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Art Movements

83 movements across history — from Gothic altarpieces to Abstract Expressionism. Tap any to explore its story, key characteristics, and defining works.

Byzantine art 330s-1453s Arte Povera 400s-275s RA Romanesque art 1000s-1200s GA Gothic art 1100s-1500s Arts and Crafts movement 1320s-1384s Renaissance 1400s-1600s Northern Renaissance 1430s-1580s Der Blaue Reiter 1440s-1491s High Renaissance 1490s-1530s Mannerism 1520s-1600s Academic art 1550s-1920s Mughal painting 1550s-1800s Baroque 1600s-1750s Ukiyo-e 1600s-1900s Dutch Golden Age painting 1615s-1702s Rococo 1720s-1780s Classicism 1750s-1850s Neoclassicism 1750s-1850s Romanticism 1780s-1850s Historicism 1800s-1910s Nihonga 1809s-1850s HR Hudson River School 1820s-1875s Barbizon school 1830s-1870s Realism 1840s-1870s Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1848s-1900s Naturalism 1860s-1900s Impressionism 1870s-1900s Divisionism 1275s-1318s Symbolism 1880s-1910s Tonalism 1880s-1910s Neo-Impressionism 1886s-1910s Pointillism 1886s-1895s Post-Impressionism 1886s-1905s Hard-edge painting 1889s-1949s Art Nouveau 1890s-1910s Jugendstil 1895s-1910s Vienna Secession 1897s-1914s Abstract art 1900s-present Expressionism 1900s-1940s Op Art 1900s-present Performance art 1900s-present Fauvism 1904s-1908s Die Brucke 1905s-1913s Cubism 1907s-1919s Futurism 1909s-1945s Art Deco 1910s-1940s Orphism 1912s-1920s Constructivism 1913s-1930s Precisionism 1915s-1940s Suprematism 1915s-1930s Dadaism 1916s-1924s Bauhaus 1919s-1933s Harlem Renaissance 1920s-1940s Kinetic art 1920s-present Mexican muralism 1920s-1970s Neue Sachlichkeit 1920s-1930s Social Realism 1920s-1960s De Stijl 1921s-2004s Surrealism 1924s-1950s Action painting 1940s-1960s Magic Realism 1940s-present Tachisme 1940s-1960s Aestheticism 1945s-present Art Brut 1945s-present Abstract Expressionism 1946s-1960s CoBrA 1948s-1951s Installation art 1950s-present Neo-Dada 1950s-2023s Postmodernism 1950s-present Pop Art 1955s-1975s Conceptual art 1960s-present Feminist art 1960s-present Fluxus 1960s-1978s Graffiti art 1960s-present Land art 1960s-present Minimalism 1960s-1980s Street art 1960s-present P Photorealism 1968s-1980s Video art 1968s-present Color Field painting 1971s-present Vorticism 1976s-present Neo-Expressionism 1994s-present CI Chinese ink wash painting 2000s-present

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