Art Periods - Modern Art

Modern Art

Modern art - late 19th century - c. 1970

Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.

Impressionism - 1863 - 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

Pointillism 1880s, France

Les Nabis 1888 - 1900, France

Fauvism - 1904 - 1909, France

Cloisonnism c. 1885, France

Synthetism late 1880s - early 1890s, France

School of Paris early 20th century, France

Neo-impressionism 1886 - 1906, France

Art Nouveau - 1890 - 1914, France

Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) 1897, Austria

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

Young Poland 1890 - 1918, Poland

Mir iskusstva 1899, Russia

Hagenbund 1900 - 1930, Austria

Expressionism - 1905 - 1930, Germany

Die Brücke 1905 - 1913, Germany

Der Blaue Reiter 1911, Germany

Bloomsbury Group - 1905 - c. 1945, England

Cubism - 1907 - 1914, France

Analytic Cubism 1909, France

Orphism - 1912, France

Purism - 1918 - 1926

Cubo-Expressionism 1909 - 1921

Ashcan School 1907, United States

Jack of Diamonds (artists) 1909, Russia

Futurism (art) - 1910 - 1930, Italy

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/Ukraine/Soviet Union

Dada - 1916 - 1930, Switzerland

Proletkult 1917 - 1925, Soviet Union

Productijism after 1917, Russia

De Stijl (Neoplasticism) 1917 - 1931, Holland

Pittura Metafisica 1917, Italy

Arbeitsrat für Kunst 1918 - 1921

Bauhaus - 1919 - 1933, Germany

UNOVIS 1919 - 1922, Russia

Others group of artists 1919, United States

American Expressionism c. 1920 -

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

Constructivism (art) 1920s, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union

Art Deco - 1920s - 1930s, France

Grupo Montparnasse 1922, France

Soviet art 1922 - 1986, Soviet Union

a. r. group 1929 - 1936

Northwest School (art) Hi's - 1940s, United States

Social realism, 1929, international

Socialist realism - c. 1930 - 1950, Soviet Union/Germany

Abstraction-Création 1931 - 1936, France

Allianz (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland

Art and Freedom 1939 - mid-1940s

Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States

Action painting United States

Color field painting

Lyrical Abstraction

COBRA (avant-garde movement) 1946 - 1952, Denmark/Belgium/Holland

Tachisme late-1940s - mid-1950s, France

Abstract Imagists United States

Arte Madí 1940s

Art informel mid-1940s - 1950s

Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United Kingdom/United States

Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - 1946, Austria

The Concretists early 1950s -

Neo-Dada 1950s, international

International Typographic Style 1950s, Switzerland

Soviet Nonconformist Art 1953 - 1986, Soviet Union

Painters Eleven 1954-1960, Canada

Woodlands School 1958-1962, Canada

Russian Non-Conformist Russia/Ukraine

Pop Art mid-1950s, United Kingdom/United States

Situationism 1957 - early 1970s, Italy

Magic realism 1960s, Germany

Minimalism - 1960 -

Art and Language 1968, United Kingdom

Op Art 1964 -

Post-painterly abstraction 1964 -

Hard-edge painting 1960s, United States