Explore 19 major art movements that shaped contemporary culture from the 1960s to today.
Pop Art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and 60s, drawing inspiration from popular culture, mass media, and everyday objects.
Minimalism is a style that reduces art to its most essential forms, often using geometric shapes and industrial materials.
Conceptual Art prioritizes the idea or concept behind the artwork over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
Performance Art is a genre in which art is presented "live," typically by the artist but sometimes with collaborators or performers.
Land Art or Earthworks are large-scale art projects that use the natural landscape as their medium.
Photorealism is a painting style that aims to create images that are as realistic and detailed as photographs.
Postminimalism is an artistic trend that emerged in the late 1960s, reacting to and extending the ideas of Minimalism.
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.
Appropriation Art involves the intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of pre-existing images and objects.
Street Art or Graffiti Art is visual art created in public locations, often unsanctioned, and executed outside of the traditional art venue context.
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.
Installation Art is a genre that creates immersive, three-dimensional environments that transform the viewer's perception of a space.
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.
Relational Aesthetics is a mode of art-making where social interactions and human relations form the primary artistic medium.
Social Practice Art is an art medium that focuses on engagement through human interaction and social discourse.
Contemporary Indigenous Art encompasses a diverse range of artistic practices by Indigenous artists, engaging with both traditional and contemporary materials and themes.
Bio Art is an art practice that uses living organisms, tissues, and biological processes as its medium.
Post-Internet Art is art that reflects the cultural and social conditions shaped by the internet and digital technologies.
AI and Algorithmic art is a field of artistic production that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, machine learning, and generative processes to create artworks.