Trending Art Movements in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed art movements on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
251,501
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
16,471
views
views
2
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
11,266
views
views
3
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
9,427
views
views
4
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
8,497
views
views
5
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
7,900
views
views
6
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
7,414
views
views
7
Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
6,996
views
views
8
Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
6,990
views
views
9
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
6,934
views
views
10
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
6,823
views
views
11
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
6,753
views
views
12
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
5,893
views
views
13
literary realism
literary movement
5,575
views
views
14
naturalism
literary movement
4,845
views
views
15
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
4,675
views
views
16
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
4,489
views
views
17
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
4,077
views
views
18
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
4,050
views
views
19
Expressionism
modernist art movement
3,601
views
views
20
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
3,525
views
views
21
Mannerism
style of European art
3,119
views
views
22
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
3,094
views
views
23
pop art
art movement
2,618
views
views
24
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
2,531
views
views
25
Futurism
artistic and social movement
2,508
views
views
26
French Realism
French painting movement
2,441
views
views
27
ukiyo-e
Japanese art genre, fl. 17th–19th c., consisting of woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes, landscapes, flora, fauna, and erotica
2,403
views
views
28
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
2,331
views
views
29
Les Nabis
artist collective
2,263
views
views
30
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
2,236
views
views
31
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
2,228
views
views
32
naïve art
art movement
2,225
views
views
33
Beat Generation
literary movement
2,162
views
views
34
Romanesque art
artistic style of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the 13th century
2,147
views
views
35
academic art
style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art
2,038
views
views
36
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
1,968
views
views
37
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
1,926
views
views
38
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
1,897
views
views
39
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
1,871
views
views
40
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
1,856
views
views
41
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
1,843
views
views
42
French Romanticism
literary and artistic movement
1,731
views
views
43
street art
art that is public and temporary in public spaces
1,719
views
views
44
Précieuses
art movement in literature
1,716
views
views
45
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
1,628
views
views
46
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
1,593
views
views
47
Barbizon school
artistic movement of landscape painters of the first part and mid-19th century
1,561
views
views
48
Gothic art
style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
1,557
views
views
49
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
1,535
views
views
50
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
1,518
views
views
51
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
1,506
views
views
52
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
1,472
views
views
53
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
1,469
views
views
54
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
1,426
views
views
55
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
1,390
views
views
56
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
1,388
views
views
57
humour
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
1,378
views
views
58
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
1,367
views
views
59
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
1,334
views
views
60
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
1,315
views
views
61
Post-exotisme
1,223
views
views
62
land art
form of art creation in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked
1,195
views
views
63
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
1,168
views
views
64
School of Paris
art movement
1,146
views
views
65
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
1,140
views
views
66
ligne claire
drawing style
1,117
views
views
67
Early Netherlandish painting
work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance
1,090
views
views
68
Quattrocento
Italian Renaissance
1,070
views
views
69
Romantic painting
painting movement, late 18th - 19th century
1,056
views
views
70
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
1,042
views
views
71
minimalist music
form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials
1,041
views
views
72
Renaissance painting
painting movement of that period of European history known as the Renaissance
1,026
views
views
73
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
1,021
views
views
74
Mao-Spontex
libertarian Maoist ideology
1,013
views
views
75
Groupe des Six
group of French composers
1,010
views
views
76
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
1,006
views
views
77
psychedelia
movement, subculture, style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances
983
views
views
78
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
970
views
views
79
Suprematism
early 20th-century art movement
967
views
views
80
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
953
views
views
81
Baroque painting
painting movement
947
views
views
82
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
939
views
views
83
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
936
views
views
84
New Extremity
film genre
934
views
views
85
German Romanticism
intellectual movement in the culture of German-speaking countries in the late-18th and early 19th centuries
932
views
views
86
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
922
views
views
87
Pont-Aven School
art movement
920
views
views
88
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
915
views
views
89
School of Lyon
group of poets, humanists and scholars from Lyon
904
views
views
90
La Movida Madrileña
countercultural movement during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's 1975 death
874
views
views
91
graphic novel
book with primarily comics contents
873
views
views
92
Arte Povera
Italian art movement
872
views
views
93
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
863
views
views
94
Naturalism
art movement
860
views
views
95
Memphis Group
Italian design group
856
views
views
96
Orphism
art movement
855
views
views
97
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
853
views
views
98
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
839
views
views
99
Carolingian Renaissance
8th-9th century renaissance within the Carolingian Empire
833
views
views
100
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
828
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