A Movement in France in the 1870s That Considered Art to Be a Slice of Life

Mod Fine art Movements: 1870s to 1980s

This timeline displays the major trends and movements in modernistic art, approximately dated to when they began, or when they gained prominence. Please visit this page on your desktop computer to meet this timeline. Click on any movement for a quick overview and further data. Also, you lot can visit the full listing of all movements and styles on The Art Story. MOVEMENTS: 1870 to 1930 MOVEMENTS: 1940 to 1980

This French painting movement began when avant-garde artists including Cézanne, Renoir, and Manet scandalized the art globe after beingness refused admission to the official art salon.

Turning away from the stress on clarity of form and realistic rendering, the French Impressionists had an interest in how visual perception was based in fleeting optical impressions. They sought new ways to capture calorie-free and movement, temper, and weather. They loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors – especially in their landscapes. Drawn to modern life, they also painted the mid-nineteenth century changes in Paris – capturing breach amid public spaces such every bit railway stations, boulevards, cafes, and cabarets.

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Symbolism emerged in France led by artists that looked to add more personal meaning to their work.

Considered part of Post-Impressionism, Symbolist artists, writers, and musicians emphasized mystical, romantic, and expressive themes every bit a means of escaping gimmicky moralism, rationalism, and materialism. Artists such as Edvard Munch and Gustave Moreau developed new means to express psychological truth, giving form to the spiritual reality behind the physical world, evidenced in paintings of dream worlds, melancholy, and death.

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Emerging in Paris, Les Nabis was a cult-like grouping of Symbolist artists that wanted to reveal reality through the arts.

Based on the teachings of Gauguin and the Symbolists, Nabi artists such as Vuillard and Bonnard saw themselves every bit "seers" with the power to reveal the invisible. They believed that sounds, colors, and words had a power across representation. They combined Impressionist brushstrokes with bright colors, mystical subject thing, and patterned backgrounds to emphasize the mystery of everyday life.

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The Post Impressionists were a loose group of Paris-based artists who are often viewed together because of their various reactions to the before Impressionism motility.

Postal service-Impressionists turned away from the effects of light and temper to explore painting theory and the subjective artistic vision. Artists such as Gauguin and van Gogh looked to memories and emotions to explore personal ideas, while Cézanne and Seurat explored the edifice blocks of painting such every bit colors, shapes, and overall composition.

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Art Nouveau dominated the decorative arts every bit visual artists, designers, and architects began adopting modern and naturalistic modes of ornament, every bit opposed to the ornateness of Victorian-era pattern.

Art Nouveau had a vast number of practitioners throughout Europe and went by several names such equally Jugendstil and The Glasgow Fashion. The shared vision was to modernize decorative pattern using organic and geometric forms, simple floral patterns, "whiplash" curves, and angular contours. It aimed to raise the status of arts and crafts, aspiring to "total works of the arts" (Gesamtkunstwerk) – for instance, to create buildings and interiors in which every element partook of the same visual vocabulary.

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The Fauves were a loosely affiliated grouping of French painters who shared a preoccupation with expression through color and grade.

The group congenital on Postal service-Impressionist experiments with paint awarding, subject matter, expressive line, and pure color - especially the innovations of van Gogh, Seurat, and Gauguin. Led past Matisse, The Fauves developed an anti-naturalistic style to limited personal feelings towards their subjects. Formally, their work is characterized past vivid, often unmixed colour, striking surface design and a bold approach to execution. A heaven could be orange, a tree could be blue, and simple forms and saturated colors drew attending to the flatness of the canvass.

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Expressionism emerged simultaneously in diverse cities beyond Deutschland every bit a response to fears of a loss of authenticity and spirituality.

Reacting against Impressionism, just influenced by Symbolism, the Expressionists focused on communicating spirituality and feeling in art. Drawn simultaneously to primitivism and to modernistic life, they employed distorted imagery and a rich palette to convey profound emotion. Art now came from within the artist, non the external world. On the canvas, swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes revealed turbulent inner states or the mysteries of nature. The movement as well often recorded social criticism of the modern city, depicting alienated modern individuals.

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Futurism was the most important Italian avant-garde art move of the twentieth century arising from interactions with French Cubist ideas and a general desire for progress.

Futurism celebrated advanced technology and urban modernity. Its members wished to destroy older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of mod life - of the machine, speed, violence and change. Although there were some Futurist architects, nearly of its adherents were artists who worked in traditional media such as painting and sculpture, and in an eclectic range of styles.

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Giacomo Balla

Cubism developed in a period of rapid innovation between Picasso and Braque building upon the ideas of Cézanne.

The approach was a radical break and offered a new way of describing space, book and mass with new pictorial devices. More more often than not, it pointed new paths towards abstract art, and suggested ways of describing life in the modern urban world. It abandoned perspective and realistic modeling - representing bodies in minor, tilted planes, set in a shallow infinite. Following the examples of Picasso and Braque, the Salon Cubists used these innovations to create many interesting effects.

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The Suprematist motion grew out of Russian advanced ideas on the office of language and the function and limits of art.

The Suprematists, led by Kazimir Malevich reduced art to its essentials. They devised a radically abstract fine art of simple geometric forms. More often than not expressed through painting, it emphasized the irreducible characteristics of the medium. Inspired by rational inquiry, it sometimes took on a strange, absurdist tone, although its devotion to abstraction made information technology sometimes quite mystical and spiritual. Driven past a goal of totally abstract art the movement searched for the 'zippo degree' of painting, the point beyond which their work could not get without ceasing to exist fine art.

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The creative and literary motility launched in Zurich as a reaction to World War I, it quickly inspired similar groups in Hanover, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, and New York, ending with the ascension of the Surrealism move.

Dada was the first conceptual art movement invoking art as functioning, art as life, and art equally result of audition participation. The focus was on posing difficult questions, sometimes via new tactics such as Marcel Duchamp'due south "readymades" – that forced questions about the extent of artistic creativity and the overall definition of art.

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The Bauhaus fine art school in Weimar, Frg, was founded by Walter Gropius, and promoted a comprehensive and multi-disciplined approach to the arts, encouraging students to practice the visual arts, craft and design, architecture, industrial design, and even typography.

Post-obit the Craft ethos to unite fine and applied arts, inventiveness and manufacturing, art and industrial design, the move put equal shop in course and function, and prepare out to reduce decoration and frills, to rejuvenate design for everyday life. Although a formal school, the proper name became equated with modernistic German language design from the early twentieth century, predating the ascension of the Nazis. The Bauhaus fashion, aka the International Style, was promoted by Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky – many of whom would become influential teachers across the world.

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This movement evolved after the October Revolution of 1917, acting as a lightning rod for the artists that wanted to build a new utopian state.

Constructivism borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, merely aptitude them into a new approach to making objects, one which sought to replace traditional artistic concerns of composition with 'construction.' It stressed the inherent concrete characteristics of materials, rather than any symbolic associations they might support. While seeking to limited the dynamism of the modern earth, and that of the quickly irresolute Russian society, the Constructivists as well hoped to develop ideas that could be put to use in mass product.

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Arising in Paris on some of the ideas of Dada, the Surrealists hoped to access powerful ideas past going beyond conscious idea.

Surrealism shared Dada's anarchic rejection of bourgeois values, and called for a revolution of the mind. Influenced by Freudian theories on the unconscious, dreams, desire, and repression André Breton chosen on artists to bypass reason by accessing their unconscious via automatism or dreams. Each artist relied on personal recurring motifs (Dali's ants or eggs, Ernst'southward bird alter ego). Surrealist works caused daze and sensation due to their content, drawing on myth, primitivism, madness, sexual practice, and desire they intended to jolt viewers out of their comfy notions of reality.

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The most influential movement in post-state of war abstract painting, Abstract Expressionism flourished in New York, establishing America over Paris as the post-war leader of modern fine art.

The Abstract Expressionists such equally Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko were committed to expressing profound emotion and universal themes. Indebted to Surrealism'south exploration of painting as a struggle between self-expression and the unconscious they created a new art for the post World War II world. Their art was championed for being emphatically American in spirit - awe-inspiring in scale, romantic in mood, and expressive of individual freedom.

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Built-in in New York City out of the huge popularity and academism of Abstract Expressionism, the participants of this loose move wanted to open upward the possibilities of art-making that became too stringent.

Artists such equally Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg launched a radical shift in the focus of modern art - from the existential angst of the Abstract Impressionists, to focus on the audition, pop culture, and full general ambivalence. Their aim was to force viewers to collaborate via absurd juxtapositions – taking upwardly Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's premise that what the artist begins, the viewer completes. Neo-Dada used mass media, found objects, performance, and gamble, to eliminate artistic control in favor of the viewer's reading. They mocked and celebrated consumer civilization, united brainchild and realism, and overlooked boundaries through experiments with assemblage and performances.

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These movements accept their roots in the Dada and Constructivist movements, but finally launched at the "Le Mouvement" exhibition in Paris, after which they attracted an international post-obit.

Kinetic art – fine art that depends on movement for its furnishings, and Op art – fine art focused on eyes and visual perceptions - were launched by artists seeking to create more than interactive relationships with the viewer, and new visual experiences. They inspired new kinds of art that went across the boundaries of the traditional, hand-crafted, static object, encouraging the thought that the dazzler of an object could be the product of optical illusions or mechanical movement.

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A major development in abstract painting, it was the first style to avoid the proposition of a class or mass against a background. Instead, figure and ground are one, and the infinite of the picture show, conceived equally a field, seems to spread out beyond the edges of the canvas. Cloudless Greenberg put much of his critical praise into this move, and the related Post-Painterly Abstraction movement.

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The movement developed simultaneously in diverse global cities. Commonly associated to the New York artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein (and their Neo-Dada predecessors), at that place were crucial contributions by London's Independent Grouping and the German language artists Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.

During the post-WWII American consumer commodity boom, Pop's visual vocabulary merged high art and popular civilisation, blending and elevating advertising, celebrity, and cartoons to the status of art. It was coolly ambivalent compared to 'hot' emotion of the Abstract Expressionists that had gone before it. This ambivalence created a subtle commentary on the new popular cultural landscape after the difficult years of The Nifty Depression and war.

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Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was developed past a loosely affiliated group of American painters and sculptors reacting to post-war art, popular culture, and photography.

Disillusioned by concurrent trends in nonrepresentational fine art, artists such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, and Ralph Goings sought to portray objects with greater visual accuracy, relying largely on photographs in their practice and oft depicting American motifs in their work. More broadly, the motility complicated notions of reality by interjecting fantastical or abstracted elements into their otherwise optically precise works. Edifice upon the idea of Pop Art, the motility reintroduced procedure and planning over automatism, and craftsmanship over unconscious improvisation.

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Minimalism was born when a loosely affiliated group of New York-based artists began to question the boundaries between multiple media and to express the bones materiality of art objects.

An approach to art - principally sculptural - which stressed anonymous, industrial manufacturing and austere, geometric forms. Led by articulate spokesmen such as Donald Judd, the motion became a highly self-witting attempt to overturn previous conventions of sculpture, to create objects with simple, indivisible forms, and to refuse the appearance of art.

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This movement is comprised of many tendencies that all focused on expanding the boundaries of current fine art and developed simultaneously across the world in the Usa, Latin America, and Europe.

Following the advanced ethos of Cubism, Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art the motion claimed all art is conceptual, prizing ideas and communication over material or visual components. Influenced past the simplicity of Minimalism, artists rejected conventions of sculpture and painting to reduce the actual fabric to a minimum – the "dematerialization" of art. Many eschewed objects altogether, others created a diverse output from maps and plant objects to texts and photographs, performances, happenings, and ephemera. It is also a critique of the institution of fine art – raising the thought that aesthetics, expression, skill, and marketability were irrelevant.

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The Italian Arte Povera movement was an artist collective taking a radical stance against all established modes of artistic taste, to promote ideas of a new art, costless from convention.

In their mutual stance against a marketplace-driven fine art world and reasserting the importance of personal expression, artists such equally Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, and Michelangelo Pistoletto proficient painting, embroidery, conceptual art, and performance, using simple, artisanal materials in contrast to consumer culture. Such "poor" materials borrowed from and referred to uncomplicated objects from everyday life.

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Alighiero Boetti

This broad movement describes a collection of reactions against the abstraction, austerity, and ceremonial of the Minimalist style.

Post-Minimalism extended the ideas of the previous move: procedure artists pushed further its interests in the materiality of sculpture; adult large, earth-based works; and feminist artists reintroduced qualities of emotional expression. Some practitioners shared in the Minimalist involvement in abstraction and materiality, still rejected industrial materials in favor of more expressive sculptures that convey personal emotions.

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Vito Acconci

Although performance has been a part of advanced art through many styles, in the postal service-modernist world Performance fine art was picked up and gained currency by Feminist artists and other conceptual creators.

Performance art is presented "live," by the artist, with collaborators or performers. Disenchanted with conventional media such as painting and sculpture, artists sought to claiming and rejuvenate visual art, access new audiences and test new ideas using elements from work, sport, ritual, and trip the light fantastic toe. The movement extended the "action painting" of the Abstract Expressionists - the object no longer paint on sheet just something else, often the artist's own trunk. This led to the employ of the body to make personal statement equally seen in Feminist Fine art and anti-war activism.

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Neo-Expressionism started with Georg Baselitz'due south return to painting as an avant-garde art form. Many artists followed past creating challenging works later on many years of claims that painting is "dead".

Disaffected with the intellectualism of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, it reasserted the creative ability of the individual and the sensuousness of painting with textural, expressive brushwork and intense colors – a render from stylistically absurd, sparseness. This took place simultaneously throughout the world and was marked by interests in primitivism, graffiti, and the revival of narrative. The works of Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, and Jean-Michel Basquiat are marked by a sense of the mythological, cultural, historical, nationalist, and erotic.

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Known for their gritty urban field of study thing, nighttime palette, and gestural brushwork, this loosely knit group of artists based in New York City played a crucial role in the 1913 Armory Show that introduced American audiences to European modernism.

In opposition to the American Impressionism that had preceded it, the Ashcan schoolhouse captured modern life in New York'due south immigrant and working-form communities. They painted from direct experience, in scenes of people walking in parks, bars, and vaudeville reviews. Their vigorous paint application and the immediacy of execution, gave their canvases a sketchy, lively quality. Artists such as Robert Henri, George Lucs, and John Sloan sought new forms of Realism to draw the rapid and keen changes in urban life, commercial culture, and codes of social contact.

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Robert Henri

George Luks

This Dutch movement arose in response to World War I, and conceived of fine art as a social and spiritual redemption, a universal visual language for a new world.

Reacting against the over-decorative Art Deco style, De Stijl artists eliminated representation in an abstract, pared-downwardly artful which worked in a visual linguistic communication of geometric forms and primary colors. Piet Mondrian was influenced by the mystic ideas of Theosophy, while Theo van Doesburg's journal, De Stijl advocated the fusion of class and function as the ultimate mode - encompassing painting and sculpture, industrial blueprint, architecture and typography, influencing the Bauhaus and the International Mode.

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Vilmos Huzcar

The motility introduced site-specificity to the fine art world using natural spaces and materials such every bit stones, h2o, gravel, and soil. Influenced by prehistoric artworks such as Stonehenge, structures such equally Robert Smithson'south Screw Jetty (1970) explored unprecedented scale and exposed art to the elements identifying new concepts such as natural disuse. Earth Art reflects the monumentality and simplicity of Minimalist objects, blended with Mail-Minimalist tendencies such as process, installation, and performance art. In rejecting the commoditization of art, the movement challenged the idea of art beingness owned or displayed for profit in institutions, museums, or private homes.

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The movement emerged in the tardily 1960s amidst anti-war protests and a growing phone call for equality in demands for civil, gay, and women's rights.

Feminist artists sought to transform stereotypes, drawing from Conceptual art to make the viewer question the social and political landscape, and thus incite modify. They adopted non-traditional media, using fabric, fiber, operation, video, and alternative venues to revolutionize thinking about female fine art and artists. By promoting the visibility of female person artists, artists such as Judy Chicago and Barbara Kruger provided new perspectives to the male-dominated established precedents in the visual arts.

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The move covers a loose international group of artists, poets, and musicians, demanding social and economic change in the art world.

The goal was to destroy any purlieus between fine art and life, reinvigorating Futurist and Dadaist ideas on fine art equally life, and art for the masses. In the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus used sense of humour to mock the elitist world of "high art," merely underneath lay a serious desire to modify what, and who, constituted "fine art." Fusing Conceptual art, Minimalism, music, and poesy their aim to bring art to all involved the viewer, and in works such equally Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964-1966) participation and adventure are vital components, encapsulating the conventionalities in art equally a creative procedure, not an end product.

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Ben Vautier

Alison Knowles

The motion emerged in mail service-World War II Nippon, in a new era of liberty, replacing the totalitarian regime which had stifled private expression.

The artists rejected representational art and put concept over form, their fine art making was operation, involving painting, installation, and theatrical events. The artists connected thing (pigment, chemicals, tar, mud, h2o) and activity (breaking, exploding, violent, dripping). Conceptual in nature, viewers could imagine multiple potential meanings. Gutai's artists used their new creative freedom to network internationally, collaborating with artists in Europe and America, including in Allan Kaprow's Happenings.

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Kazuo Shiraga

Atsuko Tanaka

Shozo Shimamoto

Artists turned to performance as a reaction against the aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism and the social changes of the belatedly 1950s.

Happenings, led by Allan Kaprow, drew from Futurist and Dadaist ideas of painting, poetry, music, dance, and theatre as a live activity requiring the participation of the audience. Happenings could exist big or small, simply each audience fellow member had a unique encounter as part of the functioning and was thus involved in the art making process. Every bit there was no fine art 'object' these performances challenged conventional views of art. Sound was a key component, building on the work of John Cage, with important participants such every bit Robert Rauschenberg and George Brecht that created Happenings throughout the 1960s. However, by the early 1970s the characterization had been consumed by the term Performance Art.

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Robert Whitman

Dick Higgins

Viennese Actionists believed Austria was suppressing memories of war atrocities by the Nazis and wanted to face this trauma head-on via fine art.

Theirs was a violent, explicit, performance fine art collaboratively staged, filmed, and photographed. Vienna was the home of Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, and in their "actions" they wanted to employ performance to bewitch post-war trauma. Performances might involve claret, urine, milk, entrails, sex, nudity, mock-crucifixions or disemboweled animal cadavers. They also involved breaking the law, and indeed Hermann Nitsch was imprisoned for masturbating and enacting vehement sexual scenes in public settings.

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Gunter Brus

Otto Muehl

Rudolf Schwarzkogler

Influenced by advertising, tv and the increasingly epitome-led mass media, this loose amalgamation of artists explored contemporary photo and video images.

Though many artists had been formally trained in painting and sculpture, The Pictures artists worked in unorthodox ways - examining composition in image production via photography and video. Artists such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince composed images with conceptual frameworks which enabled them to explore icons and stereotypes while reworking images. Their use of cribbing and montage blurred the lines between high art and pop images. This questioning of the relationship between originals and reproductions put the artists at the middle of the postmodern contend on authenticity and authorship.

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This loosely-affiliated grouping of painters, sculptors, installation, and video artists met while studying Fine Art at London'due south Goldsmith'south Higher, mounting one of the most shocking exhibits of the late twentieth century: Freeze (1988).

The Young Brits often used daze tactics with tearing and pornographic images, achieving instant notoriety. Media savvy, the YBAs focus on spectacle was emphasized by the buy and promotion of their works by the advertising mogul Charles Saatchi. Their Awareness exhibition (1997) featured Damien Hirst's infamous shark, a Marcus Harvey portrait of a child murderer using children's handprints, and Chris Ofili's Portrait of the Virgin Mary using elephant dung, provoking international debates on the role and responsibleness of art.

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