Styles & Periods Handout
Pick one Period/ Style of Art (which is highlighted in yellow) to research. The highlighted topics must be
chosen before choosing a non-highlighted choice.
Remember: 10 Works of Art, 3 Artists, and 3 Museums (not all in United States) are the requirements
to fulfill your database. Keep track of all sources of information!
Renaissance Classicism
Medieval art
Early Netherlandish painting - 1400 - 1500
c. 200 - c. 1430 Medieval art
Early Christian art Renaissance to Neoclassicism
Byzantine art Mannerism and Late Renaissance - 1520 -
1600
Norse art
Baroque - 1600 - 1730
Celtic art
Dutch Golden Age painting - 1585 – 1702
Anglo-Saxon art
Flemish Baroque painting - 1585 – 1700
Mosan art
Rococo - 1720 - 1780
Migration Period art
Neoclassicism - 1750 - 1830
Pre-Romanesque art
Romanesque art Romanticism
Gothic art Romanticism -1790 - 1880
International Gothic
Nazarene movement - c. 1820 - late 1840s
Sienese School
The Ancients - 1820s - 1830s
Renaissance Purismo - c. 1820 - 1860s
Düsseldorf school - mid-1820s - 1860s
Renaissance c. 1300 - c. 1602
Hudson River school - 1850s - c. 1880
Italian Renaissance - late 14th century - c.
1600 - late 15th century - late 16th Luminism (American art style) - 1850s –
century 1870s
Arts and Crafts movement - 1880 - 1910,
Romanticism to Modern Art
United Kingdom
Norwich school - 1803 - 1833, England
Tonalism - 1880 - 1920, United States
Biedermeier - 1815 - 1848, Germany
Symbolism (arts) - 1880 - 1910,
Photography - Since 1825 France/Belgium
Realism - 1830 - 1870, began in France Russian Symbolism 1884 - c. 1910, Russia
Barbizon school - c. 1830 - 1870, France Aesthetic movement 1868 - 1901, United
Kingdom
Peredvizhniki - 1870, Russia
Post-impressionism - 1886 - 1905, France
Hague School - 1870 - 1900, Netherlands
Pointillism 1880s, France
American Barbizon school - United States
Les Nabis 1888 - 1900, France
Spanish Eclecticism - 1845 - 1890, Spain
Fauvism - 1904 - 1909, France
Macchiaioli - 1850s, Tuscany, Italy
Cloisonnism c. 1885, France
Metarealism - 1870, Russia
Synthetism late 1880s - early 1890s,
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - 1848 - France
1854, England
School of Paris early 20th century, France
Modern art Neo-impressionism 1886 - 1906, France
Modern art - late 19th century - c. 1970 Art Nouveau - 1890 - 1914, France
Note: The countries listed are the country in Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) 1897,
which the movement or group started. Most Austria
modern art movements were international in
scope. Jugendstil Germany, Scandinavia
Modernisme - 1890 to 1910, Catalan
Russian avant-garde - 1890 - 1930,
Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union Art à la Rue 1890s - 1905, Belgium/France
Impressionism - 1863 - 1890, France Young Poland 1890 - 1918, Poland
American Impressionism 1880, United Mir iskusstva 1899, Russia
States
Hagenbund 1900 - 1930, Austria
Cos Cob Art Colony 1890s, United States
Expressionism - 1905 - 1930, Germany
Heidelberg School late 1880s, Australia
Die Brücke 1905 - 1913, Germany
Luminism (Impressionism)
Der Blaue Reiter 1911, Germany UNOVIS 1919 - 1922, Russia
Bloomsbury Group - 1905 - c. 1945, Others group of artists 1919, United
England States
Cubism - 1907 - 1914, France American Expressionism c. 1920 -
Analytic Cubism 1909, France Precisionism c. 1920, United States
Orphism - 1912, France Surrealism Since 1920s, France
Purism - 1918 - 1926 Acéphale France
Cubo-Expressionism 1909 - 1921 Lettrism 1942 -
Ashcan School 1907, United States Les Automatistes 1946 - 1951, Canada
Jack of Diamonds (artists) 1909, Russia Devetsil 1920 - 1931
Futurism (art) - 1910 - 1930, Italy Group of Seven 1920 - 1933, Canada
Cubo-Futurism 1912 - 1915, Russia Harlem renaissance 1920 - 1930s, United
States
Rayonism 1911, Russia
American scene painting c. 1920 - 1945,
Synchromism 1912, United States United States
Universal Flowering 1913, Russia New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
Vorticism 1914 - 1920, United Kingdom 1920s, Germany
Biomorphism 1915 - 1940s Constructivism (art) 1920s,
Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Suprematism 1915 - 1925,
Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union Art Deco - 1920s - 1930s, France
Dada - 1916 - 1930, Switzerland Grupo Montparnasse 1922, France
Proletkult 1917 - 1925, Soviet Union Soviet art 1922 - 1986, Soviet Union
Productivism after 1917, Russia a. r. group 1929 - 1936
De Stijl (Neoplasticism) 1917 - 1931, Northwest School (art) 1930s - 1940s,
Holland United States
Pittura Metafisica 1917, Italy Social realism, 1929, international
Arbeitsrat für Kunst 1918 - 1921 Socialist realism - c. 1930 - 1950, Soviet
Union/Germany
Bauhaus - 1919 - 1933, Germany
Abstraction-Création 1931 - 1936, France
Allianz (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland Art and Language 1968, United Kingdom
Art and Freedom 1939 - mid-1940s Op Art 1964 -
Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post Post-painterly abstraction 1964 -
WWII, United States
Hard-edge painting 1960s, United States
Action painting United States
Color field painting Contemporary art
Lyrical Abstraction (Note: there is overlap with what is considered
"contemporary," "postmodern," and "modern
COBRA (avant-garde movement) 1946 - art.")
1952, Denmark/Belgium/Holland
Contemporary art - present
Tachisme late-1940s - mid-1950s, France
Digital art 1990 - present
Abstract Imagists United States
Postmodern art - present
Arte Madí 1940s
Modernism - present
Art informel mid-1940s - 1950s
New realism 1960 -
Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United
Kingdom/United States Performance art - 1960s -
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - 1946, Fluxus - early 1960s - late-1970s
Austria
Conceptual art - 1960s -
The Concretists early 1950s -
Graffiti 1960s-
Neo-Dada 1950s, international
Junk art 1960s -
International Typographic Style 1950s,
Psychedelic art early 1960s -
Switzerland
Lyrical Abstraction mid-1960s -
Soviet Nonconformist Art 1953 - 1986,
Soviet Union Process art mid-1960s - 1970s
Russian Non-Conformist Russia/Ukraine Arte Povera 1967 -
Pop Art mid-1950s, United Photorealism - Late 1960s - early 1970s
Kingdom/United States
Land art - late-1960s - early 1970s
Situationism 1957 - early 1970s, Italy
Post-minimalism late-1960s - 1970s
Magic realism 1960s, Germany
Installation art - 1970s -
Minimalism - 1960 -
Neo-expressionism late 1970s -
Figuration Libre early 1980s Deconstructivism
Metaphorical realism Battle Elephants 1984
Young British Artists 1988 - Massurrealism 1992 -
Rectoversion 1991 - Stuckism 1999 -
Transgressive art Remodernism 1999 -
Synaesthesia events Maximalism
Neoism 1979
This list has been copied from Wikipedia and should be all inclusive. If you know of one that is not
mentioned, please check with the teacher to gain approval.