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An art movement, or ism, is a style in art. It may have a common philosophy, followed by a group of artists. It may be a label given by a critic to describe a type of artwork. It is typical of the post-photography era that art explores new directions.

Some art movements can be pinned down to a time and place, or to particular artists. Verbal explanation of movements may come from the artists themselves, sometimes in the form of an art manifesto (published statement). Quite often, a movement is labelled afterwards by some art historian or critic.

Art movements may be connected to similar ideas in architecture, literature, philosophy or even politics. In rough date order:

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Arshile Gorky, The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944), oil on canvas, 73¹⁄₄ × 98" (186 × 249 cm) Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. De Kooning said: "I met a lot of artists — but then I met Gorky... He had an extraordinary gift for hitting the nail on the head; remarkable. So I immediately attached myself to him and we became very good friends."
Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon, (1806), Musée du Louvre, Neoclassicism
Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Savage State, 1836, Hudson River School
Gustave Courbet, Stone-Breakers, 1849, Realist School
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, c. 1867, Ville d'Avray National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Barbizon School
Claude Monet, Haystacks, (sunset), 1890–1891, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Impressionism
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, Post-Impressionism
Edvard Munch, The Scream, early example of Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky, 1903, Der Blaue Reiter painting, Der Blaue Reiter 21.1 cm × 54.6 cm (8.3 in × 21.5 in)
Pablo Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques, 1905, Picasso's Rose Period
Henri Matisse, The Open Window, 1905, Fauvism
Georges Braque 1910, Analytic Cubism
Kazimir Malevich, (Supremus No. 58), Museum of Art, 1916, Suprematism
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, Dada
Albert Gleizes, Woman with Black Glove, 1920, Crystal Cubism
Piet Mondrian, Tableau I, 1921, De Stijl
Theo van Doesburg, Composition XX, 1920, De Stijl
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921, Tate, Surrealism
Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Precisionism
Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago, Social Realism
Art & Language, Untitled Painting (1965), Tate, Conceptual art
Art & Language, Art-Language Vol.3 No.1 (1974), Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Conceptual art
Tony Smith, She Who Must Be Obeyed, 1975, Tony Smith Department of Labour Building, Minimalism
Dan Flavin, Untitled (Corner Piece), 1930, Tate Liverpool, Installation art

See also

In Spanish: Movimiento artístico para niños

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