Art Movements / ArtDrunk Ltd

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, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

Modern Art

1920–1945

American Scene painting, c. 1920s–1950s
Arbeitsrat für Kunst
Art Deco
Bauhaus, c. 1919–1933
Concrete art
Der Ring
De Stijl, c. 1917–1931
Ecole de Paris
Geometric abstraction
Gruppo 7
International Style, c. 1920s–1970s
Kapists, c. 1930s
Magic Realism
Neo-Romanticism
Neue Sachlichkeit
Novecento Italiano
Novembergruppe, founded 1918
Precisionism, c. 1918–1940s
Regionalism (art), c. 1930s–1940s
Return to order, 1918–1922
Scuola Romana, c. 1928–1945
Social Realism, c. 1920s–1960s
Socialist Realism
Surrealism, c. 1920s–1960s

Contemporary Art
1940–1965

Abstract expressionism
Action painting
Arte Povera
Art Informel
Assemblage
Beatnik art
Chicago Imagists
CoBrA, c. 1948–1951
Color Field painting
Combine painting
De-collage
Fluxus
Happening
Hard-Edge Painting
Kinetic Art
Kitchen Sink School
Lettrism
Lyrical abstraction
Neo-Dada
New Brutalism
Northwest School
Nouveau Réalisme
Op Art
Organic abstraction
Outsider Art
Panic Movement
Pop Art
Post-painterly abstraction
Process art
Public art
Retro art
Serial art
Shaped canvas
Situationist International
Tachisme

1965–2000

Abstract Illusionism
Appropriation
Arte Povera
Art Photography
Body Art
Classical Realism
Conceptual Art
Dogme 95
Earth Art
Figuration Libre
Funk art
Graffiti art
Hyperrealism
Installation art
Internet Art
Land art
Late modernism
Light and Space
Lowbrow
Lyrical Abstraction
Massurrealism
Minimalism
Neo-Expressionism
Neo-figurative
Neo-pop
Post Minimalism
Postmodernism
Photorealism
Psychedelic art
Relational art
Site-specific art
Sound Art
Transavanguardia
Young British Artists

21st century

Algorithmic art
Altermodernism
Biomorphism
Excessivism
Intentism
Intervention art
Metamodernism
Modern European ink painting
Neo-minimalism
New Media Art
Pixel art
Post-postmodernism
Relational art
Remodernism
Social practice (art)
SoFlo Superflat
Stuckism International
Superflat
Superstroke
Transgressive art
Toyism
Unilalianism
Vaporwave
Postinternet