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Art-Historical Styles, Movements & Schools

Classifies art-historical styles, movements, and schools such as Impressionism, Baroque, and Cubism.

Ancient & Classical Art Movements Medieval & Byzantine Art Movements Renaissance & Mannerism Baroque & Rococo Romanticism & Realism Impressionism & Post-Impressionism Symbolism, Art Nouveau & Art Deco Early Modern Avant-Garde Postwar Art Movements Contemporary Art Movements

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Abstract Expressionism · Cat

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Abstract Expressionism

A postwar art movement emphasizing abstract form and gesture.

Academic art · Cat

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Academic art

An art style associated with academic instruction that emphasizes representational depiction and ordered composition.

Ancient Egyptian art · Cat

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Ancient Egyptian art

An ancient Egyptian art style arranging figures and objects with clear outlines and standardized appearance.

Art Deco · Cat

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Art Deco

An art style marked by geometric order and refined decoration.

Art Nouveau · Cat

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Art Nouveau

An art style marked by flowing organic line and botanical ornament.

Arts and Crafts movement · Cat

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Arts and Crafts movement

An arts movement valuing handcraft and material quality.

Baroque · Cat

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Baroque

An art style using strong light-dark contrast, movement, and dramatic spatial effect.

Bauhaus · Cat

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Bauhaus

A historical school and movement integrating art with industrial design.

Byzantine art · Cat

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Byzantine art

A Byzantine art style using frontality, planar color regions, and bright gold-like grounds.

Classical Greek art · Cat

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Classical Greek art

A classical Greek art style emphasizing balanced human proportion and composed arrangement.

Conceptual Art · Cat

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Conceptual Art

An art movement prioritizing ideas and procedure over a finished object.

Constructivism · Cat

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Constructivism

An art movement emphasizing geometric construction and material relations.

Cubism · Cat

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Cubism

An early twentieth-century art movement assembling multiple viewpoints and fragmented forms.

Dada · Cat

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Dada

An early twentieth-century art movement of critique and experiment against conventional art.

Dutch Golden Age Art · Cat

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Dutch Golden Age Art

A seventeenth-century Dutch art style emphasizing observed light and everyday spaces.

Expressionism · Cat

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Expressionism

An early twentieth-century art movement expressing inner experience through emphatic color, form, and mark.

Fauvism · Cat

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Fauvism

An early twentieth-century art movement emphasizing vivid color.

Futurism · Cat

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Futurism

An early twentieth-century art movement focused on speed and modern motion.

Gothic Art · Cat

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Gothic Art

A medieval European art style marked by verticality and decorative line.

Illuminated Manuscript Art · Cat

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Illuminated Manuscript Art

A manuscript art style integrating lettering with painted ornament.

Impressionism · Cat

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Impressionism

A late nineteenth-century art style emphasizing changing light and short brushwork.

Mannerism · Cat

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Mannerism

An art style emphasizing elongated form and tension in unstable space.

Minimalism · Cat

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Minimalism

A postwar art movement emphasizing reduced form and repetition.

Neo-Impressionism · Cat

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Neo-Impressionism

An art style building luminous color relationships from small separated marks.