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Periods in Western art history

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
Minoan artAegean artAncient Greek artRoman art ==Medieval art==
Medieval art
Early Christian – 260 – 525 • Migration Period – 300 – 900 • Anglo-Saxon – 400 – 1066 • Visigothic – 415 – 711 • Pre-Romanesque – 500 – 1000 • Insular – 600 – 1200 • Viking – 700 – 1100 • ByzantineMerovingianCarolingianOttonianRomanesque – 1000 – 1200 • Norman-Sicilian – 1100 – 1200 • Gothic – 1100 – 1400 • International Gothic ==Renaissance==
Renaissance
Italian Renaissance – late 13th century – c. 1600 – late 15th century – late 16th century • Renaissance ClassicismEarly Netherlandish painting – 1400 – 1500 • Early Cretan School – post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400 – 1500 • Mannerism and Late Renaissance – 1520 – 1600, began in central Italy ==Baroque to Neoclassicism==
Baroque to Neoclassicism
Baroque – 1600 – 1730, began in Rome • Dutch Golden Age painting – 1585 – 1702 • Flemish Baroque painting – 1585 – 1700 • Caravaggisti – 1590 – 1650 • Rococo – 1720 – 1780, began in FranceNeoclassicism – 1750 – 1830, began in Rome • Later Cretan School, Cretan Renaissance – 1500 – 1700 • Heptanese School – 1650 – 1830, began on Ionian Islands ==Romanticism==
Romanticism
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 – 1850s – 1870s, United States • Modern Greek art – 1830 – 1930s, Greece ==Romanticism to modern art==
Romanticism to modern art
Norwich school – 1803 – 1833, England • Biedermeier – 1815 – 1848, Germany • Academic – c. 1840 – 1900, began in France • Realism – 1830 – 1870, began in France • Barbizon school – 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
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 (movement) – 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 – 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 – 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, 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 • Vkhutemas – 1920 – 1926, Russia • Precisionism – c. 1920, United States • Surrealism – since 1920s, France • Acéphale – 1936 – 1939, 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 – 1930s – 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 – 1937 – 1950s, Switzerland • Abstract Expressionism – 1940s, Post WWII, United States • Action painting – 1940s – 1950s, United States • Tachisme – late-1940s – mid-1950s, France • Color field paintingLyrical AbstractionCOBRA – 1946 – 1952, Denmark/Belgium/The Netherlands • Abstract Imagists – United States • Art informel mid-1940s – 1950s ==Contemporary art==
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 • DeconstructivismMetarealism – 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==
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