An Art Period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.
The history of art is immense and the earliest cave paintings pre-date writing by almost 27,000 years!
Ancient Classical art
Minoan art
Ancient Greek art
Roman art
Ancient Egyptian colors
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
- Byzantine
- Merovingian
- Carolingian
- Ottonian
- Romanesque 1000-1200
- Norman-Sicilian 1100-1200
- Gothic 1100-1400 (International Gothic)
Renaissance
Renaissance c. 1300 - c. 1602, began in Florence
Raphael colors
- Italian Renaissance - late 13th century - c. 1600 - late 15th century - late 16th century
- Renaissance Classicism
- Early Netherlandish painting - 1400-1500
Renaissance colors
Renaissance to Neoclassicism
- Mannerism and Late Renaissance - 1520-1600, began in central Italy
- Baroque - 1600-1730, began in Rome
- Dutch Golden Age painting 1585-1702
- Flemish Baroque painting 1585-1700
- Caravaggisti 1590-1650
Johannes Vermeer colors
- Rococo 1720-1780, began in France
- Neoclassicism - 1750 - 1830, began in Rome
Caravaggio colors
Romanticism (1780-1850)
- 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 - 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 (1860-1945)
Marc Chagall colors
Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.
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Impressionism - 1860-1890, France
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Colors
Claude Monet colors
Edgar Degas colors
- 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
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Symbolism (arts) - 1880-1910, France/Belgium
- Russian Symbolism 1884 - c. 1910, Russia
- Aesthetic movement 1868-1901, United Kingdom
- Post-impressionism - 1886-1905, France
Van Gogh colors
- 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
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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 (art) - 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
- Others group of artists 1919, United States
- Constructivism 1920s, Russia/Soviet Union
- Vkhutemas 1920-1926, Russia
- Precisionism c. 1920, United States
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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
- 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
- Leningrad School of Painting 1930s-1950s, Soviet Union
- Socrealism, 1949-1955, Poland
- Abstraction-Création 1931-1936, France
- Allianz (arts) 1937-1950s, Switzerland
- Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States
- Action painting United States
- Color field painting
- Lyrical Abstraction
- COBRA (avant-garde movement) 1946-1952, Denmark/Belgium/The Netherlands
- Tachisme late-1940s - mid-1950s, France
- Abstract Imagists United States
- Art informel mid-1940s-1950s
- Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United Kingdom/United States
American impressionism Colors
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 -
- 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
- Transgressive art
- Massurrealism 1992 -
- Stuckism 1999 -
- Remodernism 1999.
18-19 Centry art colors
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