Modern Art Movements -- AWT4

An Informal List of Some Modern Art Movements & Artists from the 20^th Century

Listed are some major modern art movements, the decade in which they first gained prominence, and some artists associated with them. A few major artists are listed in their own right, not as part of any particular movement.

Source: Wall Exhibit at the Tate Modern, London, August 2006. My apologies for misspellings and misinterpretations!

Late 19^th Century

Art Nouveau

Degas

Monet

Symbolism – Munch, Ensor, Redon

Post-Impressionism – Gaugiun, Cezanne, van Gogh

Vienna Secession – Gustav Klimt, Hoffman

Rodin

Les Nabis – Viullard, Bonnard

1900-1910

The Photo-Secession – Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Gertrude Kasebier

Fauvism – Matisse, de Vlaminck, Derain

Die Bruck – Kirchner

Expressionism – Schiele, Barlach, Nolde

Cubism – Picasso, Leger, Braque, Lipschitz

Futurism – Balla, Marinetti, Boccioni

1910-1920

School of Paris – Chagall, Goncharova, Modigliani

Orphism – Delaunay

Vorticism – Bomberg, Lewis, Epstein

Suprematism – Malevich

Blaue Reiter – Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Klee

Constructivism – Tatlin, Lissitzky

Dada – Hoch, Scgwitters, Tzara, Taeuber, Duchamps

De Stijl

Bauhaus – Albers, Gropius

1920-1930

Mexican Murals – Sigueiros, Orozco, Rivera

New Objectivity – Dix, Backmann, Grosz

Surrealism – Man Ray, Dali, Magritte, Masson, Miro, anguy, Calder, Arp, Tanning, Breton, Ernst Lam

1930-1940

Group f/64 – Ansel Adams, Edwad Weston, Willard van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham

American Social Realist Photography – Ben Schan, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke White

Harlem Renaissance – Lawrence, Bearden

Socialist Realism – Fougeron, Taslitzky, Guttuso

Unit One – Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash

British Surrealist Group – Penrose, Nash, Agar, Wadsworth, Read

Photo-Journalism – Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capra, Lee Miller

Hopper

Balthus

Manuel Alverez, Frida Ka…

1940-1950

St Ives School – Lanyon, Nicholson

Abstract Expressionism – Pollock, de Kooming, Kline, Still, Motherwell, Rothko, Smith, Gorky, Newman, Krasner

Art Informel Wols, Michaux, Burri, Fautrier

COBRA – Jorn, Corneille, Agrgrel, Doltrer

1950-1960

Happenings – Cage, Kaprow, Manzoni, Cunningham

New York Photography – Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Rudy Burchhardt, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand

Neo-Concrete Group – Clark, Oiticica

Neo-Dada – Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenberg

Pop Art – Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Richard Artschwager, Roy Lichtenstein, Eduardo Paolozzi, James Rosenquist, Patrick Caulfield

Situationalist International – Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem

Hard Edge Painting – Reinhardt, Stella, Kelly

1960-1970

Nouveau Realisme - Yves Klein, Cesar, Arman, Tinguely, de Saint Phalle, Spoerri

Vienna Actionism – Nitsch

Fluxus – Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, George Maciunas

Minimalism – Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Richard serra, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Carl Andre

School of London – Leon Kossoff Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, R B Kitaj, Lucian Freud

Arte Povera – Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Guiseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto

Post-Painterly Abstraction – Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Anthony Caro, Brice Marden

Land Art – Robert Smithson, Hamish Fulton, Richard Long

1970-1980

Conceptual Art – Hans Haacke, Joseph Kosuth, Marcel Broodthaers, On Kawara, Michael Craig-Martin, Bruce Nauman, Art and Language, Lawrence Weiner

Body Art – Rebecca Horne, Bob Flanagan, Chris Burden, Ana Mendieta, Gina Pane

Feminism – Mary Kelly, Guerrilla Girls, Judy Chicago, Lynda Benglis, Barbara Kruger, Hannah Wilke, Linda Benglis, Martha Rosler

Performance Art – Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, Yayoi Kusama, Gutai Group, Bruce Mclean, Joan Jonas, Gilbert & George, Vito Accomci

Conceptual Photography – Victor Burgin, Cindy Sherman, Dan Graham, Ed Ruscha

Photo-Realism – Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Malcom Morley, Paul McCarthy

1980-1990

Graffiti Art – Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sean Scully, Agnes Martin

Neo-Expressionism – Julian Schnabel, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Francesco Clemente

Video and Film – Bill Viola, Peter Halley, Jeff Wall, Sherri Levine, Gary Hill, Willie Doherty

Black Art Movement – Keith Piper, Donald Rodney, Eddie Chambers

New British Sculpture – Richard Wentworth, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Shirazeh Houshiary, Alison Wilding

1990-2006

Dusseldorf School of Photography – Candida Hofer, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff

Installation – Gabriel Orozco, Kiza Kabakov, Cildon Meireler, Julian Munoz, Olafur Eliasson, Mike Kelley, Michael Landy, Lothar Baumgarten, Maurizio Cattelan