Art Movements

A 1920s style characterized by setbacks, zigzag forms, and the use of chrome and plastic ornamentation.

• Impressionism

• Art Deco

• Beaux Arts

• Constructivism

A further development of Collage, Cubism, and Dada, this 20th-century movement stressed the weird, the fantastic and the dream world of the subconscious.

• Op Art

• Expressionism

• Surrealism

• Art Deco

Late 19th-century French school dedicated to defining transitory visual impressions painted directly from nature, with light and color of primary importance.

• Realism

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Art Deco

European art and architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Giovanni Bernini, a major exponent of the style, believed in the union of the arts of architecture, painting, and sculpture.

• Beaux Arts

• Baroque

• Classicism

• Rococo

American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized form and color within a nonrepresentational framework.

• Constructivism

• Abstract Expressionism

• Neo-impressionism

• Art Deco

The 1960s movement known as Optical Painting, characterized by geometrical forms that create an optical illusion in which the eye is required to blend the colors at a certain distance.

• Neo-impressionism

• Baroque

• Constructivism

• Op Art

A development in mid-19th-century France led by Gustave Courbet, its aim was to depict the customs, ideas, and appearances of the time using scenes from everyday life.

• Realism

• Impressionism

• Expressionism

• Dada

A 20th-century European art movement that stressed the expression of emotion and the inner vision of the artist rather than the exact representation of nature.

• Baroque

• Expressionism

• Realism

• Neo-impressionism

A product of the turbulent and cynical post-World War I period, this anti-art movement extolled the irrational, the absurd, the nihilistic, and the nonsensical.

• Classicism

• Abstract Expressionism

• Beaux Arts

• Dada

Elaborate and formal architectural style characterized by symmetry and an abundance of sculptured ornamentation.

• Realism

• Cubism

• Beaux Arts

• Op Art