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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... more

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x Italian Renaissance Sanzio 01 Exhibition subject 1420 1600
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 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early...
x Cubism Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque      
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...
x Surrealism Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Film genre 1920  
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...
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x Contemporary art   Exhibition subject    
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...
x Impressionism Paintings by Monet Literary Genre    
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise ...
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x Romanticism John William Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott, 1888 (Tate Gallery, London) Literary School Or Movement    
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...
x Baroque Musical genre 1600  
In the arts, the Baroque (pronounced /bə'rɒk/) was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The...
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x Postminimalism        
Postminimalism is a term utilized 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...
x Neoclassicism Architectural style    
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 ...
x Rococo Watteau's commedia dell'arte player of Pierrot, ca 1718-19, traditionally identified as "Gilles" (Louvre) Exhibition subject 1730  
Roccoco is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Roccoco rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall...
x Expressionism The Scream by Edvard Munch has been described as a representation of anxiety [1]   1912  
Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, architecture and music. The term often...
x Abstract expressionism No. 5, 1948 Exhibition subject    
Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by...
x Neo-expressionism        
Neo-expressionism was a style of modern painting that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American Lyrical Abstraction it developed in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic...
x Post-Abstract Expressionism 250px-Picture_006.jpg   2006  
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
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 values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism...
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   Architectural style    
Postmodernism 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 are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used...
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x Dada Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. Edited by Tristan Tzara. Zürich, 1917 Literary School Or Movement    
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic...
x Minimalism The reconstructed Barcelona Pavilion Musical genre    
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...
x High Renaissance Sistine Chapel      
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...
x Bauhaus Restored workshop block of the Dessau Bauhaus (2003) Architectural style 1919 1938
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...
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x Modernism Liberty Leading the People Book Subject    
Modernism describes an array of cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The term covers a series of reforming movements in art, architecture, music, literature and the applied...
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x Symbolism Literary School Or Movement    
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. Symbolism was largely a reaction against Naturalism and Realism, anti-idealistic movements which attempted to capture reality in its gritty...
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      
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      
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...
x French Renaissance Sanzio 01      
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...
x Spanish Renaissance Sanzio 01      
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...
x Mannerism      
Mannerism is a period of European art which 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 continued into the seventeenth century...
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        
Cubo-Futurism was the main school of Russian Futurism which imbued Cubism developed in Russia from 1913, after Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris and exhibited his works in Moscow. The Cubo-Futurist works combine the Cubist usage of forms with...
x Metaphysical art The Disquieting Muses      
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...
x Futurism Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1910-1911) Literary School Or Movement    
Futurism was an art 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 Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its...
x Outsider Art Adolf Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910      
The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (IPA: /aʁ bʁu/; meaning "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries...
x Arts and Crafts movement Artichoke wallpaper Morris and Co J H Dearle Architectural style    
The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, 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 idealization of the...
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x Situationist