Trending Art Movements in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed art movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
274,284
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
17,416
views
views
2
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
12,326
views
views
3
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
10,083
views
views
4
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
8,960
views
views
5
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
8,919
views
views
6
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
8,712
views
views
7
Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
7,598
views
views
8
Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
7,532
views
views
9
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
7,472
views
views
10
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
7,332
views
views
11
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
7,085
views
views
12
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
6,316
views
views
13
literary realism
literary movement
5,857
views
views
14
naturalism
literary movement
5,153
views
views
15
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
4,949
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
4,869
views
views
17
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
4,576
views
views
18
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
4,477
views
views
19
Expressionism
modernist art movement
3,993
views
views
20
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
3,790
views
views
21
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
3,460
views
views
22
Mannerism
style of European art
3,344
views
views
23
Les Nabis
artist collective
3,153
views
views
24
pop art
art movement
2,818
views
views
25
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
2,766
views
views
26
Futurism
artistic and social movement
2,683
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
2,659
views
views
28
French Realism
French painting movement
2,629
views
views
29
epic poem
lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds
2,554
views
views
30
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
2,510
views
views
31
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
2,454
views
views
32
naïve art
art movement
2,450
views
views
33
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
2,406
views
views
34
Beat Generation
literary movement
2,370
views
views
35
Romanesque art
artistic style of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the 13th century
2,278
views
views
36
academic art
style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art
2,153
views
views
37
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
2,113
views
views
38
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
2,099
views
views
39
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
2,061
views
views
40
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
2,039
views
views
41
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
2,037
views
views
42
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
2,024
views
views
43
street art
art that is public and temporary in public spaces
1,917
views
views
44
Précieuses
art movement in literature
1,822
views
views
45
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
1,770
views
views
46
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
1,754
views
views
47
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
1,751
views
views
48
Barbizon school
artistic movement of landscape painters of the first part and mid-19th century
1,730
views
views
49
Gothic art
style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
1,677
views
views
50
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
1,634
views
views
51
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
1,627
views
views
52
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
1,609
views
views
53
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
1,595
views
views
54
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
1,522
views
views
55
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
1,513
views
views
56
humor
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
1,502
views
views
57
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
1,484
views
views
58
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
1,470
views
views
59
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
1,424
views
views
60
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
1,391
views
views
61
land art
form of art creation in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked
1,315
views
views
62
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
1,270
views
views
63
ligne claire
drawing style
1,261
views
views
64
School of Paris
art movement
1,247
views
views
65
Post-exotisme
1,242
views
views
66
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
1,203
views
views
67
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
1,198
views
views
68
Early Netherlandish painting
work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance
1,189
views
views
69
Romantic painting
painting movement, late 18th - 19th century
1,173
views
views
70
minimalist music
form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials
1,157
views
views
71
Quattrocento
Italian Renaissance
1,154
views
views
72
Groupe des Six
group of French composers
1,151
views
views
73
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
1,138
views
views
74
La Movida Madrileña
countercultural movement during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's 1975 death
1,122
views
views
75
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
1,105
views
views
76
Renaissance painting
painting movement of that period of European history known as the Renaissance
1,101
views
views
77
Suprematism
early 20th-century art movement
1,067
views
views
78
Mao-Spontex
libertarian Maoist ideology
1,064
views
views
79
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
1,056
views
views
80
Baroque painting
painting movement
1,041
views
views
81
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
1,036
views
views
82
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
1,027
views
views
83
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
1,013
views
views
84
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
1,010
views
views
85
New Extremity
film genre
1,008
views
views
86
German Romanticism
intellectual movement in the culture of German-speaking countries in the late-18th and early 19th centuries
1,006
views
views
87
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
1,001
views
views
88
Pont-Aven School
art movement
997
views
views
89
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
977
views
views
90
Arte Povera
Italian art movement
961
views
views
91
Naturalism
art movement
960
views
views
92
graphic novel
book with primarily comics contents
955
views
views
93
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
946
views
views
94
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
938
views
views
95
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
933
views
views
96
School of Lyon
group of poets, humanists and scholars from Lyon
926
views
views
97
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
923
views
views
98
Constructivism
artistic and architectural philosophy
919
views
views
99
Memphis Group
Italian design group
914
views
views
100
Orphism
art movement
913
views
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