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Listing of Art Styles as per timeline
This page is intended to provide visitors with a simple overview of major art styles and periods, as defined by art historians. The listing may vary for individual countries, due to local art styles that did not spread globally, or duration which may vary from southern Europe to Northern Europe, from Europe to the Americas, and from Asia to Europe. Styles marked with an asterisk are included on this site.
Please note that current copyright-legislation prevents me showing artworks by artists until 70 years after their death. This means that such artists as e.g. Alfons Mucha (Art Nouveau), Henri Matisse (Fauvism), Georges Braque (Cubism), Salvador Dali (Surrealism), Pablo Picasso (many different styles), Marc Chagall (Surrealism), members of the Cobra-Group, Andy Warhol (Pop Art), and many more who all passed away in the 1930's or later, are exempted from this site, and will only appear here at a later date.
The first artist to be "revived" in 2009, will be the Czech artist Alfons Mucha, who died in 1939.
| Styles and Periods | Duration, approximately |
| Paleolithic Art (Cave Art) * | 32000 BC - 11000 BC |
| Egyptian Art | 3200 BC - 30 BC |
| Babylonian-Assyrian Art | 3200 BC - 500 BC |
| Aegean Art | 3000 BC - 1100 BC |
| Greek Art Geometric Period Archaic Period * Classic Period * Hellenistic Period * |
1100 BC - 150 BC 1100 BC - 700 BC 700 BC - 480 BC 480 BC - 330 BC 330 BC - 150 BC |
| Etruscan Art * | 700 BC - 100 BC |
| Roman Art | 100 BC - 300 AD |
| Ancient Christian Art | 300 - 500 |
| Byzantine Art * | 450 - 1450 |
| Celtic Art | 450 - 1000 |
| Merovingian Art | 450 - 750 |
| Islamic Art | 650 - 1650 |
| Carolingian Art | 770 - 850 |
| Pre-Romanesque Art * | 950 - 1000 |
| Romanesque Art * | 1000 - 1200 |
| Gothic Art * | 1150 - 1525 |
| Renaissance Art * Early Renaissance * High Renaissance * Mannerism * Northern Renaissance * |
1400 - 1600 1400 - 1500 1500 - 1525 1520 - 1600 1525 - 1630 |
| Baroque Art * Régence (Late Baroque.) |
1600 - 1730 1710 - 1730 |
| Rococo * | 1730 - 1770 |
| Academic Art | 1600 - 1800 |
| Neo Classicism * Directory Empire Biedermeyer |
1760 - 1850 1795 - 1800 1800 - 1850 1820 - 1850 |
| Japanese Ukiyo-e "Images from the Floating World", Edo Period * | 1600s - 1867 |
| Romanticism * | 1810 - 1840 |
| The Hudson River School | America 1835 - 1870 |
| Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | Britain, 1848 - late 19th century |
| Victorian Classicism | Britain, mid to late 19th century |
| Arts and Crafts Movement | Britain, late 19th century |
| Realism * The Barbizon School The Ashcan School The Camden Town Group The American Scene American Regionalism Social Realism The Canadian Group Of Seven * Socialist Realism * Magic Realism Contemporary Realism |
1840 - 1870 France, mid 19th Century New York City, 1908 - c.1913 London, 1911 - 1912 America, 1931 - 1940 America, 1930s America, 1930s Canada, 1920 - 1960s Soviet Union, 1930s 1943 - 1950s America, emerged in the late 1960s / early 1970s |
| Historicism | 1850 - 1920 |
| Impressionism * Neo-Impressionism (aka Pointillism or Divisionism) * |
1870 - 1905 France, 1880s |
| Golden Age of Illustration | 1880s - 1920s |
| Post-Impressionism * Les Nabis Fauvism |
1885 - 1900 1891 - 1899 1898 - 1908 |
| Symbolism * | 1890 - 1910 |
| Syntheticism | 1890 - 1900 |
| Art Nouveau (Jugend) * | 1890 - 1910 |
| Expressionism * Die Brücke (The Bridge) Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) De Stijl * Die Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivism) Bauhaus * Functionalism * The Cobra Group |
Centered in Germany, c. 1905 - 1940s Centered in Dresden, 1905 - 1913 Centered in Munich, 1911 - 1914 The Netherlands 1917 - 1932 Germany 1918 - 1933 Germany 1919 - 1933 Denmark 1920 - 1940 Denmark, Holland, Belgium 1948 - 1951 |
| Cubism | 1907 - 1914 |
| Futurism | 1909 - 1918 |
| Constructivism | 1913 - |
| Suprematism * | 1913 - 1920 |
| Dada | 1915 - 1924 |
| Neo-Plasticism | 1917 - 1930 |
| Purism | 1918 - 1930 |
| Surrealism | 1924 - |
| Precisionism | 1918 - |
| Art Deco | 1920s - 1930s |
| The Harlem Renaissance | African-American Art 1920s - 1930s |
| Abstract Expressionism (Automatism, Tachism) | 1945 - |
| Op Art | 1960s - |
| Pop Art | 1960s - |
| Situationism | 1960s - |
| Photorealism | 1960s - |
| Minimalism | 1960s - |
| Sensation Show (Happening) | 1960s - |
| Conceptual Art | 1960s - |
| Land Art | 1960s - |
| Body Art | 1960s - |
| Folk Art (Naivism) * | --- |
Sources:
Gyldendals Leksikon, Denmark.
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