Trending Art Movements — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed art movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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4,139,376
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
235,084
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views
2
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
155,367
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views
3
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
133,796
views
views
4
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
128,846
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views
5
Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
115,120
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views
6
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
103,877
views
views
7
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
103,808
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views
8
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
91,695
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views
9
Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
87,334
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views
10
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
75,303
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views
11
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
69,237
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views
12
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
68,867
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views
13
epic poem
lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds
65,978
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views
14
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
63,612
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views
15
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
59,961
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views
16
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
59,286
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views
17
Beat Generation
literary movement
58,126
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views
18
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
57,362
views
views
19
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
56,830
views
views
20
Early Netherlandish painting
work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance
56,824
views
views
21
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
55,644
views
views
22
Futurism
artistic and social movement
55,214
views
views
23
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
54,953
views
views
24
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
53,089
views
views
25
Expressionism
modernist art movement
48,991
views
views
26
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
48,676
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views
27
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
46,678
views
views
28
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
44,861
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views
29
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
44,787
views
views
30
Classical Hollywood cinema
style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s
44,054
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views
31
Mannerism
style of European art
43,531
views
views
32
pop art
art movement
42,946
views
views
33
Pre-Code Hollywood
US cinema before the Motion Picture Production Code introduction
41,575
views
views
34
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
41,404
views
views
35
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
40,130
views
views
36
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
39,151
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views
37
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
37,988
views
views
38
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
37,903
views
views
39
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
37,807
views
views
40
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
36,674
views
views
41
visual kei
movement among Japanese musicians defined by a strong focus on visual expression through outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles
36,213
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views
42
Gothic art
style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
34,910
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views
43
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
33,337
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views
44
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
32,809
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views
45
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
32,250
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views
46
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
32,112
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views
47
graphic novel
book with primarily comics contents
31,710
views
views
48
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
31,697
views
views
49
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
30,579
views
views
50
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 popular in the United States
30,301
views
views
51
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
29,786
views
views
52
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
28,380
views
views
53
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
27,861
views
views
54
literary realism
literary movement
27,227
views
views
55
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
27,192
views
views
56
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
26,822
views
views
57
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
26,505
views
views
58
realism
artistic style of representing subjects realistically
26,119
views
views
59
socialist realism
art style depicting communist values
25,722
views
views
60
Bloomsbury Group
influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists
25,244
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views
61
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
25,224
views
views
62
Memphis Group
Italian design group
25,184
views
views
63
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
24,637
views
views
64
New Extremity
film genre
24,523
views
views
65
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
24,341
views
views
66
Constructivism
artistic and architectural philosophy
23,470
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views
67
kitchen sink realism
British social realist artistic movement
23,374
views
views
68
new wave of British heavy metal
heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
22,984
views
views
69
New Romantic
1970s British pop culture movement
22,705
views
views
70
naturalism
literary movement
22,685
views
views
71
humor
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
22,364
views
views
72
Romanesque art
artistic style of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the 13th century
21,810
views
views
73
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
21,470
views
views
74
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
21,362
views
views
75
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
21,223
views
views
76
Madchester
Musical and cultural scene from late 80s-early 90s Manchester
20,966
views
views
77
naïve art
art movement
20,560
views
views
78
Classicism
art movement; architectural style
20,499
views
views
79
The Five
circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
20,133
views
views
80
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
20,116
views
views
81
Classical period
genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820)
19,623
views
views
82
Biedermeier
Era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848
18,873
views
views
83
eclecticism
conceptual approach
18,856
views
views
84
Jugendstil
artistic movement; German equivalent of art nouveau
18,564
views
views
85
Suprematism
early 20th-century art movement
18,453
views
views
86
Nihonga
paintings made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions
18,238
views
views
87
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
18,166
views
views
88
Hudson River school
American art movement
17,925
views
views
89
Streamline Moderne
art movement between Art Deco and modernism
17,613
views
views
90
High Renaissance
short period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
17,486
views
views
91
De Stijl
Dutch artistic movement
17,481
views
views
92
hip hop culture
culture including hip hop music, turntablism, breakdancing and graffiti
17,000
views
views
93
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
16,998
views
views
94
German Expressionism
cultural movement
16,839
views
views
95
agitprop
political art from Soviet Russia
16,814
views
views
96
Dutch Golden Age painting
17th-century Dutch painting
16,761
views
views
97
Renaissance music
musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries
16,300
views
views
98
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
16,218
views
views
99
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
16,216
views
views
100
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
16,177
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