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 painting •
Lyrical Abstraction •
COBRA – 1946 – 1952, Denmark/Belgium/The Netherlands •
Abstract Imagists – United States •
Art informel mid-1940s – 1950s ==Contemporary art==