1900 - 2000

Vitruvian Man, Study of proportions, from Vitruvius's De Architectura, 1492 Leonardo da Vinci Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice [ Photo by Art Renewal Center ]

• Modern Sculpture
  
  
• Expressionism
  Primarily Germany, and Austria, first decade of 20th century
  
  
• Cubism
  see also: Cubism ⁴
  France, ca. 1907
  
  
• Futurism ⁴
  Italy, 1908
  
  
• Šcole de Paris ⁴
  School of Paris; France, ca. 1910
  
  
• Neue Sachlichkeit ⁴
  New objectivity; Germany, late 1910s
  
  
• Orphism ⁴ France, ca. 1912
  
  
• Suprematism ⁴
  Russia, ca. 1914
  
  
• Dadaism
  see also: Dada ⁴
  New York and Western Europe, ca. 1915
  
  
• Neo-Plasticism
  see also: De Stijl ⁴
  The style; Holland, 1917 [Neo-Plasticism (meaning "a new plastic art")]
  
  
• Constructivism ⁴
  Russia, ca. 1918
  
  
• Purism ⁴
  France, 1918
  
  
• Bauhaus ⁴
  Germany, 1919
  
  
  
• Art Deco
  1920's to 1930's
  
  
• Surrealism
  see also: Surrealism ⁴
  Primarily France, ca. 1924
  
  
• Abstract_Expressionism
  see also: Abstract Expressionism ⁴
  New York, ca. 1940
  
  
• Art Brut ⁴
  Raw art; France, ca. 1950
  
  
• Art Informel ⁴
  "Unformed" art; Europe, 1950s
  
  
• Neo-Dada ⁴
  International, 1950s
  
  
• Post-painterly abstraction ⁴
  U.S. and Canada, mid-1950s
  
  
• Post-painterly abstraction ⁴
  U.S. and Canada, mid-1950s
  
  
• Hard-edge painting ⁴
  U.S., late 1950s
  
  
• Nouveau Realisme ⁴
  New realism; Paris, late 1950s
  
  
• Pop_Art
  see also: Pop art ⁴
  Great Britain and U.S., 1950s
  
  
  
• Op Art
  (Optical Art) 1950's to 1960's
  
  
• Happenings ⁴
  U.S. and Europe, 1959
  
  
• Minimalism
  see also: Minimalism ⁴
  New York, 1960s
  
  
  
• Photorealism
  1960's to 1970's
  
  
• Arte Povera ⁴
  Poor or impoverished art; Italy, mid-1960s
  
  
• Process art ⁴
  U.S. and Europe, mid-1960s
  
  
• Site-specific art/Environmental art ⁴
  Pioneered in U.S., and international, mid-1960s
  
  
• Performance ⁴
  International; late 1960s
  
  
• Conceptual art ⁴
  International, ca. 1966
  
  
• Post-Minimalism ⁴
  beginning in the late 1960s against Minimalism
  
  
• Neo-Conceptualism ⁴
  U.S. and Europe, late 1970s
  
  
• Neo-Expressionism ⁴
  New York, Italy, and West Germany, late 1970s