Art Movements

1960s to NOW

Explore 19 major art movements that shaped contemporary culture. From Pop Art's rebellion against Abstract Expressionism to today's digital innovations.

Pop Art

Pop Art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and 60s, drawing inspiration from popular culture, mass media, and everyday objects.

  • Claes Oldenburg
  • Andy Warhol
  • James Rosenquist
  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Tom Wesselmann

Minimalism

Minimalism is a style that reduces art to its most essential forms, often using geometric shapes and industrial materials.

  • Donald Judd
  • Sol LeWitt
  • Agnes Martin
  • Dan Flavin
  • Carl Andre

Conceptual Art

Conceptual Art prioritizes the idea or concept behind the artwork over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.

  • Joseph Kosuth
  • Sol LeWitt
  • Hanne Darboven
  • John Baldessari
  • Lawrence Weiner

Performance Art

Performance Art is a genre in which art is presented "live," typically by the artist but sometimes with collaborators or performers.

  • Marina Abramović
  • Chris Burden
  • Vito Acconci
  • Carolee Schneemann
  • Yoko Ono

Land Art / Earthworks

Land Art or Earthworks are large-scale art projects that use the natural landscape as their medium.

  • Robert Smithson
  • Michael Heizer
  • Walter De Maria
  • Nancy Holt
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Photorealism

Photorealism is a painting style that aims to create images that are as realistic and detailed as photographs.

  • Robert Bechtle
  • Audrey Flack
  • Ralph Goings
  • Richard Estes
  • Chuck Close

Postminimalism

Postminimalism is an artistic trend that emerged in the late 1960s, reacting to and extending the ideas of Minimalism.

  • Eva Hesse
  • Richard Serra
  • Lynda Benglis
  • Robert Morris
  • Bruce Nauman

Neo-Expressionism

Neo-Expressionism is a style of late-modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s, characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Julian Schnabel
  • Francesco Clemente
  • Anselm Kiefer
  • Georg Baselitz

Appropriation Art

Appropriation Art involves the intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of pre-existing images and objects.

  • Sherrie Levine
  • Jeff Koons
  • Richard Prince
  • Barbara Kruger
  • Cindy Sherman

Street Art / Graffiti Art

Street Art or Graffiti Art is visual art created in public locations, often unsanctioned, and executed outside of the traditional art venue context.

  • Banksy
  • Lady Pink
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Keith Haring
  • Shepard Fairey

Installation Art

Installation Art is a genre that creates immersive, three-dimensional environments that transform the viewer's perception of a space.

  • James Turrell
  • Olafur Eliasson
  • Yayoi Kusama
  • Ai Weiwei
  • Louise Bourgeois

Digital Art / New Media Art

Digital Art or New Media Art encompasses artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process.

  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
  • Nam June Paik
  • Olia Lialina
  • Cory Arcangel
  • Lynn Hershman Leeson

Young British Artists (YBAs)

The Young British Artists (YBAs) were a loose group of artists who began to exhibit together in London in the late 1980s, known for their entrepreneurial spirit and use of shock tactics.

  • Sarah Lucas
  • Damien Hirst
  • Tracey Emin
  • Gary Hume
  • Chris Ofili

Relational Aesthetics

Relational Aesthetics is a mode of art-making where social interactions and human relations form the primary artistic medium.

  • Philippe Parreno
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Pierre Huyghe
  • Vanessa Beecroft
  • Liam Gillick

Bio Art

Bio Art is an art practice that uses living organisms, tissues, and biological processes as its medium.

  • Eduardo Kac
  • Stelarc
  • Suzanne Anker
  • Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr)
  • Marta de Menezes

Post-Internet Art

Post-Internet Art is art that reflects the cultural and social conditions shaped by the internet and digital technologies.

  • Petra Cortright
  • Ryan Trecartin
  • Jon Rafman
  • Hito Steyerl
  • Amalia Ulman

Contemporary Indigenous Art

Contemporary Indigenous Art encompasses a diverse range of artistic practices by Indigenous artists, engaging with both traditional and contemporary materials and themes.

  • Rebecca Belmore
  • Brook Andrew
  • James Luna
  • Kent Monkman
  • Brian Jungen

Social Practice Art

Social Practice Art is an art medium that focuses on engagement through human interaction and social discourse.

  • Jeanne van Heeswijk
  • Theaster Gates
  • Tania Bruguera
  • Rick Lowe
  • Suzanne Lacy

AI and Algorithmic Art

AI and Algorithmic art is a field of artistic production that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, machine learning, and generative processes to create artworks.

  • Sougwen Chung
  • Memo Akten
  • Helena Sarin
  • Refik Anadol
  • Mario Klingemann