Art Movements Influence Map

Catalogs 214 movements across seven eras, tracing how artistic ideas from cave paintings to digital art directly shaped one another. Instead of isolated chapters, this index maps lines of creative inheritance. Click any movement to explore key artists, artworks, and historical context.
Abstract art c. 1910 – Present American Impressionism c. 1880 – 1920 American realism c. 1880 – 1950s American Scene Painting 1920s – 1940s Analytical art 1910s – 1930s Arbeitsrat für Kunst 1918 – 1921 Art Deco c. 1910s – 1939 Art photography late 19th Century – Present Ashcan School c. 1890s – 1920s Australian Tonalism 1910s – 1930s Bauhaus 1919 – 1933 Bengal School of Art c. 1905 – 1940s Berlin Secession 1898 – 1933 Cloisonnism c. 1888 – 1894 Concrete art 1930 – Present Constructivism 1915 – 1930s Crystal Cubism 1915 – 1920 Cubism c. 1907 – 1920s Cubo-Futurism 1912 – 1915 Dada 1916 – 1924 De Stijl 1917 – 1931 Expressionism c. 1905 – 1930s Fauvism 1904 – 1910 Futurism 1909 – 1944 Geometric abstract art c. 1910 – Present Harlem Renaissance 1918 – 1937 Heidelberg School c. 1886 – 1900 Impressionism c. 1860s – 1890s Les Nabis 1888 – 1900 Magic realism 1925 – Present Metaphysical painting 1910 – 1920 Modernism c. 1860s – 1970s Neo-Fauvism c. 1925 – 1930 Neo-primitivism 1908 – 1913 Neo-romanticism 1930s – 1950s New Objectivity 1920s – 1933 Northwest School 1930s – 1950s Objective abstraction 1933 – 1936 Orphism c. 1912 – 1914 Panfuturism 1914 – 1930s Paris School c. 1905 – 1950 Plein Air c. 1840s – Present Pointillism c. 1886 – 1900 Post-Impressionism c. 1886 – 1905 Precisionism 1920s – 1930s Primitivism late 19th Century – early 20th Century Purism 1918 – 1925 Rayonism 1910 – 1914 Regionalism 1930s San Ildefonso school c. 1910 – 1930s Socialist realism 1932 – 1980s Studio style 1932 – 1960s Sumatraism 1920s Suprematism 1913 – 1920s Surrealism 1924 – 1960s Synchromism 1912 – 1924 Synthetism c. 1888 – 1895 Vienna Secession c. 1897 – 1918 Vorticism 1914 – 1917
Abstract expressionism 1943 – 1965 Abstract illusionism 1970s – Present Action painting 1940s – 1960s Afrofuturism 1990s – Present Altermodern 2009 – Present Antipodeans 1959 – 1965 Art & Language 1968 – Present Art Brut c. 1945 – Present Art Informel 1943 – 1950s Arte Povera 1967 – 1972 Assemblage 1950s – Present Auto-destructive art 1959 – 1970s Bacone school 1935 – 1980s Black Arts Movement 1965 – 1975 Brutalism 1950s – 1970s Classical Realism 1982 – Present COBRA 1948 – 1951 Color Field 1940s – 1960s Conceptual art c. 1960s – Present Context art 1990s – Present Cynical realism 1989 – Present Dakar School 1960s – 1980s Dau-al-Set 1948 – 1956 Deconstructivism late 1980s – Present Ecological Art 1960s – Present Environmental art 1960s – Present Excessivism 2015 – Present Fantastic realism 1946 – Present Feminist art late 1960s – Present Figuration Libre early 1980s Fluxus 1960s – 1970s Funk art mid-1960s – 1970s Graffiti c. 1970 – Present Gutai group 1954 – 1972 Happening 1958 – 1970s Hurufiyya 1940s – Present Hypermodernism 1990s – Present Hyperrealism 2000s – Present Institutional critique late 1960s – Present International Typographic Style 1950s – 1960s Kinetic art 1950s – Present Kinetic Pointillism 1980s – Present Kitsch movement 1998 – Present Land art late 1960s – Present Les Automatistes 1942 – 1954 Letterism 1945 – 1960s Light and Space 1960s – Present Lowbrow late 1970s – Present Lyco art late 20th Century – Present Lyrical abstraction 1945 – Present Mail art 1960s – Present Makonde art 1950s – Present Massurrealism 1992 – Present Maximalism 1970s – Present Minimalism early 1960s – Present Modular constructivism 1950s – 1980s Neo-Dada 1952 – 1970 Neo-expressionism late 1970s – 1980s Neogeo (art) 1986 – 1990s Neoism 1979 – 1990s Nuclear art 1951 – 1960 Nueva Figuración c. 1960s – 1970 Op Art 1960s Photorealism late 1960s – Present Plasticien 1955 – 1970s Pop art 1950s – 1970s Postminimalism late 1960s – 1970s Process art mid-1960s – 1970s Progressive Art Movement 1947 – 1956 Psychedelic art late 1960s – 1970s Rasquache 1960s – Present Remodernism 2000 – Present Retrofuturism 1983 – Present Samikshavad 1974 – Present Serial art 1960s Shock art late 20th Century – Present Site-specific art mid-1970s – Present Sots art 1972 – 1990s Space art 1940s – Present Street art 1980s – Present Stuckism 1999 – Present Superflat 2000s – Present Tachisme 1940s – 1950s Temporary art 1960s – Present Tingatinga 1968 – Present Toyism 1992 – Present Transgressive art 1970s – Present Underground comix 1960s – 1970s Vancouver School 1980s – Present Verdadism 1992 – Present Viennese Actionism 1960 – 1971 Women's Art Movement 1970s – Present Young British Artists late 1980s – 1990s