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Art periods
Art periods, movements, and groups.
Art periods - Prehistoric art
Pre-historic art | Category:Pre-historic art
Cave painting
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Art periods - African art
African art | Category:African art
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Art periods - Oceania art
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Art periods - South American art
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Art periods - Central American art
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Art periods - Asian art
Asian art | Category:Asian art
Buddhist art | Category:Buddhist art and culture
Confucian art
Art periods - Western art
Art periods - Ancient art
Arts of the ancient world | Category:Ancient art
Art of Ancient Egypt | Category:Art of Ancient Egypt
Art in Ancient Greece | Category:Ancient Greek art
Roman art | Category:Roman Empire art
Visigothic art
Art periods - Pre-Columbian art
Pre-Columbian art | Category:Pre-Columbian art
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Art periods - Native American art
Native American art | Category:Native American art
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Art periods - Islamic art
Islamic art | Category:Islamic art
Art periods - Christian art
Christian art | Category:Christian art
Art periods - Medieval art
Medieval art | Category:Medieval art
Early Christian art | Category:Christian art
Byzantine art | Category:Byzantine art
Norse art
Celtic art | Category:Celtic art
Anglo-Saxon art | Category:Anglo-Saxon art
Mosan art | Category:Mosan art
Migration Period art
Pre-Romanesque art
Romanesque
Gothic art | Category:Gothic art
International Gothic
Sienese School
Art periods - Renaissance art
Renaissance | Category:Renaissance art | c. 1300 - c. 1525
Italian Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
French Renaissance
German Renaissance
English Renaissance
Polish Renaissance
French Renaissance
Renaissance Classicism | Category:Classicism
Flemish Primitives | 1400 - 1600
Flemish School | 1400 - 1500
Danube school | 1500 - 1530
Art periods - Renaissance to Romanticism
Mannerism | Category:Mannerism | 1520 - 1600
Academic art | 1562 -
Baroque art | Category:Baroque art | 1600 - 1730
Dutch Golden Age | 17th century
Rococo | 1720 - 1780
Neoclassicism | Category:Neoclassicism | 1750 - 1830
Art periods - Romanticism
Romanticism | Category:Romantic art | 1790 - 1880
Nazarene movement | c. 1820 - late 1840s
The Ancients | 1820s - 1830s
Purismo | c. 1820 - 1860s
Düsseldorf school | mid-1820s - 1860s
Hudson River school | 1850s - c. 1880
Luminism | Category:Luminism | 1850s – 1870s
Art periods - Romanticism to Modern art
Norwich school | 1803 - 1833
Biedermeier | 1815 - 1848
Photography | Category:Photography | Since 1825
Realism | Category:Realism (art movement) | 1830 - 1870
Barbizon school | c. 1830 - 1870
Peredvizhniki | 1870 -
Hague School | 1870 - 1900
American Barbizon school
Macchiaioli | 1850s -
Metarealism | 1870 -
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | Category:Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | 1848 - 1854
Art periods - Modern art
NOTE: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.
Modern art | Category:Modern art | late 19th century - c. 1970
Russian avant-garde | Category:Russian avant-garde | 1890 - 1930 | Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Impressionism | Category:Impressionism | 1863 - 1890 | France
American Impressionism | 1880 - | United States
Cos Cob School | 1890s - | United States
Heidelberg School | late 1880s - | Austrailia
Arts and Crafts movement | Category:Arts and Crafts Movement | 1880 - 1910 | United Kingdom
Tonalism | Category:Tonalism | 1880 - 1920 | United States
Symbolism (arts) | Category:Symbolism (arts) | 1880 - 1910 | France/Belgium
Russian Symbolism | 1884 - c. 1910 | Russia
Aesthetic movement | 1868 - 1901 | United Kingdom
Post-impressionism | Category:Post-impressionism | 1886 - 1905 | France
Pointillism | 1880s - | France
Les Nabis | 1888 - 1900 | France
Fauvism | Category:Fauvism | 1904 - 1909 | France
Cloisonnism | c. 1885 - | France
Synthetism | late 1880s - early 1890s | France
School of Paris | early 20th century | France
Neo-impressionism | 1886 - 1906 | France
Art Nouveau | Category:Art Nouveau | 1890 - 1914 | France
Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) | 1897 - | Austria
Modernisme | Category:Modernisme | 1890 to 1910 | Catalan
Art à la Rue | 1890s - 1905 | Belgium/France
Young Poland | 1890 - 1918 | Poland
Mir iskusstva | 1899 - | Russia
Hagenbund | 1900 - 1930 | Austria
Expressionism | Category:Expressionism | 1905 - 1930 | Germany
Die Brücke | 1905 - 1913 | Germany
Der Blaue Reiter | 1911 - | Germany
Bloomsbury Group | Category:Bloomsbury Group | 1905 - c. 1945 | England
Cubism | Category:Cubism | 1907 - 1914 | France
Analytic Cubism | 1909 - | France
Orphism | Category:Orphism | 1912 - | France
Purism | Category:Purism | 1918 - 1926
Cubo-Expressionism | 1909 - 1921
Ashcan School | 1907 - | United States
Jack of Diamonds (artists) | 1909 - | Russia
Futurism (art) | Category:Futurism | 1910 - 1930 | Italy
Cubo-Futurism | 1912 - 1915 | Russia
Rayonism | 1911 - | Russia
Synchromism | 1912 - | United States
Universal Flowering | 1913 - | Russia
Vorticism | 1914 - 1920 | United Kingdom
Biomorphism | 1915 - 1940s
Suprematism | 1915 - 1925 | Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Dada | Category:Dada | 1916 - 1930 | Switzerland
Proletkult | 1917 - 1925 | Soviet Union
Productivism | after 1917 | Russia
De Stijl (Neoplasticism) | 1917 - 1931 | Holland
Pittura Metafisica | 1917 - | Italy
Arbeitsrat für Kunst | 1918 - 1921
Bauhaus | Category:Bauhaus | 1919 - 1933 | Germany
UNOVIS | 1919 - 1922 | Russia
Others group of artists | 1919 - | United States
Precisionism | c. 1920 - | United States
Surrealism | Category:Surrealism | Since 1920s | France
Acéphale | France
Lettrism | 1942 -
Les Automatistes | 1946 - 1951 | Canada
Devetsil | 1920 - 1931
Group of Seven | 1920 - 1933 | Canada
Harlem renaissance | 1920 - 1930s | United States
American scene painting | c. 1920 - 1945 | United States
New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) | 1920s - | Germany
Constructivism (art) | 1920s - | Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Art Deco | Category:Art Deco | 1920s - 1930s | France
Grupo Montparnasse | 1922 - | France
Soviet art | 1922 - 1986 | Soviet Union
a. r. group | 1929 - 1936
Northwest School (art) | 1930s - 1940s | United States
Social Realism - | 1929 - | international
Socialist realism | Category:Socialist realism | c. 1930 - 1950 | Soviet Union/Germany
Abstraction-Création | 1931 - 1936 | France
Allianz (arts) | 1937 - 1950s | Switzerland
Art and Freedom | 1939 - mid-1940s
Abstract Expressionism | Category:Abstract expressionism | 1940 - | United States
Action painting | United States
Color field painting
COBRA (avant-garde movement) | 1946 - 1952 | Denmark/Belgium/Holland
Tachisme | late-1940s - mid-1950s | France
Abstract Imagists | United States
Arte Madí | 1940s
Art informel | mid-1940s - 1950s
Outsider art (Art brut) | mid-1940s - | United Kingdom/United States
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism | Category:Fantastic realism | 1946 - | Austria
The Concretists | early 1950s -
Neo-Dada | 1950s | international
Soviet Nonconformist Art | 1953 - 1986 | Soviet Union
Russian Non-Conformist | Russia/Ukraine
Pop Art | Category:Pop art | mid-1950s - | United Kingdom/United States
Situationism | 1957 - early 1970s | Italy
Minimalism | Category:Minimalism | 1960 -
Art and Language | 1968 - | United Kingdom
Op Art | 1964 -
Post-painterly abstraction | 1964 -
Hard-edge painting | 1960s - | United States
Art periods - Contemporary art
(Note: there is considerable overlap with what is considered "modern", "contemporary" and "postmodern" particularly in the later years of the Modern period.)
Contemporary art | Category:Contemporary art | 1960s - present
New realism | 1960 -
Performance art | Category:Performance art | 1960s -
Fluxus | Category:Fluxus | early 1960s - late-1970s
Conceptual art | Category:Conceptual art | 1960s -
Junk art | 1960s -
Psychedelic art | early 1960s -
Battle Elephants | 1964 -
Process art | mid-1960s - 1970s
Arte Povera | 1967 -
Photorealism | Category:Photorealism | Late 1960s - early 1970s
Land art | Category:Land art | late-1960s - early 1970s
Post-minimalism | late-1960s - 1970s
Installation art | Category:Installation art | 1970s -
Neo-expressionism | late 1970s -
Metaphorical realism
Young British Artists | 1988 -
Rectoversion | 1991 -
Transgressive art | Category:Transgressive art
Synaesthesia events
Postmodern art | Category:Postmodernism
Neoism | 1979
Deconstructivism
Massurrealism | 1992 -
Stuckism | 1999 -
Remodernism | 1999 -
Maximalism
Art periods - Other
Self-declared art movement
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