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'Art period/movement' defines a classification type in the visual arts.   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 restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less... more
   
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x Italian Renaissance PalladioBramanteTempietto1570.jpg 1420 1600 Rainer Maria Latzke
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early...
Donatello
Giorgione
Titian
Raphael
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x Cubism Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque     Paul Klee
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as ...
Pablo Picasso
Alexander Bogomazov
Salvador Dalí
Alexandra Nechita
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x Surrealism Indefinite Divisibility 1920   René Magritte
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many...
Salvador Dalí
Leonor Fini
Edward Wadsworth
Max Ernst
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x Contemporary art MOCA North Miami     Stuart Semple
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their...
Christiaan Tonnis
Jack Vettriano
Adamo Macri
Taryn Simon
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x Impressionism Paintings by Monet 1860   Theodore Robinson
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude...
Francisco Oller
Frederick Carl Frieseke
Frédéric Bazille
Gustave Caillebotte
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x Romanticism Caspar David Friedrich 032 1770 1850 Eugène Delacroix
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social...
Henric Trenk
Constantin Daniel Rosenthal
Ivan Aivazovsky
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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x Baroque Baroque 1600   Caravaggio
Baroque (pronounced /bəˈroʊk/, bə-rohk) is an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Peter Paul Rubens
Artemisia Gentileschi
Rex Whistler
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x Postminimalism SBC sculpture daytime     Eva Hesse
Postminimalism is a term used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism. The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts, but can refer...
Roni Horn
Peter Young
Ronnie Landfield
Dan Christensen
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x Neoclassicism PanniniMusImagin     Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ...
Angelica Kauffmann
Anselm Feuerbach
Gheorghe Tattarescu
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
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x Rococo WatteauPierrot 1730   Jean-Antoine Watteau
Rococo (less commonly roccoco) is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing...
François Boucher
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
Francesco Zugno
Jacopo Amigoni
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x Expressionism The Scream 1912   Edvard Munch
Expressionism was a cultural movement originating in Germany at the start of the 20th-century as a reaction to positivism and other artistic movements such as naturalism and impressionism. It sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and...
Vincent van Gogh
Georges Rouault
Gabriele Münter
Max Pechstein
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x Abstract expressionism No. 5, 1948 1946   Mark Rothko
Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
Clyfford Still
Jackson Pollock
Agnes Martin
Helen Berman
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x Neo-expressionism       Joe Boudreau
Neo-expressionism was a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American Lyrical Abstraction, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting, it developed...
Norris Embry
x Post-Abstract Expressionism 250px-Picture_006.jpg 2006   Martin Hedgecoke
A rather new artistic style yet to sweep the world, Post-Abstract Expressionism was started by American painter Martin Hedgecoke.
x Modern expressionism Inside by Joseph Minton 1998      
Modern expressionism is an alternative term for Symbolism. Visual artists described as modern expressionist include the South African Gerard Sekoto, whose work in the 1940s drew on Fauvism and Post-Impressionism.
x Fauvism The Green Stripe, by Henri Matisse 1905 1907 André Derain
Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism....
Henri Matisse
Maurice de Vlaminck
Georges Braque
János Mattis-Teutsch
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x Neo-Dadaism        
A widely used term covering several different art movements which came to puplic notice mostly in the 1960s. These include Pop art, Fluxus, 'Happenings' and Junk art, all of which share a renewed interest in the work of the original Dadaists....
x Postmodernism Mönchengladbach museum detail     Justin Michael Jenkins
Postmodernism (may be abbreviated to pomo in adjective form) literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism...
Robert Rauschenberg
Rafael Trelles
José Bernal
Donray
x Dada Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. Edited by Tristan Tzara. Zürich, 1917     Marcel Janco
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and...
Tristan Tzara
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Salvador Dalí
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x Minimalism German Pavilion-aka Barcelona Pavilion     Roni Horn
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World...
Eva Hesse
Sol LeWitt
Donald Judd
Frank Stella
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x High Renaissance God2-Sistine Chapel     Giorgione
The High Renaissance, in the history of art, denotes the culmination of the art of the Italian Renaissance between 1450 and 1527. Because Pope Julius II patronized many artists during this time, the movement was centered in Rome; it had previously...
Titian
Raphael
Donato Bramante
Leonardo da Vinci
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x Bauhaus Bauhaus 1919 1938 László Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus (help·info) ("House of Building" or "Building School") is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus (help·info), a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and...
Oskar Schlemmer
Paul Klee
x Modernism Mondrian Comp10     James Ensor
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far...
Henri Matisse
Harry Baron
Beatriz Milhazes
Lasar Segall
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x Symbolism The Death of the Grave Digger     Edvard Munch
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the movement had its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan...
Gustav Klimt
Ignat Bednarik
Ştefan Luchian
Fernand Khnopff
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x Pont-Aven School Paul Gauguin 039      
Pont-Aven School (French: École de Pont-Aven) is a term occupied by works of art iconographically due to Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term was focusing works of the artists' colony emerging there since the 1850s, and some decades...
x German Renaissance Sanzio 01 1450    
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which originated with the Italian Renaissance in Italy. This was a result of German...
x Northern Renaissance Sanzio 01     Ambrosius Holbein
The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century the ideas...
Catarina van Hemessen
x French Renaissance Sanzio 01 1494 1610 Germain Pilon
French Renaissance is a recent term used to describe a cultural and artistic movement in France from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated...
Jean Goujon
Jean Fouquet
François Clouet
x Spanish Renaissance Sanzio 01 1492   Pedro Berruguete
The Spanish Renaissance refers to a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. The year 1492 is commonly accepted as the beginning of the...
Alonso Berruguete
Luis de Morales
Juan de Flandes
Alonso Sánchez Coello
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x Mannerism /wikipedia/images/commons_id/1263067     El Greco
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early...
Pontormo
Giovanni Antonio Lappoli
Carel van Mander
Hercules Seghers
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x French art Lascaux      
For practical purposes, the history of French art has been divided into a series of separate articles accessible through the template to the right. The template also gives direct access to French art category indexes, such as alphabetical lists of...
x Cubo-Futurism       Lyubov Popova
Cubo-Futurism was the main school of painting practiced by the Russian Futurists. When Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris in 1913 and exhibited his works in Moscow, the Russian Futurist painters adopted the forms of Cubism and combined them with...
x Metaphysical art The Disquieting Muses     Filippo De Pisis
Metaphysical art (Italian: Pittura metafisica) is the name of an Italian art movement, created by Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. Their dream-like paintings of squares typical of idealized Italian cities, as well as apparently casual...
Giorgio Morandi
Carlo Carrà
Giorgio de Chirico
x Futurism Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1910-1911)     Carlo Carrà
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists practiced in every medium of...
Alexander Bogomazov
David Bomberg
Mario Titi
Giacomo Balla
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x Outsider Art WolfiBandHainLarge     Nek Chand
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of...
Henry Darger
x Arts and Crafts movement Artichoke wallpaper Morris and Co J H Dearle     Henry Chapman Mercer
The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, Australian, and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic...
Edward Burne-Jones
J. J. Lankes
Arthur Frank Mathews
Maxwell Armfield
x Situationist /wikipedia/images/en_id/9446736 1957   Constant Nieuwenhuys
The Situationist International (SI) was a restricted group of international revolutionaries founded in 1957, and which had its peak in its influence on the unprecedented general wildcat strikes of May 1968 in France. With their ideas rooted in...
x COBRA 'Questioning Children', oil on canvas painting by Karel Appel, 1948, private collection     Constant Nieuwenhuys
COBRA (or CoBrA) was a European avant-garde movement active from 1949 to 1952. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A). COBRA was formed by Karel...
Karel Appel
Lucebert
Jan Nieuwenhuys
Jan Cox
x Installation art A clothed tree near a popular intersection     Gottfried Helnwein
Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art;...
x Metamorphism Metamorf fokok Winkler (1974, 1976) szerint     Octavio Ocampo
Metamorphic Art is art where an image is created out of smaller images.
x Synthetic cubism The first Synthetic Cubist work, Picasso's Still life with chair caning (1911-12)     Pablo Picasso
Synthetic Cubism was the second main branch of Cubism (the earlier being Analytic cubism) developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and others between 1912 and 1919. It was seen as the first time that collage had been made as a fine art work. The...
Juan Gris
x Analytic cubism Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque 1909   Pablo Picasso
Analytical Cubism is one of two major branches of the artistic movement of Cubism and was developed between 1909 and 1912. In contrast to Synthetic cubism, Analytic Cubists "analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on...
Georges Braque
Juan Gris
x Sturm und Drang Den yngre Goethe     Philip James de Loutherbourg
Sturm und Drang (German pronunciation: [ʃtʊʁm ʊnt dʁaŋ]) (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, storm and drive or storm and impulse) is the name of a...
Henry Fuseli
Claude Joseph Vernet
x Fluxus Fluxus Box.jpg     Joseph Beuys
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and...
Dieter Roth
Wolf Vostell
Ray Johnson
George Maciunas
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x Pop art Drowning Girl (1963). On display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1950   Andy Warhol
Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is...
Justin Michael Jenkins
Pietro Psaier
Ralf Metzenmacher
Alfred Breitman
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x Found art Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. 1917      
The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function...
x Art Deco Chrysler building- top 1920 1939 Santiago Martinez Delgado
Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts,...
Romain de Tirtoff
Tamara de Lempicka
Rene Paul Chambellan
Louis Lozowick
x Art Nouveau Gresham Palace     Lascăr Vorel
Art Nouveau (French pronunciation: [aʁ nuvo], anglicised to /ˈɑrt nuːˈvou/) is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890...
Leonardo Bistolfi
Alfons Mucha
Gustav Klimt
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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x Hellenistic Greece Ника са Самотраке - Лувр      
In the context of Ancient Greek art, architecture, and culture, Hellenistic Greece corresponds to the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC. Although the...
x Old Kingdom Stupňovitá pyramida faraona Džosera v Sakkáře      
The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high...
x Neo-impressionism /wikipedia/images/commons_id/52940     Georges-Pierre Seurat
Neo-impressionism was coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat’s greatest masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement...
Paul Signac
Anna Boch
Albert Dubois-Pillet
Alfred William Finch
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x Geometric Style Prothesis scene, from a krater by the Dipylon Master, ca. 750 BC (Louvre A 517) 901 B.C.E. 801 B.C.E.  
Geometric Art is a phase of Greek art, characterised largely by geometric motifs in Plekhov-bone-vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages, circa 900 BCE to 700 BCE. Its centre was in Athens, and it was diffused amongst...
x personal       Cameron J. Smith  
x Neo-Dada       Robert Rauschenberg
Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to the visual arts describing artwork that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork. Neo-Dada is exemplified by its use of modern materials, popular imagery, and absurdist contrast. It also...
Jasper Johns
Ray Johnson
John Chamberlain
Jim Dine
x Post-Impressionism Henri Rousseau 007     Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using...
Vincent van Gogh
Augustus John
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Gauguin
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x Conceptual art Kosuth OneAndThreeChairs     Sol LeWitt
Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone...
John Latham
Matthieu Laurette
Joseph Kosuth
Christopher Williams
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x Neo-conceptual art John LeKay. Untitled, 1991, ladder and wheelchair     Ilya Kabakov
Neo-conceptual art describes art practices in the 1980s and particularly 1990s to date that derive from the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. These subsequent initiatives have included the Moscow Conceptualists, United States neo...
Peter Halley
x Pointillism Detail from Seurat's La Parade (1889), showing the contrasting dots of paint used in pointillism     Jerry Wilkerson
Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct dots of colour create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and blending. Aside from color "mixing" phenomena, there is the simpler graphic phenomenon of depicted imagery...
Henry Villierme
x Systems art Momapoll      
Systems art is art influenced by systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself. Systems art emerged as part of the first wave of the conceptual art movement extended in the 1960s and 1970s...
x Synthetism Serusier - the talisman      
Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The...
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