Art of the 20th Century




A Revolution in the Arts

 

 








Art Styles in 20th century Art Map


 

 




Expressionism



 
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Fauvism



 

Die Brucke:

Erich Heckel

Ernst Kirchner

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Max Pechstein

Emil Nolde

Otto Muller

James Ensor

Egon Schiele

Oskar Kokoschka

New Artists' Association; Der Blaue Reiter:

Wasily Kandincky

Alexei von Jawlensky

Gabriele Munter

Franz Marc

August Macke
 





 

Certain trends that had developed under Post-Impressionism and Symbolism

found expression in experimental art groups from the beginning of the 20th

century. Often shortlived, these trends produced neiv definitions of artists and

their work, as well as the role of art in society. The main centres for

these new ideas included Paris, Berlin, and Dresden.




 


The first two decades of the 20th century were marked by a rapid series of artistic innovations, which often appeared to contrast with each other, but which were all connected by a desire to break with the past. This common aim led to the naming of certain groups of artists as "avant-garde", a term with military connotations that conjured up the image of an advance force expressing an artistic perception that only later would become part of the
 

 

 


STYLES & MOVEMENTS - 20th century
 

Expressionism - 1905

Art Deco - 1920

Action Painting - 1952

Fauvism - 1905

Magic Realism - 1920

Tachisme -1954

Due Brucke - 1905

Roman School - 1920

Gutai Group - 1954

The Neww Artists' Associations - 1909

Surrealism - 1920

Situationism - 1957

Der Blue Reiter - 1911

The Mexican Muralist - 1921

Fluxus - 1960

Cubism - 1907-1911

Novecento Italiano - 1922

New Realism, Hyperrealism, Superrealism, Photo Realism - 1960

Futurism - 1909

Abstraction-Creation - 1931

Conceptual Art - 1960

The Camden Town Group - 1911

Degenerate Art - 1930

Pop Art - 1960

Rayonism - 1910

Socialist Realism - 1934

New Figuration - 1960

Golden Section - 1912

Abstract Expressionism - 1940

Happening, Performance Art - 1960

Constructivism - 1913

St Ives Group - 1940

Body Art - 1960

Orphism - 1913

Installation Art - 1947

Op Art - 1961

Vorticism - 1914

Art Brut - 1947

Post-Painterly Abstraction - 1964

Suprematism - 1915

Forma I - 1947

Minimalism - 1965

Dada - 1915

Spazialismo - 1947

Systemic Painting - 1966

De Stijl - 1917

Neo-Realism - 1948

Arte Povera - 1967

Neo-Plasticism - 1917

Cobra - 1948

Visual Poetry - 1968

Purism - 1918

Dau Al Set - 1948

Land Art -1970

Bauhaus - 1919

Concrete Art - 1948

Analitical Painting - 1970

Metaphysical Painting - 1919

Art Informel - 1950

Support-Surface - 1970

Valori Plastici - 1920

Neo-Dada - 1950

Transavangardia - 1979

Die Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) - 1920

Independent Group - 1950

Graffiti

Realism - 1920

Informal Art - 1951

Computer Art, Electronic Art

     

Naive Art
 

Pin-Up Art
 

Fantastic Art
 

Erotic art
 

Photography
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

   

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
 

 

   
   
   
   

 



 

   
 

 

   

 

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