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An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.

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Renaissance

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 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 – 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 Hague School - 1870 - 1900, Netherlands American Barbizon school - 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 Luminism (Impressionism) Arts and Crafts movement - 1880 - 1910, United Kingdom Tonalism - 1880 - 1920, United States Symbolism (arts) - 1880 - 1910, France/Belgium Post-impressionism - 1886 - 1905, France Neo-impressionism 1886 - 1906, France Art Nouveau - 1890 - 1914, France 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 Bloomsbury Group - 1905 - c. 1945, England Cubism - 1907 - 1914, France Ashcan School 1907, United States Art Deco - 1909 - 1939, France Futurism (art) - 1910 - 1930, Italy Rayonism 1911, Russia Synchromism 1912, United States Universal Flowering 1913, Russia Vorticism 1914 - 1920, United Kingdom Biomorphism 1915 - 1940s Suprematism 1915 - 1925, 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 Precisionism c. 1920, United States Surrealism Since 1920s, France 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 Abstraction-Création 1931 - 1936, France Allianz (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States Art informel mid-1940s - 1950s Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United Kingdom/United States

Contemporary art

Contemporary art - 1946–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 - 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 - Maximalism 1970s -

References

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