Category
page 1Contemporary art movements

pop art
art movement
Minimalism
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement

performance art
art using the actions of an artist or other participants (not to be confused with performing arts)
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
land art
form of art creation in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked

Tachisme
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thumb|160px|Serge Poliakoff Composition: Gray and Red, 1964

photorealism
thumb|upright=1.3|''John's Diner with John's Chevelle'', 2007. John Baeder, oil on canvas, 30×48 inches

vaporwave
hyperrealism
art movement

neo-expressionism
Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Transavantgarde, Junge Wilde or Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term). It is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.
action painting
style of painting
Arte Povera
Italian art movement
Informalism
thumb|Painting by Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer
postmodern art
art movement
Neo-Dada
Neo-Dada was an art movement with audio, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork. It sought to close the gap between art and daily life, and was a combination of playfulness, iconoclasm, and appropriation. In the United States the term was popularized by Barbara Rose in the 1960s and refers primarily, although not exclusively, to work created in that and the preceding decade. There was also an international dimension to the movement, particularly in Japan and in Europe, serving as the foundation of Fluxus, Pop Art and Nouveau réali
Nouveau réalisme
artist group and art movement
geometric abstraction
form of abstract art involving geometry

Stuckism
Stuckism () is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. By May 2017, the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries.
mail art
art movement coined in the 1960s
neo-futurism
Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture.
lyrical abstraction
art movement

maximalism
thumb|Studio Job Headquarters, [[Antwerp, Belgium, by Job Smeets, 2018]]
thumb|Vans (brand)|Vans Half Cab 33 DX 30th Anniversary shoes, an example of maximalist design
In the arts, maximalism is an aesthetic characterized by excess and abundance, serving as a reaction against minimalism. The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist principle of "less is more".
computer art
art genre in which computers are used as a main tool in the creative process
Viennese Actionism
Austrian short-lived art movement
Gutai group
Japanese art group
postminimalism
Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 and used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism. The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts, but can refer to any field using minimalism as a critical reference point.
In music, postminimalism refers to music following minimal music.
relational art
tendency in fine art
process art
art in which the process of creating it becomes the subject matter
Sots Art
artistic movement

Superflat
Superflat is a postmodern art movement, founded by Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, which is influenced by manga and anime. However, superflat does not have an explicit definition because Takashi Murakami does not want to limit the movement, but rather leave room for it to grow and evolve over time.
Lowbrow
art movement arose in Los Angeles, California
Post-painterly Abstraction
Term coined by art critic Clement Greenberg
institutional critique
artistic theme
feminist art movement
efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce art that reflects women's lives and experiences
Remodernism
thumb|upright|Show, The Stuckists: The First Remodernist Art Group, to launch the book of the same name. London EC1, March 2001.
Remodernism is a stuckist philosophical movement aimed at reviving aspects of modernism, particularly in its early form, in a manner that both follows after and contrasts against postmodernism. The movement was initiated in 2000 by stuckists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, with a manifesto, Remodernism in an attempt to introduce a period of new "spirituality" into art, culture and society to replace postmodernism, which they said was cynical and spiritually bankr
anti-monumentalism
Anti-monumentalism (or counter-monumentalism) is a tendency in contemporary art that intentionally challenges every aspect (form, subject, meaning, etc.) of traditional public monuments. It has been defined as art designed "not to uphold but negate sacred values". Anti-monumentalism claims to deny the presence of any imposing, authoritative social force in public spaces.
Cyborg art
Sculpture Island Park
Sculptoric park in Pontevedra, Spain
Systems art
art influenced by cybernetics and systems theory
installation art
art genre of (often large-scale) three-dimensional artworks in an space or environment
Modular art
art created by joining together standardized units (modules) to form larger,
art intervention
type of artistic interaction
Signalism
thumb|right|Symbol of Signalism
Signalism (; from ) represents an international neo-avant-garde literary and art movement. It gathered wider support base both in former Yugoslavia and the world in the late 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.
endurance art
kind of performance art involving hardship
Late modernism
Term for art and literature produced after 1945
Superstroke
Superstroke is a term used for a contemporary art movement with its origins in South Africa. Superstroke is one of the influential art movements regarding African modernism and abstraction. The word "Superstroke" implies the super expressive brush stroke. The Superstroke art movement was initially founded as a reaction to the impact that the Superflat art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami had on modern contemporary art.
queer art
art genre or movement
Funk art
American art movement
cybernetic art
contemporary art form
Modern sculpture
Era of sculpture beginning with Auguste Rodin