernism Falls to Deconstructionists'', – 1992 critical essay, ''The Triumph of Modernism'', 2006, Hilton Kramer, pp 218–221. The postmodern period began during late modernism (which is a contemporary continuation of modernism), and according to some theorists postmodernism ended in the 21st century.''Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture'' Charles JencksWilliam R. Everdell, ''The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-century Thought'', University of Chicago Press, 1997, p4. During the period of time corresponding to "modern art" each consecutive movement was often considered a new

. Also during the period of time referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the visual arts. Generally there was a commonality of visual style linking the works and artists included in an art movement. Verbal expression and explanation of movements has come from the artists themselves, sometimes in the form of an art manifesto,"Poetry of the Revolution. Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes" introduction, Martin Puchner
Retrieved April 4, 2006 and sometimes from art critics and others who may explain their understanding of the meaning of the new art then being produced. In the

visual arts The visual arts are Art#Forms, genres, media, and styles, art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as ...

, many artists, theorists, art critics, art collectors, art dealers and others mindful of the unbroken continuation of modernism and the continuation of modern art even into the contemporary era, ascribe to and welcome new philosophies of art as they appear. Postmodernist theorists posit that the idea of art movements are no longer as applicable, or no longer as discernible, as the notion of art movements had been before the postmodern era. There are many theorists however who doubt as to whether or not such an era was actually a fact; or just a passing fad. The term refers to tendencies in

visual art The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile ar ...

, novel ideas and

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

, and sometimes

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to inclu ...

. In

music Music is generally defined as the The arts, art of arranging sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Exact definition of music, definitions of mu ...

it is more common to speak about

genre Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other ...

s and styles instead. See also cultural movement, a term with a broader connotation. As the names of many art movements use the -ism suffix (for example cubism and futurism), they are sometimes referred to as ''isms''.

19th century

File:Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon (1805-1807).jpg, Jacques-Louis David, '' The Coronation of Napoleon'', (1806),

Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

, Neoclassicism File:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg,

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British ...

, '' Liberty Leading the People'' 1830,

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

File:Cole Thomas The Course of Empire The Savage State 1836.jpg, Thomas Cole, '' The Course of Empire: The Savage State'', 1836, Hudson River School File:Gustave Courbet 018.jpg,

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

, ''Stone-Breakers'', 1849, Realist School File:corot.villedavray.750pix.jpg,

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his va ...

, c. 1867, '' Ville d'Avray''

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of ch ...

, Washington, D.C.,

Barbizon School The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its nam ...

National Gallery of Art
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Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

, '' Haystacks, (sunset)'', 1890–1891, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passa ...

File:Van Gogh - Starry Night - Google Art Project.jpg, Vincent van Gogh, '' The Starry Night,'' 1889,

Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...

File:The Scream.jpg,

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, '' The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the d ...

, '' The Scream'', early example of Expressionism *

Academic An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, f ...

, c. 16th century–20th century * Aesthetic Movement * American Barbizon school * American Impressionism *

Amsterdam Impressionism Amsterdam Impressionism was an art movement in late 19th-century Holland. It is associated especially with George Hendrik Breitner and is also known as the ''School of Allebé''. The innovative ideas about painting of the French Impressionist ...

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Moder ...

, c. 1890–1910 * Arts and Crafts Movement, founded 1860s *

Barbizon school The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its nam ...

, c. 1830s–1870s * Biedermeier, c. 1815–1848 * Cloisonnism, c. 1888–1900s (decade) * Danish Golden Age c. 1800s-1850s * Decadent movement * Divisionism, c. 1880s–1910s * Düsseldorf School * Etching revival * Expressionism, c. 1890s–1930s * German Romanticism, c. 1790s–1850s * Gründerzeit * Hague School, c. 1860s–1890s * Heidelberg School, c. 1880s–1900s (decade) * Hoosier Group * Hudson River School, c. 1820s–1900s (decade) *

Hurufiyya movement The Hurufiyya movement ( ar, حروفية ''ḥurufiyyah'', adjectival form ''ḥurufī'', 'letters' (of the alphabet)) is an aesthetic movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century amongst Muslim artists, who used their under ...

mid-20th-century in North Africa and the Middle East *

, c. 1860s–1920s * Incoherents, c. 1882-1890s * Jugendstil * Les Nabis, c. 1890s–1900s (decade) * Les Vingt * Letras y figuras, c. 1845-1900s * Luminism * Lyon School * Macchiaioli c. 1850s–1900s (decade) * Mir iskusstva, founded 1898 *

Modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, ...

, c. 1860s-ongoing * Naturalism * Nazarene, c. 1810s–1830 * Neo-Classicism, c. 1780s–1900s (decade) *

Neo-impressionism Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, '' A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', marked the beg ...

, c. 1880s–1910s * Norwegian romantic nationalism, c. 1840–1867 * Norwich School, founded 1803 * Orientalism * Peredvizhniki * Pointillism, c. 1880s–1910s *

Pont-Aven School Pont-Aven School (french: École de Pont-Aven, br, Skol Pont Aven) encompasses works of art influenced by the Breton town of Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term applied to works created in the artists' colony at Pont-Aven, which ...

, c. 1850s–1890s *

, c. 1880s–1900s (decade) * Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood * Realism, c. 1850s–1900s (decade) * Realism, c. 1850s–1900s (decade) *

, 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 (decade) * Tipos del País *

Tonalism Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often dominat ...

, c. 1880–1915 * Vienna Secession, founded 1897 * Volcano School * White Mountain art, c. 1820s–1870s * Spiritualist art, c. 1870–

20th century

1900–1921

File:Wassily Kandinsky, 1903, The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), oil on canvas, 52.1 x 54.6 cm, Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich.jpg, Wassily Kandinsky, 1903, '' Der Blaue Reiter'' painting, '' Der Blaue Reiter'' File:Family of Saltimbanques.JPG,

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is ...

, '' Family of Saltimbanques,'' 1905, Picasso's Rose Period File:Matisse-Open-Window.jpg,

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...

, ''

The Open Window Open Window may refer to: * ''Open Window'' (album), a 2004 album by Robert Rich * ''Open Window'' (film), a 2006 American film written and directed by Mia Goldman * ''The Open Window'' (Matisse), a 1905 painting by Henri Matisse * ''The Open ...

'', 1905,

Fauvism Fauvism /ˈfoʊvɪzm̩/ is the style of ''les Fauves'' (French language, French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Representation (arts), repr ...

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, ''

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' (''The Young Ladies of Avignon'', originally titled ''The Brothel of Avignon'') is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum o ...

'', 1907, Proto-Cubism File:Violin and Candlestick.jpg, Georges Braque 1910, Analytic Cubism File:Supremus 55 (Malevich, 1916).jpg, Kazimir Malevich, ''(Supremus No. 58)'', Museum of Art, 1916, Suprematism File:Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Fountain, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz.jpg, Marcel Duchamp, ''

Fountain A fountain, from the Latin "fons" (genitive "fontis"), meaning source or spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect. Fountains were or ...

,'' 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz,

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...

File:Albert Gleizes, 1920, Femme au gant noir (Woman with Black Glove), oil on canvas, 126 x 100 cm. Private collection.jpg, Albert Gleizes, '' Woman with Black Glove'', 1920, Crystal Cubism File:Tableau I, by Piet Mondriaan.jpg, Piet Mondrian, ''Tableau I'', 1921, De Stijl *

, c. 1900s (decade)-ongoing * American realism, c. 1890s–1920s * Analytic Cubism, c. 1909–1912 *

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...

, c. 1910–1939 * Ashcan School, c. 1890s–1920s * Australian tonalism, c. 1910s–1930s * Berliner Sezession, founded 1898 * Bloomsbury Group, c. 1900s (decade)–1960s * Brandywine School * Camden Town Group, c. 1911–1913 * Constructivism, c. 1920–1922, 1920s–1940s * Cubism, c. 1906–1919 * Cubo-Futurism, c. 1912–1918 *

Czech Cubism Czech Cubism (referred to more generally as Cubo-Expressionism) was an avant-garde art movement of Czechs, Czech proponents of Cubism, active mostly in Prague from 1912 to 1914. Prague was perhaps the most important center for Cubism outside Pari ...

, c. 1910–1914 *

, c. 1916–1922 * Der Blaue Reiter, c. 1911–1914 * De Stijl, c. 1917–1931 *

Deutscher Werkbund The Deutscher Werkbund (English: "German Association of Craftsmen"; ) is a German association of artists, architects, designers and industrialists established in 1907. The Werkbund became an important element in the development of modern arch ...

, founded 1907 * Die Brücke, founded 1905 * Expressionism c. 1890s–1930s *

, 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 (decade)–1930s *

, c. 1860s–ongoing * Neo-Classicism, c. 1900s (decade)–ongoing *

Neo-primitivism Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate a "primitive" experience. It is also defined as a philosophical doctrine that considers "primitive" peoples as nobler than civilized peoples and was an o ...

, from 1913 * Neue Künstlervereinigung München * Novembergruppe, founded 1918 * Objective Abstraction, c. 1933–1936 * Orphism, c. 1910–1913 * Photo-Secession, founded c. 1902 *

Pittura Metafisica Metaphysical painting ( it, pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contras ...

, c. 1911–1920 * Proto-Cubism, c. 1906–1908 * Purism, c. 1917–1930s * Rayonism * Section d'Or, c. 1912–1914 * Suprematism, formed c. 1915–1916 * Synchromism, founded 1912 *

Synthetic Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...

, c. 1912–1919 * The Eight, c. 1909–1918 * The Ten, c. 1897–1920 * Vorticism, founded 1914

1920–1945

File:Theo van Doesburg Composition XX.jpg, Theo van Doesburg, ''Composition XX'', 1920, De Stijl File:The Elephant Celebes.jpg, Max Ernst, '' The Elephant Celebes'', 1921,

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

Surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

File:NY Met demuth figure 5 gold.JPG, Charles Demuth, '' I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold'', 1928,

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 100 ...

, Precisionism File:Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project.jpg, Grant Wood, '' American Gothic'', 1930,

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mil ...

Social Realism Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structure ...

* American Scene painting, c. 1920s–1950s * Arbeitsrat für Kunst *

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2 ...

, c. 1919–1933 * Concrete art * Der Ring * De Stijl, c. 1917–1931 * Ecole de Paris *

Geometric abstraction Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was pop ...

* Gruppo 7 *

International Style International style may refer to: * International Style (architecture), the early 20th century modern movement in architecture *International style (art), the International Gothic style in medieval art *International Style (dancing), a term used in ...

, c. 1920s–1970s * Kapists, c. 1930s * Magic Realism * Neo-Romanticism *

Neue Sachlichkeit The New Objectivity (in german: Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the ''Kunsthalle'' in Mannheim, w ...

* Novecento Italiano * Novembergruppe, founded 1918 * Precisionism, c. 1918–1940s * Regionalism (art), c. 1930s–1940s * Return to order, 1918–1922 * Scuola Romana, c. 1928–1945 *

, c. 1920s–1960s *

Socialist Realism Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is ch ...

, c. 1920s–1960s * Universal Constructivism, c. 1930–1970

1940–1965

* Abstract expressionism *

Action painting Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical a ...

* Arte Povera * Art Informel * Assemblage * Beatnik art * Chicago Imagists * CoBrA, c. 1948–1951 * Color Field painting * Combine painting * De-collage * Fluxus * Happening * Hard-Edge Painting * Kinetic Art *

Kitchen Sink School Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" w ...

* Lettrism * Lyrical abstraction * Neo-Dada * New Brutalism * Northwest School * Nouveau Réalisme * Op Art * Organic abstraction * Outsider Art * Panic Movement * Pop Art * Post-painterly abstraction * Process art *

Public art Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically acce ...

Retro art Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from history, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes. In popular culture, the " nostalgia cycle" is typically for the two decades that begin 20–30 ...

Serial art Serial may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media The presentation of works in sequential segments * Serial (literature), serialised literature in print * Serial (publishing), periodical publications and newspapers * Serial (radio and televisi ...

* Shaped canvas * Situationist International * Tachism * Video art

1965–2000

File:Art & Language, Untitled Painting (1965), Tate Modern, London - 20130627.jpg, Art & Language, ''Untitled Painting'' (1965),

Conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called inst ...

File:Art-LanguageV3No1-1974.jpg, Art & Language, '' Art-Language Vol.3 No.1'' (1974),

Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art The Château de Montsoreau-Museum Contemporary Art is a private museum open to the public in Montsoreau, France. It opened 8 April 2016. The permanent collection exhibited at Château de Montsoreau consists of Philippe Méaille's collection of w ...

File:She Who Must Be Obeyed tony smith007.JPG, Tony Smith, ''She Who Must Be Obeyed'', 1975, Tony Smith Department of Labour Building, Minimalism File:Unititled (Corner Piece) by Dan Flavin, Tate Liverpool.jpg, Dan Flavin, ''Untitled (Corner Piece),'' 1930,

Tate Liverpool Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corpo ...

Installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often calle ...

* Abstract Illusionism * Appropriation * Arte Povera * Art Photography * Body Art * Classical Realism *

Conceptual Art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called inst ...

* Dogme 95 * Earth Art * Figuration Libre * Funk art *

Graffiti art Graffiti (plural; singular ''graffiti'' or ''graffito'', the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from s ...

* Hyperrealism *

* Internet Art * Land art * Late modernism * Light and Space * Lowbrow * Lyrical Abstraction * Mail art * Massurrealism * Maximalism * Minimalism * Neo-Expressionism * Neo-figurative * Neo-pop *

Performance Art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

* Postminimalism * Postmodernism *

Photorealism Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another Medium (arts), medium. Although ...

* Psychedelic art * Relational art * Site-specific art * Sound Art * Transavanguardia * Young British Artists

21st century

Algorithmic art Algorithmic art or algorithm art is art, mostly visual art, in which the design is generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called ''algorists''. Overview Algorithmic art, also known as computer-generated art, is a subset o ...

* Altermodernism *

Biomorphism Biomorphism models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. Taken to its extreme it attempts to force naturally occurring shapes onto functional devices. History Within the c ...

* Computer art *

Computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal ...

* Craftivism * Digital art * Electronic Art * Empathism * Environmental art * Excessivism *Intentism * Internet art *

Intervention art Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation. It has the auspice of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with the Viennese Actionists, the Dada mov ...

Metamodernism Metamodernism is a term that refers to a range of developments observed in many areas of art, culture and philosophy, emerging in the aftermath of postmodernism, roughly at the turn of the 21st century. To many, it is characterized as mediations bet ...

Modern European ink painting Modern European ink painting (sometimes called the "New Ink Movement" or the "New Ink Art") is an emerging style that reaches beyond traditional Asian ink painting in scope and treatment of a minimalist-art. Contemporary ink painting is developing ...

* Neo-minimalism * New Media Art * Pixel art * Post-postmodernism * Relational art * Remodernism * Social practice (art) * SoFlo Superflat * Stuckism International * Superflat *

Superstroke Superstroke is a term used for a contemporary art movement with its origins in South Africa. Superstroke is one of the influential art movements regarding African modernism and abstraction. The word "Superstroke" implies the super expressive brush ...

* Transgressive art * Toyism * Unilalianism * Vaporwave *

Postinternet upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the phys ...

References

External links

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Art movements since 1900.

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