An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_periods

Renaissance

Renaissance c. 1300 - c. 1602, began in Florence

Italian Renaissance - late 13th century - c. 1600 - late 15th century - late 16th century
Renaissance Classicism
Early Netherlandish painting - 1400 - 1500

Renaissance to Neoclassicism

Mannerism and Late Renaissance - 1520 - 1600, began in central Italy
Baroque - 1600 - 1730, began in Rome

Dutch Golden Age painting - 1585 – 1702
Flemish Baroque painting - 1585 – 1700

Rococo - 1720 - 1780, began in France
Neoclassicism - 1750 - 1830, began in Rome

Romanticism

Romanticism -1790 - 1880

Nazarene movement - c. 1820 - late 1840s
The Ancients - 1820s - 1840s
Purismo - c. 1820 - 1860s
Düsseldorf school - mid-1820s - 1860s
Hudson River school - 1850s - c. 1880
Luminism (American art style) - 1850s – 1870s

Romanticism to Modern Art

Norwich school - 1803 - 1833, England
Biedermeier - 1815 - 1848, Germany
Photography - Since 1826
Realism - 1830 - 1870, began in France
Barbizon school - c. 1830 - 1870, France
Peredvizhniki - 1870, Russia
Hague School - 1870 - 1900, Netherlands
American Barbizon school - United States
Spanish Eclecticism - 1845 - 1890, Spain
Macchiaioli - 1850s, Tuscany, Italy
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - 1848 - 1854, England

Modern art

Modern art - 1860 - 1945

Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.

Impressionism - 1860 - 1890, France

American Impressionism 1880, United States
Cos Cob Art Colony 1890s, United States
Heidelberg School late 1880s, Australia

Luminism (Impressionism)
Arts and Crafts movement - 1880 - 1910, United Kingdom
Tonalism - 1880 - 1920, United States
Symbolism (arts) - 1880 - 1910, France/Belgium

Russian Symbolism 1884 - c. 1910, Russia
Aesthetic movement 1868 - 1901, United Kingdom

Post-impressionism - 1886 - 1905, France

Les Nabis 1888 - 1900, France
Cloisonnism c. 1885, France
Synthetism late 1880s - early 1890s, France

Neo-impressionism 1886 - 1906, France

Pointillism 1879, France
Divisionism 1880s, France

Art Nouveau - 1890 - 1914, France

Vienna Secession (or Secessionstil) 1897, Austria
Jugendstil Germany, Scandinavia
Modernisme - 1890 to 1910, Spain

Russian avant-garde - 1890 - 1930, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Art à la Rue 1890s - 1905, Belgium/France
Young Poland 1890 - 1918, Poland
Mir iskusstva 1899, Russia
Hagenbund 1900 - 1930, Austria
Fauvism - 1904 - 1909, France
Expressionism - 1905 - 1930, Germany

Die Brücke 1905 - 1913, Germany
Der Blaue Reiter 1911, Germany

Bloomsbury Group - 1905 - c. 1945, England
Cubism - 1907 - 1914, France

Orphism - 1912, France
Purism - 1918 - 1926
Cubo-Expressionism 1909 - 1921

Ashcan School 1907, United States
Jack of Diamonds (artists) 1909, Russia
Futurism (art) - 1910 - 1930, Italy

Cubo-Futurism 1912 - 1915, Russia

Rayonism 1911, Russia
Synchromism 1912, United States
Universal Flowering 1913, Russia
Vorticism 1914 - 1920, United Kingdom
Biomorphism 1915 - 1940s
Suprematism 1915 - 1925, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Dada - 1916 - 1930, Switzerland
Proletkult 1917 - 1925, Soviet Union
Productijism after 1917, Russia
De Stijl (Neoplasticism) 1917 - 1931, Holland
Pittura Metafisica 1917, Italy
Arbeitsrat für Kunst 1918 - 1921
Bauhaus - 1919 - 1933, Germany
UNOVIS 1919 - 1922, Russia
Others group of artists 1919, United States
American Expressionism c. 1920 -
Precisionism c. 1920, United States
Surrealism Since 1920s, France

Acéphale France
Lettrism 1942 -
Les Automatistes 1946 - 1951, Quebec, Canada

Devetsil 1920 - 1931
Group of Seven 1920 - 1933, Canada
Harlem renaissance 1920 - 1930s, United States
American scene painting c. 1920 - 1945, United States
New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) 1920s, Germany
Constructivism (art) 1920s, Russia/Ukraine/Soviet Union
Art Deco - 1920s - 1930s, France
Grupo Montparnasse 1922, France
Soviet art 1922 - 1986, Soviet Union
Northwest School (art) Hi's - 1940s, United States
Social realism, 1929, international
Socialist realism - c. 1930 - 1950, Soviet Union/Germany
Abstraction-Création 1931 - 1936, France
Allianz (arts) 1937 - 1950s, Switzerland
Abstract Expressionism - 1940s, Post WWII, United States

Action painting United States
Color field painting
Lyrical Abstraction
COBRA (avant-garde movement) 1946 - 1952, Denmark/Belgium/Holland
Tachisme late-1940s - mid-1950s, France
Abstract Imagists United States

Art informel mid-1940s - 1950s
Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s, United Kingdom/United States

Contemporary art

Contemporary art - 1946 - present

Note: there is overlap with what is considered "contemporary art" and "modern art."

Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - 1946, Austria
Neo-Dada 1950s, international
International Typographic Style 1950s, Switzerland
Soviet Nonconformist Art 1953 - 1986, Soviet Union
Painters Eleven 1954-1960, Canada
Pop Art mid-1950s, United Kingdom/United States
Woodlands School 1958-1962, Canada
Situationism 1957 - early 1970s, Italy
New realism 1960 -
Magic realism 1960s, Germany
Minimalism - 1960 -
Hard-edge painting - early 1960s, United States
Fluxus - early 1960s - late-1970s
Happening - early 1960 -
Video art - early 1960 -
Psychedelic art early 1960s -
Conceptual art - 1960s -
Graffiti 1960s-
Junk art 1960s -
Performance art - 1960s -
Op Art 1964 -
Post-painterly abstraction 1964 -
Lyrical Abstraction mid-1960s -
Process art mid-1960s - 1970s
Arte Povera 1967 -
Art and Language 1968, United Kingdom
Photorealism - Late 1960s - early 1970s
Land art - late-1960s - early 1970s
Post-minimalism late-1960s - 1970s
Postmodern art 1970 - present
Deconstructivism
Metarealism - 1970 -1980, Russia
Installation art - 1970s -
Mail art - 1970s -
Neo-expressionism late 1970s -
Neoism 1979
Figuration Libre early 1980s
Young British Artists 1988 -
Digital art 1990 - present
Toyism 1992 - present
Transgressive art
Massurrealism 1992 -
Stuckism 1999 -
Remodernism 1999 -
Maximalism

See also

Aegean art
African art
Indigenous Australian art
Arts of the ancient world
Art of Ancient Egypt
Art in Ancient Greece
Asian art
Buddhist art
Confucian art
Coptic art
Hindu art
Indian art
Islamic art
List of art movements
Naive Art
Native American art
Pre-Columbian art
Pre-historic art
Roman art
Visigothic art

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