Art History Guide

Abstract Impressionism is an art movement originating in New York City in the 1940’s. This was the first American movement to gain worldwide...

Art Deco was introduced in the 1920’s and reigned through the 1930’s, encompassing both the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. It is...

The Art Nouveau movement occurred in the late 19th century from about 1894 to 1914, and was represented in Europe as well as in the United S...

The Arts and Crafts Movement became popular in the 1870’s and was first introduced to America through the Gothic Revival as well as through ...

The Baroque movement originated in Italy in the late1500’s (spanning through to the 1700’s) and was later accepted by France, Germany, Nethe...

The Bauhaus movement is a school of art, architecture and design characterized by geometric design, respect for practical material, and its ...

Body art is extremely popular all over the world and includes anything that consists of the human body. Some of the most popular types of bo...

The Byzantine art movement was active from the 5th century AD to 1453 during the time when the Byzantine Empire was dominant. The period was...

Classicism is the art movement founded on aesthetic attitudes based on the art, literature and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. The movem...

Color field paintings are defined by solid areas of color that cover the whole canvas. Artists that embraced this style were Mark Rothko (19...

Constructivism was a movement that was active from 1915 to the 1940’s. It was a movement created by the Russian avant-garde, but quickly spr...

Cubism was sparked in 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and is one of the most potent art movements of the 20th century. The cubists...

The Dada art movement reigned from about 1916 to 1920 mainly in the countries of France, Germany and Switzerland. The Dadaism movement was b...

The De Stijl, literally translated as “the style” was an art movement founded by architect by architect and painter Theo van Deosburg in 191...

The Der Blaue Reiter movement was a German expressionist art period lasting from 1911 to 1914. The name Der Blaue Reiter was taken from one ...

Expressionism encompasses the art movement that existed from 1905 to 1925. Expressionism is characterized by distortion and exaggeration in ...

Fantasy art is historically rooted in mythology, folklore and religion from all over the globe. Fantasy art is a universal language that con...

Fauvism was the first of the major avant-garde movement in European twentieth century art. Fauvism is characterized by intensely vivid, unna...

The Fluxus movement originated in the 1960’s in New York, later spreading to Japan and New York. The movement’s style reduces gestures and m...

The Futurism movement, ranging from 1909 to 1944, originated in Italy as an avant-garde movement that took technology, speed and modernity a...

Origins of the word ‘graffiti’ Graffiti is a style of art made on both public and private surfaces, prevalent in low income areas of cities,...

In the early nineteen hundreds there were a group of Canadian painters that began noticing similar style in one another’s works. These artis...

Body art has always been popular culturally and artistically, and in recent years body art styles such as henna tattoo body painting has exp...

The Impressionist movement originated in France in the 19th century and lasted from 1867 to 1886. Impressionists broke from traditional Euro...

The Mannerism period started in 1520 and ended in 1600 – it was an art style that depicted the human form in exaggerated poses, in unrealist...