Periods in Western art history

This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.

Ancient Classical art

Minoan art Aegean art Ancient Greek art Roman art

Medieval art

Early Christian – 260 – 525 Migration Period – 300 – 900 Anglo-Saxon – 400 – 1066 Visigothic – 415 – 711 Pre-Romanesque – 500 – 1000 Insular – 600 – 1200 Viking – 700 – 1100 Byzantine Merovingian Carolingian Ottonian Romanesque – 1000 – 1200 Norman-Sicilian – 1100 – 1200 Gothic – 1100 – 1400 International Gothic

Renaissance

Italian Renaissance – late 13th century – c. 1600 – late 15th century – late 16th century Renaissance Classicism Early Netherlandish painting – 1400 – 1500 Early Cretan School – post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400 – 1500 Mannerism and Late Renaissance – 1520 – 1600, began in central Italy

Baroque to Neoclassicism

Baroque – 1600 – 1730, began in Rome Dutch Golden Age painting – 1585 – 1702 Flemish Baroque painting – 1585 – 1700 Caravaggisti – 1590 – 1650 Rococo – 1720 – 1780, began in France Neoclassicism – 1750 – 1830, began in Rome Later Cretan School, Cretan Renaissance – 1500 – 1700 Heptanese School – 1650 – 1830, began on Ionian Islands

Romanticism

Nazarene movement – c. 1820 – late 1840s The Ancients – 1820s – 1840s Purismo – c. 1820 – 1860s Düsseldorf school – mid-1820s – 1860s Hudson River School – 1850s – c. 1880 Luminism – 1850s – 1870s, United States Modern Greek art – 1830 – 1930s, Greece

Romanticism to modern art

Norwich school – 1803 – 1833, England Biedermeier – 1815 – 1848, Germany Academic – c. 1840 – 1900, began in France Realism – 1830 – 1870, began in France Barbizon school – 1830 – 1870, France Peredvizhniki – 1870 – 1890, Russia Abramtsevo Colony – 1870s, Russia Hague School – 1870 – 1900, Netherlands American Barbizon School 1850 – 1890s – United States Spanish Eclecticism – 1845 – 1890, Spain Macchiaioli – 1850s, Tuscany, Italy Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – 1848 – 1854, England

Modern art

Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.

Impressionism – 1860 – 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 (movement) – 1880 – 1910, France/Belgium Russian Symbolism – 1884 – c. 1910, Russia Aesthetic movement – 1868 – 1901, United Kingdom Post-Impressionism – 1886 – 1905, France Les Nabis – 1888 – 1900, France Cloisonnism – c. 1885, France Synthetism – late 1880s – early 1890s, France Neo-impressionism – 1886 – 1906, France Pointillism – 1879, France Divisionism – 1880s, France Art Nouveau – 1890 – 1914, France Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) – 1897, Austria Mir iskusstva – 1899, Russia Jugendstil – Germany, Scandinavia Modernisme – 1890 – 1910, Spain Russian avant-garde – 1890 – 1930, Russia/Soviet Union Art à la Rue – 1890s – 1905, Belgium/France Young Poland – 1890 – 1918, Poland Hagenbund – 1900 – 1930, Austria Fauvism – 1904 – 1909, France Expressionism – 1905 – 1930, Germany Die Brücke – 1905 – 1913, Germany Der Blaue Reiter – 1911, Germany Flemish Expressionism – 1911–1940, Belgium Bloomsbury Group – 1905 – c. 1945, England Cubism – 1907 – 1914, France Jack of Diamonds – 1909 – 1917, Russia Orphism – 1912, France Purism – 1918 – 1926, France Ashcan School – 1907, United States Art Deco – 1909 – 1939, France Futurism – 1910 – 1930, Italy Russian Futurism – 1912 – 1920s, Russia 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 UNOVIS – 1919 – 1922, Russia Dada – 1916 – 1930, Switzerland Proletkult – 1917 – 1925, Russia Productijism – after 1917, Russia De Stijl (Neoplasticism) – 1917 – 1931, Netherlands (Utrecht) Pittura Metafisica – 1917, Italy Arbeitsrat für Kunst – 1918 – 1921 Bauhaus – 1919 – 1933, Germany The "Others" – 1919, United States Constructivism – 1920s, Russia/Soviet Union Vkhutemas – 1920 – 1926, Russia Precisionism – c. 1920, United States Surrealism – since 1920s, France Acéphale – 1936 – 1939, France Lettrism – 1942 – Les Automatistes 1946 – 1951, Quebec, 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 Grupo Montparnasse – 1922, France Northwest School – 1930s – 1940s, United States Social realism – 1929, international Socialist realism – c. 1920 – 1960, began in Soviet Union Leningrad School of Painting – 1930s – 1950s, Soviet Union Socrealism – 1949 – 1955, Poland Abstraction-Création – 1931 – 1936, France Allianz – 1937 – 1950s, Switzerland Abstract Expressionism – 1940s, Post WWII, United States Action painting – 1940s – 1950s, United States Tachisme – late-1940s – mid-1950s, France Color field painting Lyrical Abstraction COBRA – 1946 – 1952, Denmark/Belgium/The Netherlands Abstract Imagists – United States Art informel mid-1940s – 1950s

Contemporary art Contemporary art – 1946–present

Note: there is overlap with what is considered "contemporary art" and "modern art."

Contemporary Greek art – 1945 Greece Vienna School of Fantastic Realism – 1946, Austria Neo-Dada – 1950s, international International Typographic Style – 1950s, Switzerland Soviet Nonconformist Art – 1953 – 1986, Soviet Union Painters Eleven – 1954 – 1960, Canada Pop Art – mid-1950s, United Kingdom/United States Woodlands School – 1958 – 1962, Canada Situationism – 1957 – early 1970s, Italy New realism – 1960 – Magic realism – 1960s, Germany Minimalism – 1960 – Hard-edge painting – early 1960s, United States Fluxus – early 1960s – late-1970s Happening – early 1960 – Video art – early 1960 – Psychedelic art – early 1960s – Conceptual art – 1960s – Graffiti – 1960s – Junk art – 1960s – Performance art – 1960s – Op Art – 1964 – Post-painterly abstraction – 1964 – Lyrical Abstraction – mid-1960s – Process art – mid-1960s – 1970s Arte Povera – 1967 – Art and Language – 1968, United Kingdom Photorealism – late 1960s – early 1970s Land art – late-1960s – early 1970s Post-minimalism – late 1960s – 1970s Postmodern art – 1970 – present Deconstructivism Metarealism – 1970 – 1980, Soviet Union Sots Art – 1972 – 1990s, Soviet Union/Russia Installation art – 1970s – Mail art – 1970s – Maximalism – 1970s – Neo-expressionism – late 1970s – Neoism – 1979 Figuration Libre – early 1980s Street art – early 1980s Young British Artists – 1988 – Digital art – 1990 – present Toyism – 1992 – present Massurrealism – 1992 – Stuckism – 1999 – Remodernism – 1999 – Excessivism – 2015 –

Periods in Western art history

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