Trending Art Movements in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed art movements on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,762,414
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
98,067
views
views
2
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
97,415
views
views
3
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
51,644
views
views
4
Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
49,792
views
views
5
Early Netherlandish painting
work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance
49,657
views
views
6
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
46,455
views
views
7
Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
38,510
views
views
8
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
36,020
views
views
9
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
34,567
views
views
10
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
34,474
views
views
11
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
33,809
views
views
12
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
32,261
views
views
13
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
31,124
views
views
14
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
30,329
views
views
15
Beat Generation
literary movement
26,801
views
views
16
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
25,019
views
views
17
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
24,954
views
views
18
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
23,866
views
views
19
Pre-Code Hollywood
US cinema before the Motion Picture Production Code introduction
23,622
views
views
20
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
23,613
views
views
21
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
23,387
views
views
22
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
23,030
views
views
23
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
22,492
views
views
24
Futurism
artistic and social movement
21,952
views
views
25
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
21,257
views
views
26
Classical Hollywood cinema
style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s
21,237
views
views
27
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
20,173
views
views
28
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
19,420
views
views
29
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
18,310
views
views
30
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
18,087
views
views
31
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
17,993
views
views
32
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
17,862
views
views
33
epic poem
lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds
17,560
views
views
34
Expressionism
modernist art movement
17,185
views
views
35
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
16,382
views
views
36
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
16,267
views
views
37
pop art
art movement
16,209
views
views
38
visual kei
movement among Japanese musicians defined by a strong focus on visual expression through outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles
16,202
views
views
39
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
15,948
views
views
40
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
15,643
views
views
41
Mannerism
style of European art
14,790
views
views
42
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
14,721
views
views
43
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
14,596
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views
44
graphic novel
book with primarily comics contents
14,411
views
views
45
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
14,090
views
views
46
kitchen sink realism
British social realist artistic movement
13,202
views
views
47
New Extremity
film genre
13,181
views
views
48
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
13,101
views
views
49
Bloomsbury Group
influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists
12,905
views
views
50
Memphis Group
Italian design group
12,853
views
views
51
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
12,253
views
views
52
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
11,921
views
views
53
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
11,831
views
views
54
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
11,624
views
views
55
New Romantic
1970s British pop culture movement
11,170
views
views
56
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
11,140
views
views
57
socialist realism
art style depicting communist values
10,961
views
views
58
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
10,946
views
views
59
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
10,837
views
views
60
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
10,762
views
views
61
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
10,601
views
views
62
new wave of British heavy metal
heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
10,556
views
views
63
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
10,434
views
views
64
Madchester
Musical and cultural scene from late 80s-early 90s Manchester
10,356
views
views
65
Hudson River school
American art movement
10,241
views
views
66
realism
artistic style of representing subjects realistically
10,011
views
views
67
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
9,574
views
views
68
Constructivism
artistic and architectural philosophy
9,483
views
views
69
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
9,243
views
views
70
Classical period
genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820)
8,958
views
views
71
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
8,938
views
views
72
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
8,876
views
views
73
High Renaissance
short period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
8,653
views
views
74
Second British Invasion
music cultural movement
8,494
views
views
75
De Stijl
Dutch artistic movement
8,420
views
views
76
Streamline Moderne
art movement between Art Deco and modernism
8,409
views
views
77
humor
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
8,212
views
views
78
post-punk revival
genre of indie rock music
8,189
views
views
79
neo-futurism
late 20th-early 21st century movement in the arts, design, and architecture
8,113
views
views
80
Northern Renaissance
Renaissance that occurred in the European countries north of the Alps
8,078
views
views
81
agitprop
political art from Soviet Russia
7,924
views
views
82
literary realism
literary movement
7,840
views
views
83
German Expressionism
cultural movement
7,760
views
views
84
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
7,750
views
views
85
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
7,703
views
views
86
Dutch Golden Age painting
17th-century Dutch painting
7,518
views
views
87
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
7,475
views
views
88
Gothic art
style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
7,384
views
views
89
metamodernism
movement which emerged from and reacts to postmodernism
7,065
views
views
90
naïve art
art movement
6,947
views
views
91
Renaissance music
musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries
6,826
views
views
92
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
6,757
views
views
93
The Five
circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
6,550
views
views
94
Suprematism
early 20th-century art movement
6,513
views
views
95
hauntology
music genre that evokes cultural memory and the aesthetics of the past
6,390
views
views
96
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 the New York metropolitan area
6,260
views
views
97
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
6,255
views
views
98
en plein air
act of painting outdoors
6,050
views
views
99
Nollywood
sobriquet of Nigerian cinema
5,861
views
views
100
Rock Against Racism
music festival and campaign
5,857
views
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