An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art 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 tradit ...

, when each consecutive movement was considered a new

avant-garde In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable ...

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 Style, or styles may refer to: Film and television * ''Style'' (2001 film), a Hindi film starring Sharman Joshi, Riya Sen, Sahil Khan and Shilpi Mudgal * ''Style'' (2002 film), a Tamil drama film * ''Style'' (2004 film), a Burmese film * '' ...

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 (visual arts), composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non- ...

Concept

According to theories associated with

modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

and also the concept of

postmodernism Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

, ''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 a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...

Postmodernism Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

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

, 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, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and texti ...

, 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 construction, constructi ...

, and sometimes

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

. In

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

it is more common to speak about

genre Genre () is any style or form 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 fo ...

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 Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, 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 as the ...

), 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 The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

neoclassicism Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiq ...

File:La Liberté guidant le peuple - Eugène Delacroix - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 129 - après restauration 2024.jpg, Eugène Delacroix, '' Liberty Leading the People'' 1830,

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjec ...

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 ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French Landscape art, landscape and Portraitist, portrait painter as well as a printmaking, printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in ...

, , '' Ville d'Avray'' National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Barbizon School File:Claude Monet - Graystaks I.JPG,

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

, '' 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 list of largest art museums, 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 painting ...

Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

File:Van Gogh - Starry Night - Google Art Project.jpg,

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks ...

, '' 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 1893 work ''The Scream'' has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inher ...

, '' 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 An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

, –20th century * Aesthetic Movement * American Barbizon school *

American Impressionism American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose ...

* Amsterdam Impressionism *

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

, –1910 * Arts and Crafts Movement, founded 1860s * Barbizon school, –1870s * Biedermeier, –1848 * Cloisonnism, –1900s (decade) *

Danish Golden Age The Danish Golden Age () covers a period of exceptional creative production in Denmark, especially during the first half of the 19th century.Kulturnet DanmarkGuide to the Danish Golden Age Although Copenhagen had suffered from fires, Battle of Co ...

-1850s *

Decadent movement The Decadent movement (from the French language, French ''décadence'', ) was a late 19th-century Art movement, artistic and literary movement, literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artif ...

* Divisionism, –1910s * Düsseldorf School * Etching revival *

, s–1930s *

German Romanticism German Romanticism () was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and criticism. Compared to English Romanticism, the German vari ...

, –1850s * * Hague School, –1890s * Heidelberg School, –1900s (decade) * Hoosier Group * Hudson River School, –1900s (decade) * Hurufiyya movement mid-20th-century in North Africa and the Middle East *

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

Modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

, -ongoing * Naturalism * Nazarene, –1830 * Neo-classicism, –1900s (decade) * Neo-impressionism, –1910s * Norwegian romantic nationalism, –1867 * Norwich School, founded 1803 *

Orientalism In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle ...

* Peredvizhniki * Pointillism, –1910s * Pont-Aven School, –1890s * Post-Impressionism, –1900s (decade) * Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood * Realism, –1900s (decade) * Realism, –1900s (decade) *

, –1890s * Secession groups, s–1910s * Society of American Artists, –1906 * Spanish Eclecticism, -1890s * Symbolism * Synthetism, –1900s (decade) * Tipos del País *

Tonalism Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when Visual art of the United States, 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 g ...

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

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 Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

, 1903, '' Der Blaue Reiter'' painting, '' Der Blaue Reiter'' File:Family of Saltimbanques.JPG,

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

, '' 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 arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

, '' The Open Window'', 1905, Fauvism File:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.jpg,

, '' Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'', 1907, Proto-Cubism File:Violin and Candlestick.jpg, Georges Braque 1910, Analytic Cubism File:Supremus 55 (Malevich, 1916).jpg,

Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (

, ''(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,

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

File:Albert Gleizes, 1920, Femme au gant noir (Woman with Black Glove), oil on canvas, 126 x 100 cm. Private collection.jpg,

Albert Gleizes Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...

, '' Woman with Black Glove'', 1920, Crystal Cubism File:Tableau I, by Piet Mondriaan.jpg,

Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (, , ), was a Dutch Painting, painter and Theory of art, art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He w ...

, ''Tableau I'', 1921,

De Stijl De Stijl (, ; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, Jacobus Oud, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren, North Holland, Laren (Piet Mo ...

, (decade)-ongoing * American realism, s–1920s * Analytic Cubism, –1912 *

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

, –1939 * Ashcan School, s–1920s * Australian tonalism, –1930s * Berliner Sezession, founded 1898 * Bloomsbury Group, (decade)–1960s * Brandywine School * Camden Town Group, –1913 * Constructivism, –1922, 1920s–1940s * Cubism, –1919 * Cubo-Futurism, –1918 * Czech Cubism, –1914 *

, –1922 * Der Blaue Reiter, –1914 *

, –1931 * Deutscher Werkbund, founded 1907 * Die Brücke, founded 1905 *

, s–1930s * Fauvism, –1910 *

Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, 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 as the ...

, –1916 * German Expressionism, –1930 * Group of Seven (Canada), –1930s * Jack of Diamonds, founded 1909 * Luminism (Impressionism), (decade)–1930s *

, –ongoing * Neo-classicism, (decade)–ongoing *

Neo-primitivism In the arts of the Western world, Primitivism is a mode of Idealization and devaluation, aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of ''the primitive'' time, place, and person, either by emulation or by re-creation. In Western ...

, from 1913 * Neue Künstlervereinigung München * Novembergruppe, founded 1918 * Objective abstraction, –1936 * Orphism, –1913 * Photo-Secession, founded * Pittura Metafisica, –1920 * Proto-Cubism, –1908 * Purism, –1930s * Rayonism * Section d'Or, –1914 * Suprematism, formed –1916 * Synchromism, founded 1912 * Synthetic Cubism, –1919 * The Eight, –1918 * The Ten, –1920 * Vorticism, founded 1914

1920–1945

File:Theo van Doesburg Composition XX.jpg, Theo van Doesburg, ''Composition XX'', 1920,

File:The Elephant Celebes.jpg,

Max Ernst Max Ernst (; 2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic trai ...

, '' The Elephant Celebes'', 1921, Tate,

Surrealism Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

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, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

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

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...

, Social Realism * American Scene painting, –1950s * Arbeitsrat für Kunst *

* Bauhaus, –1933 * Concrete art * Der Ring *

, –1931 * École de Paris * Geometric abstraction * Gruppo 7 *

International Style The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...

, –1970s * Kapists, * Magic realism * Neo-romanticism * Neue Sachlichkeit * Novecento Italiano * Novembergruppe, founded 1918 * Os renovadores, founded 1922 * Precisionism, –1940s * Regionalism (art), –1940s * Return to order, 1918–1922 * Scuola Romana, –1945 * Social Realism, –1960s * Socialist Realism *

, –1960s * Universal Constructivism, –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 ...

Arte Povera Arte Povera (; literally "poor art") was an art movement that took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in major cities throughout Italy and above all in Turin. Other cities where the movement was also important are ...

* Art Informel * Assemblage * Bay Area Figuration * Beatnik art * Chicago Imagists * CoBrA, c. 1948–1951 * Color Field painting * Combine painting * De-collage *

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental performance art, art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finishe ...

Happening A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events. History Origins Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happening" i ...

* Hard-Edge Painting * Kinetic Art * Kitchen Sink School * Lettrism *

Lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction arose from either of two related but distinct art movement, trends in Post-war Modernist painting: * European ''Abstraction Lyrique'': a movement that emerged in Paris, with the French art critic Jean José Marchand being cr ...

* Neo-Dada * New Brutalism * Northwest School * Nouveau Réalisme * Op Art * Organic abstraction *

Outsider Art Outsider art is Fine art, art made by Autodidacticism, self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the Convention (norm), conventions of the art worlds. The term ''ou ...

* Panic Movement * Pop Art * Post-painterly abstraction * Process art *

Public art Public art is art in any Media (arts), 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 phy ...

* Retro art * Serial art * 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 an English conceptual artists' collaboration that has undergone many changes since it was created around 1967. The group was founded by artists who shared a common desire to combine intellectual ideas and concerns with the cre ...

, ''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 File:Unititled (Corner Piece) by Dan Flavin, Tate Liverpool.jpg, Dan Flavin, ''Untitled (Corner Piece),'' 1930, Tate Liverpool,

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

* Abstract Illusionism * Appropriation *

* Art Photography * Body Art * Classical Realism * Conceptual Art * Dogme 95 * Earth Art * Figuration Libre * Funk art * Graffiti art *

Hyperrealism Hyperreality is a concept in post-structuralism that refers to the process of the evolution of notions of reality, leading to a cultural state of confusion between signs and symbols invented to stand in for reality, and direct perceptions of ...

* Internet Art *

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, & mo ...

* Late modernism * Light and Space * Lowbrow *

Lyrical Abstraction Lyrical abstraction arose from either of two related but distinct art movement, trends in Post-war Modernist painting: * European ''Abstraction Lyrique'': a movement that emerged in Paris, with the French art critic Jean José Marchand being cr ...

Mail art Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the mail, postal service. It developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School and ...

* Massurrealism *

Maximalism In the arts, maximalism is an Aesthetics, aesthetic characterized by excess and abundance, serving as a reaction against minimalism. The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist principle of "less is more" ...

* Minimalism *

Neo-expressionism Neo-expressionism is a style of Late modernism, late modernist or early-Postmodern art, postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called ''Transavantgarde'', ''Junge Wilde'' or ''Neue Wild ...

* 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 *

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 b ...

* Psychedelic art * Relational art * Site-specific art *

Sound Art Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary Time-based media, time-based Artistic medium, medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in Cross-genr ...

* Transavanguardia * Young British Artists

21st century

* Algorithmic art * Altermodernism * Artificial intelligence art * Biomorphism * Computer art *

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

* Craftivism * Digital art * Electronic art * Environmental art * Excessivism * Internet art * Intervention art * Metamodernism * Modern European ink painting * Neo-minimalism *

New media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robo ...

* Pixel art * Postinternet * Post-postmodernism * Relational art * Remodernism * Social practice (art) * SoFlo Superflat * Stuckism International * Superflat * Superstroke *

Transgressive art Transgressive art is art that aims to outrage or cause a reaction from the observer. The term ''transgressive'' was first used in this sense by American filmmaker Nick Zedd and his Cinema of Transgression in 1985. Zedd used it to describe his leg ...

* Toyism * Unilalianism *

Vaporwave Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s and became well-known in 2015. It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, 1970 ...

References

External links

Art Movements since 1900
at the-artists.org ()

Compiled by Dr.Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
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