An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.
Renaissance
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Renaissance c. 1300 - c. 1602, began in Florence
- Italian Renaissance - late 13th century - c. 1600 - late 15th century - late 16th century
- Renaissance Classicism
- Early Netherlandish painting - 1400 - 1500
Renaissance to Neoclassicism
- Mannerism and Late Renaissance - 1520 - 1600, began in central Italy
- Baroque - 1600 - 1730, began in Rome
- Dutch Golden Age painting - 1585 â€" 1702
- Flemish Baroque painting - 1585 â€" 1700
- Caravaggisti - 1590 - 1650
- Rococo - 1720 - 1780, began in France
- Neoclassicism - 1750 - 1830, began in Rome
Romanticism
Romanticism -1790 - 1880
- 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 (American art style) - 1850s â€" 1870s
Romanticism to modern art
- Norwich school - 1803 - 1833, England
- Biedermeier - 1815 - 1848, Germany
- Photography - Since 1826
- Realism - 1830 - 1870, began in France
- Barbizon school - c. 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
Modern art - 1860 - 1945
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 (arts) - 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 to 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 (art) - 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, Holland
- Pittura Metafisica 1917, Italy
- Arbeitsrat für Kunst 1918 - 1921
- Bauhaus - 1919 - 1933, Germany
- Others group of artists 1919, United States
- Constructivism 1920s, Russia/Soviet Union
- Vkhutemas 1920 - 1926, Russia
- Precisionism c. 1920, United States
- Surrealism Since 1920s, France
- Acéphale 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 (art) Hi's - 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 (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland
- Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States
- Action painting United States
- Color field painting
- Lyrical Abstraction
- COBRA (avant-garde movement) 1946 - 1952, Denmark/Belgium/The Netherlands
- Tachisme late-1940s - mid-1950s, France
- Abstract Imagists United States
- Art informel mid-1940s - 1950s
- Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United Kingdom/United States
Contemporary art
Contemporary art - 1946â€"present
Note: there is overlap with what is considered "contemporary art" and "modern art."
- 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
- Young British Artists 1988 -
- Digital art 1990 - present
- Toyism 1992 - present
- Transgressive art
- Massurrealism 1992 -
- Stuckism 1999 -
- Remodernism 1999 -
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