Art Movements
People organize complexity to make it manageable. Like any organizational scheme, this one is approximate. Some of these movements were carefully defined by the artists in them such as CoBrA or El Paso; some such as Abstract Expressionism or the Bay Area Figurative Style are based on groupings made by critics, curators, or historians. Many artists are listed in more than one school; not all works by an artist need be in a single pigeon hole.
Select to view artists 1945     to     present

Saint Ives Painters  1945 -  1960
Abstract Expressionism c 1945 - c 1962
Spazialismo  1947 - c 1958
CoBrA  1948 -  1951
Dau al Set  1948 -  1956
Bay Area Figurative Style c 1948 - c 1965
Art Informel c 1950 - c 1959
Gutai c 1950 - c 1960
Neo-Dada c 1955 - c 1965
Color Field Painting c 1955 - c 1968
Chicago Imagism c 1955 - c 1979
El Paso  1957 -  1960
Group Zero  1957 - c 1960
Situationalism  1957 -  1972
Actionism / Direct Art c 1957 - c 1976
Nouveau Realism c 1958 - c 1965
Hard Edge Abstraction c 1958 - c 1969
Pop Art c 1958 - c 1969
Snapshot Aesthetic c 1958 - c 1979
Happening c 1960 - c 1965
Fluxus c 1960 - c 1969
Shaped Canvas c 1960 - c 1969
Antipodean Group c 1960 - c 1970
Minimalism c 1960 - c 1975
Copy Art c 1960 - c 1979
School of London c 1960 - c 1989
Op Art c 1962 - c 1968
Los Angeles "Look" c 1962 - c 1969
New Realism c 1963 - c 1979
Conceptualism and its Posterity c 1963 - c 1979
Earth Art c 1963 - c 1979
Computer Art c 1963 -  1998
Video Art c 1963 -  1998
Process Art c 1965 - c 1973
Photo-Realism c 1965 - c 1975
Funk Art c 1965 - c 1975
Art and Technology c 1965 - c 1975
Arte Povera c 1965 - c 1979
Performance Art c 1967 - c 1979
Body Art c 1967 - c 1979
Light-and-Space Art c 1968 - c 1979
Feminist Art c 1968 -  1998
"Bad" Painting c 1970 - c 1979
Sound Art c 1970 - c 1979
Media Art c 1970 -  1998
Installation c 1970 -  1998
Sots Art c 1972 - c 1990
New Image c 1974 - c 1983
Pattern and Decoration c 1974 - c 1983
Manipulated Photography c 1974 -  1998
Fabricated Photography c 1974 -  1998
Graffiti Art c 1975 - c 1985
Neo-Expressionism c 1978 - c 1985
Transavantgarde c 1978 - c 1985
Mulheimer Freiheit  1979 -  1983
Appropriation c 1980 - c 1989
East Village Art  1981 -  1987
Neo-Geo c 1983 - c 1987
Pathetic Art c 1985 -  1998
Online Art c 1992 -  1998
Scatter Art c 1992 -  1998