An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted (usually a few months, years or decades). Art movements were especially important in modern art, where each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde. Movements have almost entirely disappeared in contemporary art, where individualism and diversity prevail. Dejeuner sur lHerbe by Pablo Picasso At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893 I and the Village by Marc Chagall, 1911 Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917 Campbells Soup Cans 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

The term refers to tendencies in visual art, novel ideas and architecture, and sometimes literature. In music it is more common to speak about genres and styles instead. See also cultural movement, a term with a broader connotation. Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... Section of the dome of Florence Cathedral. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... // Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ... Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. ...

Because the names of many art movements use the -ism suffix (for example cubism and futurism), they are sometimes referred to as isms. Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist villa in Prague, Czech Republic Cubist house in Prague, Czech Republic Cubist House of the Black Madonna, Prague, Czech Republic Cubism was a 20th century art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. ... Futurism was a 20th century art movement. ...

See also

• List of art movements
• Art periods
• Art history
• History of painting
• Cultural movements
• Literary movements
• Musical movements

This is a list of art movements. ... An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement. ... This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... // The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. ... A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. ...

External links

• Tangled Helix blog
• 20th-Century Art Compiled by Dr.Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.

• WebMuseum, Paris Themes index and detailed glossary of art periods.
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6