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See Art periods for a chronological list. This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in ...
t. e. 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, when each ...
Cubism. Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Surrealism is an 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 scenes and ideas. [ 1] Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously ...
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
Realism (art movement) Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. [ 1] Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic ...
Fauvism (/ f oʊ v ɪ z əm /) is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the style of les Fauves ( French for the wild beasts ), a group of modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by ...
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [ 1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [ 2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the ...