List of art movements

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

• Afrofuturism
• ASCII art
• Abstract art
• Art Brut
• Abstract expressionism
• Abstract illusionism
• Academic art
• Action painting
• Aestheticism
• Altermodern
• American Barbizon school
• American impressionism
• American realism
• American Scene Painting
• Analytical art
• Antipodeans
• Arabesque
• Arbeitsrat für Kunst
• Art & Language
• Art Deco
• Art Informel
• Art Nouveau
• Art photography
• Arte Povera
• Arts and Crafts movement
• Ashcan School
• Assemblage
• Australian Tonalism
• Les Automatistes
• Auto-destructive art
• Avant-garde

B

• Barbizon school
• Baroque
• Bauhaus
• Berlin Secession
• Black Arts Movement
• Bengal School of Art
• Brutalism

C

• Classical Realism
• Cloisonnism
• COBRA
• Color Field
• Context art
• Computer art
• Concrete art
• Conceptual art
• Constructivism
• Crystal Cubism
• Cubo-Futurism
• Cubism
• Cynical realism

D

• Dada
• Dansaekhwa
• Danube school
• Dau-al-Set
• De Stijl (also known as Neoplasticism)
• Deconstructivism
• Didacticism
• Digital art

E

• Ecological Art
• Environmental art
• Modern European ink painting
• Excessivism
• Exoticism
• Expressionism

F

• Fantastic realism
• Fauvism
• Feminist art
• Figurative art
• Figuration Libre
• Fine Art
• Folk art
• Fluxus
• Funk art
• Futurism

G

• 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

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
• 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
• Northwest School
• Nuclear art

O

• Objective abstraction
• Op Art
• Orphism

P

• Photorealism
• Panfuturism
• Paris School
• Pixel art
• Plasticien
• Plein Air
• Pointillism
• Pop art
• Post-impressionism
• Postminimalism
• Precisionism
• Pre-Raphaelitism
• Primitivism
• Private Press
• Process art
• Psychedelic art
• Purism

Q

• Qajar art
• Quito School

R

• Rasquache
• Rayonism
• Realism
• Regionalism
• Remodernism
• Renaissance
• Retrofuturism
• Rococo
• Romanesque
• Romanticism

S

• Samikshavad
• Serial art
• Shin hanga
• Shock art
• Sōsaku hanga
• Socialist realism
• Sots art
• Space art
• Street art
• Stuckism
• Sumatraism
• Superflat
• Suprematism
• Surrealism
• Symbolism
• Synchromism
• Synthetism

T

• Tachisme (aka Informel)
• Temporary art
• Toyism
• Transgressive art
• Tonalism

U

• Ukiyo-e
• Underground comix
• Unilalianism

V

• Vancouver School
• Vanitas
• Verdadism
• Video art
• Visual Art
• Viennese Actionism
• Vorticism

X

• Xenocentrism

See also

• Art periods
• List of musical movements
• Art movement