ART PERIODS

An 'art period' is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement. This article outlines phases of art in the Western world by period.

Contents

Medieval art

Renaissance art

Renaissance to Neoclassicism

Romanticism

Romanticism to Modern art

Modern art

Contemporary art

See also

Medieval art

c. 200 - c. 1430
Medieval art
:Early Christian art
:Byzantine art
:Norse art
:Celtic art
:Anglo-Saxon art
:Mosan art
:Migration Period art
:Pre-Romanesque art
:Romanesque art
:Gothic art
::International Gothic
:Sienese School

Renaissance art

Renaissance c. 1300 - c. 1602
:Italian Renaissance - late 14th century - c. 1600 - late 15th century - late 16th century
:Renaissance Classicism
:Early Netherlandish painting - 1400 - 1500

Renaissance to Neoclassicism

:Mannerism and Late Renaissance - 1520 - 1600
:Baroque - 1600 - 1730
:Dutch Golden Age painting - 1585-1702
:Rococo - 1720 - 1780
:Neoclassicism - 1750 - 1830

Romanticism

Romanticism -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 (American art style) - 1850s – 1870s

Romanticism to Modern art

:Norwich school - 1803 - 1833 | England
:Biedermeier - 1815 - 1848, Germany
:Photography - Since 1825
:Realism - 1830 - 1870, began in France
:Barbizon school - c. 1830 - 1870, France
:Peredvizhniki - 1870, Russia
:Hague School - 1870 - 1900, Netherlands
:American Barbizon school - United States
:Spanish Eclecticism - 1845 - 1890, Spain
:Macchiaioli - 1850s, Tuscany, Italy
:Metarealism - 1870, Russia
:Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - 1848 - 1854, England

Modern art

Modern art - late 19th century - c. 1970
Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.
:Russian avant-garde - 1890 - 1930, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
:Impressionism - 1863 - 1890, France
::American Impressionism 1880, United States
::Cos Cob Art Colony 1890s, United States
::Heidelberg School late 1880s, Australia
:Luminism (Impressionism)
:Arts and Crafts movement - 1880 - 1910, United Kingdom
:Tonalism - 1880 - 1920, United States
:Symbolism (arts) - 1880 - 1910, France/Belgium
::Russian Symbolism 1884 - c. 1910, Russia
::Aesthetic movement 1868 - 1901, United Kingdom
:Post-impressionism - 1886 - 1905, France
::Pointillism 1880s, France
::Les Nabis 1888 - 1900, France
::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 - 1890 - 1914, France
::Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) 1897, Austria
::Jugendstil Germany, Scandinavia
::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 - 1905 - 1930, Germany
::Die Brücke 1905 - 1913, Germany
::Der Blaue Reiter 1911, Germany
:Bloomsbury Group - 1905 - c. 1945, England
:Cubism - 1907 - 1914, France
::Analytic Cubism 1909, France
::Orphism - 1912, France
::Purism - 1918 - 1926
::Cubo-Expressionism 1909 - 1921
:Ashcan School 1907, United States
:Jack of Diamonds (artists) 1909, Russia
:Futurism (art) - 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 - 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 - 1919 - 1933, Germany
:UNOVIS 1919 - 1922, Russia
:Others group of artists 1919, United States
:Precisionism c. 1920, United States
: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 - 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 - c. 1930 - 1950, Soviet Union/Germany
:Abstraction-Création 1931 - 1936, France
:Allianz (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland
:Art and Freedom 1939 - mid-1940s
:Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States
::Action painting United States
::Color field painting
::Lyrical Abstraction
::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 - 1946, Austria
:The Concretists early 1950s -
:Neo-Dada 1950s, international
:International Typographic Style 1950s, Switzerland
:Soviet Nonconformist Art 1953 - 1986, Soviet Union
:Russian Non-Conformist Russia/Ukraine
:Pop Art mid-1950s, United Kingdom/United States
:Situationism 1957 - early 1970s, Italy
:Magic realism 1960s, Germany
:Minimalism - 1960 -
:Art and Language 1968, United Kingdom
:Op Art 1964 -
:Post-painterly abstraction 1964 -
::Hard-edge painting 1960s, United States

Contemporary art

''(Note: there is overlap with what is considered "contemporary," "postmodern," and "modern art.")''
:Contemporary art - present
:Postmodern art - present
:Modernism - present
:New realism 1960 -
:Performance art - 1960s -
:Fluxus - early 1960s - late-1970s
:Conceptual art - 1960s -
:Graffiti 1960s-
:Junk art 1960s -
:Psychedelic art early 1960s -
:Lyrical Abstraction mid-1960s -
:Process art mid-1960s - 1970s
:Arte Povera 1967 -
:Photorealism - Late 1960s - early 1970s
:Land art - late-1960s - early 1970s
:Post-minimalism late-1960s - 1970s
:Installation art - 1970s -
:Neo-expressionism late 1970s -
:Figuration Libre early 1980s
:Metaphorical realism
:Young British Artists 1988 -
:Rectoversion 1991 -
:Transgressive art
:Synaesthesia events
:Neoism 1979
:Deconstructivism
:Battle Elephants 1984
:Massurrealism 1992 -
:Stuckism 1999 -
:Remodernism 1999 -
:Maximalism

See also

★ Aegean art

★ African art

★ Arts of the ancient world

★ Art of Ancient Egypt

★ Art in Ancient Greece

★ Asian art

★ Buddhist art

★ Confucian art

★ Islamic art

★ Naive Art

★ Native American art

★ Pre-Columbian art

★ Pre-historic art

★ Roman art

★ Self-declared art movement

★ Visigothic art