An art movement is a style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a period of time. Art in the modern era has come to be defined by its styles, schools, and movements. The major and minor collected here provide an introduction to the developments in western art together with all the participated artists.
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(style, -present) Abstract art is a style of art where there is no definite image of what the artist is[...]
(technique, -present) Art Forgery...Master Forgers Alcedo Dossena 1878-1936 Italy John Drew 1948 England Eric Hebborn 1934 - 1996 England Elmyr[...]
Art and Electronic Media
(movement, 1930's-present) Since the early 20th century artist include the new possibilities offered by electronic media to create art. Electronic[...]
Arte Povera
(movement, 1960's-1968) "Arte Povera","arme Kunst".The term ‘Arte Povera’ was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in[...]
(movement, 1946-1960's) Abstract Impressionism is a form of abstract painting in which artists use colors instead of object representations in[...]
Architecture
(technique, -present) Architectural works are perceived as cultural and political symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations are often known[...]
(movement, 1880's-1905) Art Nouveau also known as Jugendstil is an international of art, applied art and architecture that is specifically[...]
(style, 1940's-early 1960s) Action painting is a style or type of painting that does not follow a certain pattern or[...]
Art Informel
(movement, early 1940's-1950's) "Un Art autre" (Art of Another Kind) Art Informel (or Tachism, or Lyrical Abstraction) tends toward the[...]
(movement, 1880-1910) The Arts and Crafts Movement was established between 1880 and 1910. It first developed in the British Isles,[...]
Assemblage
(style, -present) Assemblage is basically the three-dimensional cousin of collage. The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can[...]
BEAP electronic art
(exhibition, -present) BEAP: The Biennale of Electronic Arts (BEAP) is a new media arts festival held every two years in[...]
Blaue Reiter
(movement, 1911-1914) German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1911 to 1914. It took its name from a painting by Kandinsky,[...]
BMPT group
(movement, 1967-present) Paris-based BMPT (Buren, Mosset, Parmentier and Toroni) group of painters in the mid-1960s. The group brought forth questions[...]
Many people associate Celtic art with the intricate scrollwork of interlace tattoos and throwback artwork with little or no symmetry[...]
Constructivism
(movement, 1919-1934) Constructivism is an art movement which originated in Russia in the 1920’s. It rejected art as an autonomous[...]
Camden Town Group
(movement, 1911-1913) British Post-Impressionist group founded by Sickert in London in 1911. Other members were Bevan, Gore, Gilman, Ginner. Painted[...]
Concrete Art
(style, 1930's-present) Theo van Doesburg: "A work of art does not derive from nature but is an autonomous reality composed[...]
(style, 1960's-present) Conceptual Art is a type of modern art based on ideas or concepts and not the actual or[...]
Documenta Kassel
(exhibition, 1955-present) The Documenta, “Museum of 100 Days”, started in 1955 and takes place every five years (since 1972). The[...]
Digital Art
(technique, -present) Digital art most commonly refers to art created on a computer in digital form. In an expanded sense,[...]
Der Kaiserring
(prize, since 1975-present) Goslarer Kaiserring. Goslar was nominated to be part of the World Cultural Heritage because of its rich[...]
die Brucke
(movement, 1905-1913) (German, "The Bridge"), group of German expressionist artists, founded in Dresden in 1905, whose work marked the beginning[...]
Existential Art
(style, 1950's-present) Although there is no truly self-professed movement calling itself this, existentialism naturally influenced numerous mid-century artists agreeing with[...]
Ecole de Paris
(movement, 1905-1939) School of Paris; France, ca. 1910 During the first decade of the 20th century, numerous painters and sculptors[...]
(style, 1905-present) Expressionism is the art of the emotive. It is a type of art provoked by the consciousness of[...]
Figuration-Libre-Graffiti
(movement, 1980's-1985) Figuration Libre, Graffiti. Figurative art, a product of mass culture and media. Spontaneous creativeness, reference to comic strips,[...]
Paula Scher is a graphic artist from America, who is often described as the "master conjurer of the instantly familiar"[...]
Geometric Abstraction
(movement, 1914-present) Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not[...]
Greater New York
(exhibition, -present) quintennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives[...]
Group of Seven
(movement, 1920-present) Around 1912 a loosely knit group of artists began to paint Canada as they saw it. Sketch boxes[...]
Helsinki School
(movement, 1871-present) The concept of “The Helsinki School” is not defined by a specific discipline (but mainly photography), nationality or[...]
Homme-Temoin
(movement, 1948-present) Homme-Temoin (Man as Witness). "A group of French artists who were united in their promotion of expressive Social[...]
(technique, 1970's-present) Installation is one of the most popular and widespread forms of contemporary art. Some critics and artists say[...]
Impressionism (or in French, “Impressionisme”) was a major art movement that started in France during the 19th century. It first[...]
Jugendstil
(style, 1880-1905) The Art Nouveau began in London and is also known as Jugendstil in Austria and Germany, as Modernismo[...]
(style, 1961-present) Ever wondered why there are paintings and pictures that look like they are moving? These types of paintings[...]
Kitchen Sink
(movement, 1954-early 1960's) The Kitchen Sink School, a term coined in 1954, referred to a group of British painters popular[...]
Lyrical Abstraction
(movement, 1947-present) The term was originally coined by Larry Aldrich; other sources sustain that it was Jean José Marchand and[...]
(style, 1965-present) Introduction Robert Smithson was one of the founders of the art form known as earthworks or land art,[...]
Moscow Conceptualism
(movement, 1970-1980's) Early 1970s -1980s. Moscow Conceptualism emancipated art from the social realist tradition which for so long had been[...]
(style, 1920's-1950's) Magic Realism is an artistic style applied to various types of arts such as literature, painting, film, and[...]
Minimal Art
(style, 1960's-1970's) Painting and sculpture are reduced to the essential by the use of elementary and geometrical forms "Primary Structures",[...]
Mural Art – Muralism
(technique, -present) The post-revolutionary Mexico of 1920’s stood on the threshold of a new era of relative political stability. Under[...]
Metaphysical Painting
(movement, 1917-1920) Pittura Metafisica was founded in 1917 by Carlo Carrà (Italian, 1881-1966) and Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978), who[...]
Neoclassical art is a particularly orderly, unemotional, and severe form of art that emerged sometime around 1760. There is an[...]
New Leipzig School
(movement, 1990-present) When the painters who are now the young lions of the international art scene enrolled at the venerable[...]
Neo-Conceptualism
(style, late 1970's-present) Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Cindy[...]
Neue Wilden
(movement, 1977-early 1980's) Neue Wilde, Mülheimer Freiheit Bezeichnung fur eine seit 1977 aufgekommen Stilrichtung in der deutschen Malerei, die der[...]
Novembergruppe
(movement, 1918-1920's) The Novembergruppe, named after the German Weimar Revolution in 1918, was formed in Berlin on 3 December 1918.[...]
Neo-Expressionism
(movement, late 1970's-1980's) Style of modern painting in which the artist handles the materials in a rough and raw way,[...]
(movement, 1917-present) Neo Plasticism is a Dutch artistic movement founded in Amsterdam in 1917. Also referred to as De Stijl,[...]
Nuovi Nuovi
(movement, 1970's-present) The Nuovi-Nuovi concentrated on theoretical and formal elements appropriated from the past and based on the notion of[...]
Neue Sachlichkeit
(movement, 1923-present) New Objectivity From the exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit held in Mannheim in 1923.Two major trends were identified under Neue[...]
New Image Painting
(style, late 1970's-present) New Image Painting is also referred to as New Image Art. It is a vague term made[...]
Op Art Optical Art
(movement, mid 1960's-present) Movement that developed in the United States and Europe in the mid-1960s. Deriving from the abstract expressionist[...]
(style, 1940's-present) Introduction Abstraction Art is used interchangeably with Abstract Art as they are very synonymous with each other. Organic[...]
Photography
(technique, -present) Artists are always attempting to fix an image onto a surface. Photography is one of the more permanent[...]
(style, late 1960's-1970's) Introduction Photo-Realism or photorealism - Realist paintings and sculptures involving thorough reproduction of detail. In painting the[...]
Postminimalism
(movement, 1965-1975) Postminimalism, in the narrow sense, means the art by the generation next to minimalist artists, such as Eva[...]
Photography – Documentary
(style, -present) When is a photographic image real? Is photography able to represent reality and to depict it in an[...]
Pointilism
(technique, 1880's-present) Paintings in dots and small strokes. A method of painting developed by the neo-impressionists in France in the[...]
Printmakers
(technique, 19th century-present) Introduction Fine art printmaking is based on the concept of creating a master plate, known as the[...]
(technique, late 1950's-present) Performance Arts is a type of art form that requires an audience. The artist could do the[...]
Post Painterly Abstraction
(style, 1940's-1950's)Post Painterly Abstraction, or Colour-field/Colorfield Painting. Phrase first used by the critic Clement Greenberg to distinguish the abstract painting[...]
Post Impressionism
(movement, 1880-1890's) Term coined by Roger Fry, referring to the work of some late 19th-Century painters who, although they developed[...]
(movement, 1970's-present) Introduction Movement in architecture, design and the arts that rejected the preoccupation of post-war modernism with purity of[...]
Towards the end of the 18th century and the start of the 19th, a new era for the arts was[...]
Ready Made Art
(technique, 1913-present)Found Art, Ready Made Art, Objet Trouvé Readymade is the term used by the French artist Marcel Duchamp to[...]
red-blue group
(movement, 1920-1926) Red-blue or red-blue group was called a Basel art association in the 1920s, which stood close to expressionism.[...]
Relational art
(movement, 2002-present) Relational Art is an emerging movement in art identified by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French philosopher, who recognized a[...]
(style, -present) Graffiti or "Street Art" has been a significant art form for more than 20 years, altering and shaping[...]
Stencil Graffiti
(technique, 1968-present) Stencil graffiti is growing in popularity worldwide. This street art can be a few simple words, or a[...]
(style, 1970's-present) Introduction Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location[...]
Sculpture Objects
(technique, -present) Sculpture is an object made traditionally from stone, clay or wood. Sculptures were made to memorialize kings and[...]
Surrealism
(movement, early 1920's-1930's) Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful. anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only[...]
Suprematism
(movement, 1913-1935) Russian abstract art movement founded in St Petersburg in 1915 by Kasimir Malevich. Suprematist paintings used only a[...]
Situationism International
(movement, 1957-1972) The Situationist International (SI)(1957-1972) was an international but Paris-based formation which recreated the avant garde tradition on a[...]
Soviet Nonconformism
(movement, 1956-1986) Soviet dissident art from the historical Cold War period (1956-1986)—from Khruschev’s cultural "thaw" to Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika.[...]
Traditional Aboriginal Art
(style, -present) Aboriginal paintings are the oldest living art tradition in the world and yet represents one of the most[...]
Transavantgarde
(movement, 1980's-present) Italian critic, Bonito Achille Oliva, coined this term for art-making that rejected the tenents of conceptual art and[...]
Valori Plastici
(movement, 1918-1921) Valori Plastici (plastic values) founded in 1918 by Mario Broglio. Recovering of the pictural values used in the[...]
