Dictionary of Art and Artists







Art Styles in 20th century Art Map









Year by Year from 1900 to 1999


Art Styles, Schools, Groups and Movements

 

1900 - 1916 1916 - 1924 1924 - 1929 1930 - 1960 1960 - 1999
Expressionism Dadaism Surrealism New Architecture Pop Art
Cubism Bauhaus Magic realism Abstract Expressionism Performance art
Futurism Art Deco Fantastic realism Art brut Photorealism
 

The New Architecture
 

Karl Ehn
Adolf Loos
Frank Lloyd Wright
Luigi Figini
Gino Pollini
Adalberto Libera
 


Artists Groups - 1930

MIAR (Movimento Italiano per l’Architettura Razionale
) -1930
Neo-Romanticism. British movement - 1930
Neo-Realisme. Term used to describe a movement  French painters-1930
GATEPAC.Spanish group of architects - 1930
Concrete art. Term coined by Theo van Doesburg in 1930


The Harlem Renaissance (early 1920's to 1930's)
 

Archibald Motley
Jacob Lawrence

Romare Bearden 
William H. Johnson 
Aaron Douglas

Lois Mailou Jones 
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Sargent Claude Johnson 
James Van Der Zee
Palmer Hayden 
Allan Rohan Crite 
 



American Scene Painting (1931-1940)

Charles Burchfield
Regionalism
John Steuart Curry
Roger Medearis
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Wood

Social realism
Reginald Marsh
Jack Levine


Abstraction-Creation
- 1931

Jean Helion
Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Valmier


 

collection: Socialist Realism
 

collection: National Socialist Art
 

Artists Groups - 1932
Socialist Realism
- 1932

Gaceta del arte
- 1932


Hlebine school. Croatian group of painters-1932

Krsto Hegedusic
Franjo Mraz
Mirko Virius
Dragan Gazi
Ivan Vecenaj
Mijo Kovacic


Artists Groups - 1932-1938

Group f.64.
American group of photographers-1932
Mobile.The term-1932
Artists International Association. English group-1933
MARS Group.Organization of British architects-1933
Krakow group. Polish group of avant-garde artists-1933
Gruppe 33.Swiss group of artists-1933
Unit One. English group of architects, painters and sculptors-1933
Post-surrealism.
1934
Forces Nouvelles. French group-1935
Biomorphism.Term-1936
American Abstract Artists.Group of painters and sculptors-1936
American Artists' Congress. Organization founded in 1936
Allianz. Group of Swiss artists-1937
DEGENERATE ART - 1937
Euston Road School
.Name given by Clive Bell in 1938
Corrente. Italian journal-1938


 

Abstract Expressionism - 1943
 

Barnett Newman
Ad Reinhardt
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Mark Rothko
Franz Kline
Adolph Gottlieb
Clyfford Still
Philip Guston
Mark Tobey
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Jack Tworkov
Bradley Walker Tomlin
Arshile Gorky
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Nevelson
 



Art brut - 1945

Jean Dubuffet
Adolph Wolfli
Joseph Crepin 
Scottie Wilson


Artists Groups - 1945

Imaginistgruppen.
Swedish Surrealist group - 1945
European School. Hungarian artistic group - 1945
Jeune Peinture Belge. Belgian group of avant-garde artists - 1945


Neo-realism in Italy - 1946

"Spazializmo" - 1946
Alberto Burri

Artists Groups - 1946-1947
Fronte Nuovo delle Arti.
Italian group of artists - 1946
The Concretists. Swedish group of artists - 1947
Forma 1.The group was founded in Rome in 1947
Perceptismo. Argentine movement - 1947
Magnum
. International photographic agency - 1947

COBRA - 1948
Asger Jorn
Pierre Alechinsky

Karel Appel
Corneille

DAU AL SET - 1948
Antoni Tapies

Art Informel -1948
Jean Fautrier

Georges Mathieu
Antonio Saura
Arnaldo Pomodoro

Homme–Temoin - 1948
Bernard Buffet

Artists Groups - 1948-1949
Concrete Art.  -
1948
Movimento arte concreta
. Italian art movement - 1948
New Horizons. Israeli group of painters - 1948
Zen 49. German association of non-objective artists - 1949


 


Artists Groups - 1950-1960
Exat-51. 1950
Luminism. Term coined c. 1950
Matter painting. Term applied to a style of painting-1950
Action Painting - 1952

Art Abstrait.
Belgian art group-1952
Art autre. Term-1952
Boom style. Term-1952
Washington Color Painters - 1952
Gruppo degli Otto Pittori Italiani. Italian group-1952
Independent Group. British group of artists, architects and critics-1952
Quadriga. German group of painters-1952
New Brutalism. Term-1953
New Empiricism. 1953
Gruppe 53. German group of painters-1953
Painters Eleven. Canadian group of painters-1953

Tachism - 1954
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)

Spatialisme
. Term coined in 1954
Gutai. Japanese group of artists-1954
Kitchen Sink school. English group of painters -1954
Colour field painting. Term-1955
Les Plasticiens.Canadian group of artists-1955
Semantic art. Term-1957
Neo-Dada
-1958
Hard-edge painting. Term-1958
Spur. German group of painters and sculptors-1958
Zero. International group of artists -1958
Arte generativo. Style of Argentine painting-1959
Gruppo T. Italian group of artists-1959
Antipodean group. Australian group of artists-1959
Gruppo N. Italian group of artists-1959
Neo-Dadaism Organizers-1960
Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel. Group of artists in Paris from 1960
Nul [Dut.: ‘Zero’]. Group of Dutch artists-1960
Situation. Title of an exhibition of British abstract painting-1960