Trending Art Movements this month
The 100 most-viewed art movements this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance.
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Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
21,595
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Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
13,509
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Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
13,435
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bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
10,249
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Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
10,160
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Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
10,031
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Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
9,407
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8
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
9,222
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kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
8,984
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surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
8,867
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11
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
8,847
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12
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
8,622
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13
Beat Generation
literary movement
7,890
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14
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
7,876
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satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
7,830
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Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
7,741
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
7,709
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Classical Hollywood cinema
style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s
7,124
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Pre-Code Hollywood
US cinema before the Motion Picture Production Code introduction
7,070
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20
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
6,412
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21
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
6,269
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22
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
6,266
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23
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
5,945
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24
ukiyo-e
Japanese art genre, fl. 17th–19th c., consisting of woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo
5,895
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25
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
5,865
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Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
5,578
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27
Futurism
artistic and social movement
5,502
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28
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
5,491
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29
New Extremity
film genre
5,207
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30
visual kei
movement among Japanese musicians defined by a strong focus on visual expression through outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles
4,933
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31
New Romantic
1970s British pop culture movement
4,919
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32
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
4,913
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33
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
4,911
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34
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
4,651
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35
British Invasion
cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popul
4,501
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36
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
4,455
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ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
4,254
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38
realism
artistic style of representing subjects realistically
4,227
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39
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
4,168
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40
kitchen sink realism
British social realist artistic movement
4,112
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41
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
3,993
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42
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
3,990
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43
Bloomsbury Group
influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists
3,832
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44
Expressionism
modernist art movement
3,791
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45
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
3,739
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46
Mannerism
style of European art
3,682
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47
pop art
art movement
3,569
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48
Second British Invasion
music cultural movement
3,552
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49
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
3,391
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50
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
3,286
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51
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
3,229
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52
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
3,222
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53
Memphis Group
design group
3,165
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54
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
3,125
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55
new wave of British heavy metal
heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
3,121
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postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
3,025
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57
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
3,016
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58
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
3,015
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59
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
2,995
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60
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through languag
2,964
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61
Classical period
genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820)
2,900
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62
socialist realism
art style depicting communist values
2,879
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63
Madchester
Musical and cultural scene from late 80s-early 90s Manchester
2,869
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64
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
2,828
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65
Streamline Moderne
art movement between Art Deco and modernism
2,674
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66
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
2,660
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67
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
2,658
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68
post-punk revival
genre of indie rock music
2,604
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69
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
2,535
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70
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
2,521
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71
Hudson River school
American art movement
2,484
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72
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
2,384
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73
High Renaissance
short period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
2,383
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74
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
2,375
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75
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
2,367
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76
Constructivism
artistic and architectural philosophy
2,317
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Renaissance music
musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries
2,259
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78
agitprop
political art from Soviet Russia
2,254
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79
Dutch Golden Age painting
17th-century Dutch painting
2,240
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80
metamodernism
movement which emerged from and reacts to postmodernism
2,164
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81
humour
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
2,123
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82
literary realism
literary movement
2,106
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83
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
2,090
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84
naïve art
art movement
2,078
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85
German Expressionism
cultural movement
2,050
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86
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
2,024
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87
The Five
circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
1,959
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88
neo-futurism
late 20th-early 21st century movement in the arts, design, and architecture
1,904
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89
De Stijl
Dutch artistic movement
1,852
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90
hauntology
music genre that evokes cultural memory and the aesthetics of the past
1,848
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91
golden age hip-hop
name given to mainstream hip hop music created in the mid/late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly by artists and musicians originating from
1,833
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92
Italian neorealism
national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class
1,815
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93
en plein air
act of painting outdoors
1,748
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94
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
1,738
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95
eclecticism
conceptual approach
1,705
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academic art
style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art
1,690
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97
Nollywood
sobriquet of Nigerian cinema
1,678
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98
psychedelia
movement, subculture, style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produce
1,674
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99
didacticism
philosophy
1,663
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100
New Weird America
subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
1,648
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