Periods in Western art history explained
See also: List of art movements.
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
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Medieval art
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Renaissance
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Baroque to Neoclassicism
- Baroque – 1600 – 1730, began in Rome
- 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
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Romanticism to modern art
- Norwich school – 1803 – 1833, England
- Biedermeier – 1815 – 1848, Germany
- Realism – 1830 – 1870, began in France
- Barbizon school – 1830 – 1870, France
- Peredvizhniki – 1870 – 1890, 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
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- Impressionism – 1860 – 1890, France
- Cos Cob Art Colony – 1890s, United States
- 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
- Neo-impressionism – 1886 – 1906, France
- Art Nouveau – 1890 – 1914, France
- 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
- Bloomsbury Group – 1905 – c. 1945, England
- Cubism – 1907 – 1914, France
- Ashcan School – 1907, United States
- Art Deco – 1909 – 1939, France
- Futurism – 1910 – 1930, Italy
- Rayonism – 1911, Russia
- Synchromism – 1912, United States
- Universal Flowering – 1913, Russia
- Vorticism – 1914 – 1920, United Kingdom
- Biomorphism – 1915 – 1940s
- Suprematism – 1915 – 1925, 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
- Precisionism – c. 1920, United States
- Surrealism – since 1920s, France
- 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
- Abstraction-Création – 1931 – 1936, France
- Allianz – 1937 – 1950s, Switzerland
- Abstract Expressionism – 1940s, Post WWII, 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 –
See also