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 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 Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract a ...

). 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 Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...

Concept

According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of

postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or Rhetorical modes, mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by philosophical skepticism, skepticis ...

, ''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.

Postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or Rhetorical modes, mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by philosophical skepticism, skepticis ...

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 avant-garde. 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 critic An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...

s and others who may explain their understanding of the meaning of the new art then being produced. In the visual arts, 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, novel ideas and architecture, and sometimes literature. In music it is more common to speak about genres 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 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 ...

and

futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such ...

), they are sometimes referred to as ''isms''.

19th century

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

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

, '' The Coronation of Napoleon'', (1806), Musée du Louvre,

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...

File:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg, Eugène Delacroix, '' Liberty Leading the People'' 1830, Romanticism 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, ''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 vast ...

, 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 char ...

, Washington, D.C., Barbizon SchoolNational Gallery of Art
/ref> File:Claude Monet - Graystaks I.JPG, Claude Monet, '' Haystacks, (sunset)'', 1890–1891,

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

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

, '' The Scream'', early example of

Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

* Academic, c. 16th century–20th century *

Aesthetic Movement Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century which privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be prod ...

American Barbizon school The American Barbizon School was a group of painters and style partly influenced by the French Barbizon school, who were noted for their simple, pastoral scenes painted directly from nature. American Barbizon artists concentrated on painting rur ...

* American Impressionism * Amsterdam Impressionism *

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 Modern ...

, c. 1890–1910 * Arts and Crafts Movement, founded 1860s * Barbizon school, c. 1830s–1870s *

Biedermeier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...

, c. 1815–1848 * Cloisonnism, c. 1888–1900s (decade) * Danish Golden Age c. 1800s-1850s * Decadent movement *

Divisionism Divisionism, also called chromoluminarism, was the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically..Homer, William I. ''Seurat and the Science of P ...

, c. 1880s–1910s * Düsseldorf School * Etching revival *

, 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 mid-20th-century in North Africa and the Middle East * Impressionism, c. 1860s–1920s * Incoherents, c. 1882-1890s * Jugendstil *

Les Nabis Les Nabis (French: les nabis, ) were a group of young French artists active in Paris from 1888 until 1900, who played a large part in the transition from impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of m ...

, 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, c. 1860s-ongoing * Naturalism * Nazarene, c. 1810s–1830 * Neo-Classicism, c. 1780s–1900s (decade) * Neo-impressionism, c. 1880s–1910s * Norwegian romantic nationalism, c. 1840–1867 * Norwich School, founded 1803 *

Orientalism In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...

* Peredvizhniki *

Pointillism Pointillism (, ) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" wa ...

, c. 1880s–1910s * Pont-Aven School, c. 1850s–1890s * Post-Impressionism, c. 1880s–1900s (decade) *

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...

* Realism, c. 1850s–1900s (decade) * Realism, c. 1850s–1900s (decade) * Romanticism, c. 1750s–1890s * Secession groups, c. 1890s–1910s * Society of American Artists, c. 1877–1906 *

Spanish Eclecticism {{Short description, Movement among Spanish painters from 1845-1890 Spanish Eclecticism was a movement among Spain, Spanish painters from 1845 to 1890. It was named after the tendency by artists to select from among multiple established styles of t ...

, c. 1845-1890s * Symbolism * Synthetism, c. 1877–1900s (decade) *

Tipos del País {{Short description, Style of watercolor painting in the Philippines ''Tipos del País'', literally meaning Types of the Country, is a style of watercolor painting that shows the different types of inhabitants in the Philippines in their different ...

* Tonalism, 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, ''

Family of Saltimbanques ''Family of Saltimbanques'' (French: ') is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. The work depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. It is considered the masterpiece of Picasso's Rose Peri ...

,'' 1905,

Picasso's Rose Period Picasso's Rose Period represents an important epoch in the life and work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso which had a great impact on the developments of modern art. It began in 1904 at a time when Picasso settled in Montmartre at the Bateau-La ...

File:Matisse-Open-Window.jpg, Henri Matisse, ''

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 ...

File:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.jpg, Pablo Picasso, '' Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'', 1907, Proto-Cubism File:Violin and Candlestick.jpg,

Georges Braque Georges Braque ( , ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculpture, sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his all ...

1910, Analytic Cubism File:Supremus 55 (Malevich, 1916).jpg,

Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; german: Kasimir Malewitsch; pl, Kazimierz Malewicz; russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич ; uk, Казимир Северинович Малевич, translit=Kazymyr Severynovych ...

, ''(Supremus No. 58)'', Museum of Art, 1916, Suprematism File:Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Fountain, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz.jpg, Marcel Duchamp, '' Fountain,'' 1917, photograph by

Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was kno ...

, Dada 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 Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being ...

, ''Tableau I'', 1921, De Stijl * Academic, c. 1900s (decade)-ongoing * American realism, c. 1890s–1920s * Analytic Cubism, c. 1909–1912 * Art Deco, c. 1910–1939 * Ashcan School, c. 1890s–1920s * Australian tonalism, c. 1910s–1930s * Berliner Sezession, founded 1898 *

Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strac ...

, c. 1900s (decade)–1960s * Brandywine School * Camden Town Group, c. 1911–1913 * Constructivism, c. 1920–1922, 1920s–1940s *

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. 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 * Dada, c. 1916–1922 * Der Blaue Reiter, c. 1911–1914 * De Stijl, c. 1917–1931 * Deutscher Werkbund, founded 1907 * Die Brücke, founded 1905 *

c. 1890s–1930s *

, c. 1900–1910 *

Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such ...

, 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 * Modernism, c. 1860s–ongoing * Neo-Classicism, c. 1900s (decade)–ongoing * Neo-primitivism, from 1913 *

Neue Künstlervereinigung München The Neue Künstlervereinigung München (N.K.V.M.), ("New Artists' Association Munich") was an Expressionism art group based in Munich. The registered association was formed in 1909 and prefigured ''Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), the first ...

Novembergruppe The November Group (german: Novembergruppe) was a group of German expressionist artists and architects. Formed on 3 December 1918, they took their name from the month of the German Revolution. The group was led by Max Pechstein and César Klein ...

, 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 contra ...

, 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 Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by American artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) and Morgan Russell (1886–1953). Their abstract "synchromies," based on an approach to painting that analogized color to music, were amon ...

, 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,

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 l ...

File:NY Met demuth figure 5 gold.JPG, Charles Demuth, '' I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold'', 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Precisionism File:Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project.jpg,

Grant Wood Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 February 12, 1942) was an American painter and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for '' American Gothic'' (193 ...

, ''

American Gothic ''American Gothic'' is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the ''American Gothic'' House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people efancied shoul ...

'', 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 mill ...

, Social Realism *

American Scene painting American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest. It arose in the 1930s as a res ...

, 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 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 Kapists or KPists (Polish: ''Kapiści'', from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colourists, were a group of Polish painters of the 1930s who dominated the Polish artistic landscape of the epoch. Contrary to Polish ...

, c. 1930s * Magic Realism * Neo-Romanticism * Neue Sachlichkeit * Novecento Italiano *

, founded 1918 * Precisionism, c. 1918–1940s * Regionalism (art), c. 1930s–1940s * Return to order, 1918–1922 * Scuola Romana, c. 1928–1945 * Social Realism, c. 1920s–1960s * Socialist Realism *

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

1940–1965

Abstract expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

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

Happening A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related events. History Origins Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happen ...

* 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 Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the ba ...

* Northwest School * Nouveau Réalisme *

Op Art Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images ...

* Organic abstraction * Outsider Art *

Panic Movement Panic Movement (''Mouvement panique'') was an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962. Inspired by and named after the god Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud's Theat ...

* Pop Art * Post-painterly abstraction * Process art * Public art *

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 The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

* Tachism * Video art

1965–2000

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

Art & Language Art & Language is a conceptual artists' collaboration that has undergone many changes since it was created in the late 1960s. The group was founded by artists who shared a common desire to combine intellectual ideas and concerns with the creati ...

, ''Untitled Painting'' (1965), Tate, Conceptual art File:Art-LanguageV3No1-1974.jpg,

, '' Art-Language Vol.3 No.1'' (1974), Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Conceptual art File:She Who Must Be Obeyed tony smith007.JPG, Tony Smith, ''She Who Must Be Obeyed'', 1975, Tony Smith Department of Labour Building,

Minimalism In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Don ...

File:Unititled (Corner Piece) by Dan Flavin, Tate Liverpool.jpg, Dan Flavin, ''Untitled (Corner Piece),'' 1930, Tate Liverpool, Installation art * Abstract Illusionism * Appropriation * Arte Povera * Art Photography * Body Art * Classical Realism * Conceptual Art * Dogme 95 * Earth Art *

Figuration Libre Figuration Libre ("Free Figuration") is a French art movement which began in the 1980s. It is the French equivalent of Bad Painting and Neo-expressionism in America and Europe, Junge Wilde in Germany and Transvanguardia in Italy. Artists in the mo ...

* Funk art * Graffiti art *

Hyperrealism Jean Baudrillard ( , , ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as w ...

* Installation art *

Internet Art 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 ...

Land art Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & mov ...

* Late modernism * Light and Space * Lowbrow * Lyrical Abstraction * Mail art *

Massurrealism Massurrealism is a portmanteau word coined in 1992 by American artist James Seehafer, who described a trend among some postmodern artists that mix the aesthetic styles and themes of surrealism and mass media—including pop art.Adam"massurr ...

* Maximalism *

* Neo-Expressionism * Neo-figurative * Neo-pop * Performance Art *

Postminimalism Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, ''A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art'', second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. ...

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. Although the term can be ...

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

21st century

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

Internet art 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 ...

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

the-artists.org
Art movements since 1900.

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Themes index and detailed glossary of art periods. {{Art world Art history Style Visual arts