Art periods

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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.

Medieval art

c. 200 - c. 1430 Medieval art

Early Christian art

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

American Expressionism c. 1920 -

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