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Art Movements
Major art movements, their dates, key ideas and artists.
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- RenaissanceMovement1400s to 1500s in Europe; rebirth of classical ideas, realism, perspective; Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
- BaroqueMovement1600s; drama, rich color, movement, strong light and dark; Caravaggio, Rembrandt
- RococoMovement1700s; light, playful, decorative; Fragonard
- NeoclassicismMovementLate 1700s; order and clarity inspired by ancient Greece and Rome; Jacques-Louis David
- RomanticismMovementEarly 1800s; emotion, nature and imagination; Delacroix, Turner
- RealismMovementMid 1800s; everyday life shown honestly; Courbet
- ImpressionismMovement1870s France; quick brushstrokes, light and color, outdoor scenes; Monet, Renoir
- Post-ImpressionismMovement1880s to 1900s; personal style and emotion beyond Impressionism; Van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat
- PointillismMovementPainting with tiny dots of color; Georges Seurat
- SymbolismMovementLate 1800s; art of dreams, ideas and mystery
- Art NouveauMovement1890s to 1910; flowing plant-like lines; Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt
- FauvismMovementEarly 1900s; wild, bold colors; Henri Matisse
- ExpressionismMovementEarly 1900s; strong feelings through distorted forms; Edvard Munch
- CubismMovementEarly 1900s; objects broken into geometric shapes seen from many sides; Picasso, Braque
- FuturismMovement1909 Italy; speed, machines and modern life
- DadaMovement1916 and after; playful anti-art in response to World War I; Marcel Duchamp
- SurrealismMovement1920s; dreams and the unconscious; Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte
- ConstructivismMovementRussia, 1910s to 1920s; geometric shapes used for modern purposes
- De StijlMovementDutch movement from 1917; straight lines, primary colors; Piet Mondrian
- BauhausMovementGerman design school founded in 1919 mixing art, craft and technology
- Art DecoMovement1920s to 1930s; sleek, geometric, glamorous design
- Abstract ExpressionismMovement1940s to 1950s New York; large energetic abstract paintings; Jackson Pollock
- Color field paintingMovementLarge areas of flat color; Mark Rothko
- Pop ArtMovement1950s to 1960s; popular culture and ads; Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
- Op ArtMovement1960s; optical illusions with patterns; Bridget Riley
- MinimalismMovement1960s; very simple forms with little detail
- Conceptual artMovementThe idea matters more than the finished object
- PhotorealismMovementPaintings that look like photographs
- Street artMovementArt made in public spaces, including murals and graffiti; Banksy, Keith Haring
- Harlem RenaissanceMovement1920s to 1930s; flowering of African American art, music and writing; Aaron Douglas
- Mexican MuralismMovement1920s to 1940s; huge public murals; Diego Rivera
- Ukiyo-eMovementJapanese woodblock prints of the Edo period; Hokusai
- Gothic artMovement1100s to 1400s Europe; cathedrals, stained glass
- Byzantine artMovementEastern Roman art with gold mosaics and religious icons
- Medieval illuminated manuscriptsMovementHand-copied books decorated with gold and bright colors
- MannerismMovementLate 1500s; stretched, elegant figures; El Greco
- Hudson River SchoolMovement1800s American landscape painters, including Thomas Cole
- Arts and Crafts movementMovementLate 1800s; handmade craft against factory goods; William Morris
- Magic RealismMovementRealistic style with unusual dreamlike details
- Naive artMovementUntrained artists' simple, bright style; Henri Rousseau
- Folk artMovementArt made by ordinary people in a community tradition
- Aboriginal dot paintingMovementAustralian Indigenous art using dots to tell stories of the land
- Which movement is named after a Monet painting?MovementImpressionism, from Impression, Sunrise (1872)
- Which movement did Picasso and Braque start?MovementCubism
- Which movement did Dali belong to?MovementSurrealism
- Which movement did Warhol belong to?MovementPop Art
- Which movement did Pollock belong to?MovementAbstract Expressionism
- Which movement did Monet belong to?MovementImpressionism
- Which movement did Mondrian belong to?MovementDe Stijl
- Which movement did Matisse lead?MovementFauvism
- Which movement did Michelangelo belong to?MovementRenaissance
- Which movement did Caravaggio belong to?MovementBaroque
- Which movement did Duchamp belong to?MovementDada
- Which movement did Seurat invent a style within?MovementPost-Impressionism, using pointillism
- Which movement did Van Gogh belong to?MovementPost-Impressionism
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