See Art periods for a chronological list.
This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.
A Abstract art Art Brut Abstract expressionism Abstract illusionism Academic art Action painting Aestheticism Afrofuturism Altermodern American Barbizon school American Impressionism American realism American Scene Painting Analytical art Animation Antipodeans Arabesque Arbeitsrat für Kunst Art & Language Art Deco Art Informel Art Nouveau Art photography Arte Povera Arts and Crafts movement ASCII art Ashcan School Assemblage Australian Tonalism Les Automatistes Auto-destructive art Avant-garde
B Bacone school Barbizon school Baroque Bauhaus Berlin Secession Black Arts Movement Bengal School of Art Brutalism
C Cave painting Chosŏnhwa Classical Realism Cloisonnism COBRA Color Field Context art Computer art Concrete art Conceptual art Constructivism Crystal Cubism Cubo-Futurism Cubism Cynical realism
D Dada Dakar School Dansaekhwa Danube school Dau-al-Set De Stijl (also known as Neoplasticism) Deconstructivism Didacticism Digital art
E Early Netherlandish painting Ecological Art Environmental art Modern European ink painting Excessivism Exoticism Expressionism
F Fantastic realism Fauvism Feminist art Figurative art Figuration Libre Fine Art Fin de siècle Folk art Flemish painting Fluxus Funk art Futurism
G Generative art Geometric abstract art Glitch art Graffiti/Street Art Gutai group Gothic art
H Happening Harlem Renaissance Heidelberg School Hudson River School Hurufiyya Hypermodernism Hyperrealism
I Impressionism Incoherents Interactive Art Institutional critique International Gothic International Typographic Style
J Japonisme Japanese art Jugendstil
K Kinetic art Kinetic Pointillism Kitsch movement
L Land art Les Nabis Letterism Light and Space Lowbrow Lyco art Lyrical abstraction
M Magic realism Mail art Makonde art Mannerism Massurrealism Maximalism Metaphysical painting Mingei Minimalism Modernism Modular constructivism
N Naive art Neoclassicism Neo-Dada Neo-expressionism Neo-Fauvism Neo-figurative Neogeo (art) Neoism Neo-primitivism Neo-romanticism Net art New Objectivity New Sculpture Northern landscape style Northwest School Nuclear art Nueva Figuración
O Objective abstraction Op Art Orphism
P Patna School of Painting Photorealism Panfuturism Paris School Pixel art Plasticien Plein Air Pointillism Pop art Post-Impressionism Postminimalism Precisionism Pre-Raphaelitism Primitivism Private Press Process art Progressive Art Movement Psychedelic art Purism
Q Qajar art Qinglü shanshui Quito School
R Rasquache Rayonism Realism Regionalism Remodernism Renaissance Retrofuturism Rinpa school Rococo Romanesque Romanticism
S Samikshavad San Ildefonso school Serial art Shanshui Shin hanga Shock art Site-specific art Skeuomorph Sōsaku hanga Socialist realism Sots art Southern School Space art Street art Stuckism Studio style Sumatraism Superflat Suprematism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism Synthetism
T Tachisme (aka Informel) Temporary art Tingatinga Toyism Transgressive art Tonalism
U Ukiyo-e Underground comix
V Vancouver School Vanitas Verdadism Video art Visual Art Viennese Actionism Vorticism
W Women's Art Movement
Y Young British Artists (also referred to as YBAs, Brit artists, and/or Britart) Young Poland
Z Zhe school
See also
Art periods List of musical movements Art movement