Major Painting Styles & Movements
Ancient & Medieval
Ancient Egyptian Art, Ancient Greek Painting, Roman Painting, Early Christian Art, Byzantine Art, Coptic Art, Romanesque, Gothic Art, International Gothic, Icon Painting, Illuminated Manuscript Style.
Renaissance & Baroque
Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Venetian Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Dutch Golden Age, Flemish Baroque, Spanish Golden Age, Caravaggism, Tenebrism, Classicism, Bodegón, Rococo.
18th & 19th Century
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Orientalism, Nazarene Movement, Biedermeier, Academic Art, Historicism, Realism, Naturalism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Hudson River School, Luminism, Barbizon School, Düsseldorf School, Symbolism, Aestheticism.
Impressionism & Related
Impressionism, American Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism, Divisionism, Cloisonnism, Synthetism, Les Nabis, Intimism.
Art Nouveau & Around 1900
Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Vienna Secession, Modernisme, Glasgow Style, Symbolism, Secessionism.
Expressionist Movements
Expressionism, German Expressionism, Austrian Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, Fauvism, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, New Objectivity.
Cubism & Geometric Modernism
Cubism, Analytical Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, Orphism, Purism, Futurism, Vorticism, Suprematism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Neoplasticism, Bauhaus, Concrete Art, Geometric Abstraction.
Dada, Surrealism & Fantastic Art
Dadaism, Surrealism, Pittura Metafisica, Fantastic Realism, Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Magic Realism, Automatism, Biomorphism.
American Modernism
American Realism, Ashcan School, Precisionism, Regionalism, American Scene Painting, Social Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Synchromism.
Postwar Abstraction
Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting, Color Field Painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Tachisme, Art Informel, CoBrA, Gutai, Hard-Edge Painting, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Minimalism.
Pop & Postwar Figurative Art
Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Neo-Dada, Fluxus, Photorealism, Hyperrealism, New Figuration, Bay Area Figurative Movement, Capitalist Realism, Lowbrow Art, Funk Art.
Conceptual & Experimental
Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Process Art, Performance-related Painting, Arte Povera, Supports/Surfaces, Mono-ha, Installation-related Painting, Land Art, Mail Art.
Optical & Systematic Styles
Op Art, Kinetic Art, Concrete Art, Systems Art, Pattern and Decoration, Generative Art.
Late 20th-Century & Contemporary
Neo-Expressionism, Transavantgarde, Neue Wilde, Young British Artists, Neo-Pop, Stuckism, Superflat, Lowbrow, Pop Surrealism, Street Art, Graffiti Art, Urban Art, Postmodernism, Appropriation Art, New European Painting.
Figurative Categories & Styles
Figurative Art, Figurative Expressionism, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Portraiture, Genre Painting, History Painting, Landscape Painting, Marine Painting, Still Life, Botanical Painting, Wildlife Art, Naive Art, Outsider Art, Visionary Art.
Abstract Categories
Abstract Art, Geometric Abstraction, Lyrical Abstraction, Organic Abstraction, Gestural Abstraction, Biomorphic Abstraction, Color Field, Hard-Edge Abstraction, Minimalist Abstraction, Informel.
Asian Traditions
Chinese Ink Painting, Shan Shui, Gongbi, Xieyi, Literati Painting, Japanese Nihonga, Yamato-e, Ukiyo-e, Sumi-e, Rinpa, Nanga/Bunjinga, Korean Minhwa, Dansaekhwa, Tibetan Thangka Painting.
Indian & South Asian Traditions
Mughal Painting, Rajput Painting, Pahari Painting, Madhubani/Mithila, Pattachitra, Kalamkari, Warli Painting, Gond Art, Tanjore Painting, Kerala Mural Painting, Bengal School.
African & African-Derived Styles
Tinga Tinga, Ndebele Art, Ethiopian Icon Painting, African Modernism, African Expressionism, Contemporary African Figurative Painting.
Latin American & Mexican
Mexican Muralism, Mexican Modernism, Indigenismo, Latin American Constructivism, Concrete Art, Neo-Concrete Art, Magic Realism, Brazilian Modernism.
Eastern European & Folk Traditions
Petrykivka Painting, Russian Avant-Garde, Rayonism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism, Sots Art, Primitivism.
Important Techniques & Styles
Trompe-l’œil, Grisaille, Chiaroscuro, Tenebrism, Impasto, Encaustic Painting, Fresco, Glazing, Alla Prima, Plein Air, Collage Painting, Drip Painting, Stencil Art, Dot Painting/Punktmalerei.