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.
Academic art 17th – 19th Century
Aestheticism c. 1860 – 1900
American Barbizon school c. 1850 – 1890s
Art Nouveau c. 1890 – 1910
Arts and Crafts movement c. 1880 – 1920
Barbizon school c. 1830 – 1870
Exoticism 18th – 19th Century
Fin de siècle c. 1880 – 1914
Hudson River School c. 1825 – 1870s
Incoherents 1882 – 1896
Japonisme c. 1858 – 1900
Jugendstil c. 1895 – 1910
Naive art 19th Century – Present
Neoclassicism c. 1760 – 1850
New Sculpture 1880 – 1910
Patna School of Painting c. 1760 – early 20th Century
Pre-Raphaelitism c. 1848 – 1890s
Private Press 1890s – 1930s
Qajar art 1789 – 1925
Realism c. 1840 – 1880s
Rococo c. 1730 – 1760s
Romanticism c. 1780 – 1850
Symbolism c. 1880 – 1910
Tonalism c. 1880 – 1915
Young Poland 1890 – 1918
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
Chosŏnhwa 1948 – Present
Dansaekhwa 1970s
Japanese art Ancient – Present
Mingei 1926 – 1960s
Northern landscape style 10th – 12th Century
Qinglü shanshui Tang Dynasty – Present
Rinpa school 17th – 19th Century
Shanshui 5th Century – Present
Shin hanga early 20th Century (1915–1960s)
Sōsaku hanga early 20th Century (1904–1960s)
Southern School Ming & Qing Dynasties
Ukiyo-e c. 1660s – 1867 (mid-Edo onward)
Zhe school Ming Dynasty (14th – 16th Century)