(Please Note: that this is not a comprehensive list and only includes what are deemed to be the most significant art movements; also there is overlap within the areas of modern art movements)
The Romanesque Era
Romanesque art was a movement within Europe from 1000 AD to 13th century.
The Gothic Period
The Gothic Art movement - was a style of medieval art in in Europe which came to prominence at the end of the Romanesque era. Dating from the 13th century and emerging in the 14th century as the International Gothic style, which was a more sophisticated form of court art. Eventually tastes changed and the Gothic movement declined during the first part of the 16th century. Fell out of fashion as the public's taste in art was changing.
Renaissance
Renaissance: c. 1300 - c. 1600
Italian Renaissance: late 13th century - c. 1600
Renaissance Classicism: late 15th century - late 16th century
Early Netherlandish painting - 1400 - 1500
Renaissance period to Romanticism
Romanticism: 1790 - 1880
Nazarene movement: c. 1820 - late 1840s
The Ancients: 1820s - 1830s
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Pre-dates romanticism, and later competed alongside Romanticism; Neoclassicism was present from the early 18th century and up until the end of the 19th century.
At its peak 1790 to 1840
RomanticismNorwich school: 1803 - 1833, England
Realism: 1830 - 1870, began in France
Barbizon school: c. 1830 - 1870, France
Hague School: 1870 - 1900, Netherlands
Spanish Eclecticism: 1845 - 1890, Spain
Modern Art
- Realism: 1830 - 1870
Impressionism: 1863 - 1890, France
- American Impressionism 1880, United States
- Heidelberg School late 1880s, Australia
- Luminism (also Impressionism, just taking place at a later date in other countries - a late-impressionist style)
- Arts and Crafts movement: 1880 - 1910, United Kingdom
- Tonalism: 1880 - 1920, United States
- Symbolism (visual arts): 1880 - 1910, France andBelgium
Sub-genres of symbolism:
- Russian Symbolism: 1884 - 1910, Russia
- Aesthetic movement: 1868 - 1901, United Kingdom
- Post-impressionism: 1886 - 1905, France
- Pointillism: 1880s, France
- Les Nabis: 1888 - 1900, France
- Fauvism: 1904 - 1909, France
- Cloisonnism: c. 1885, France
- Synthetism: late 1880s - early 1890s, France
- School of Paris: early 20th century, France
- Neo-impressionism: 1886 - 1906, France
- Art Nouveau: 1890 - 1914, France
- Vienna Secession: 1897, Austria
- Also developing in Germany, Scandinavia
- Modernisme: 1890 - 1910, Catalan
- Russian avant-garde: 1890 - 1930, occurring in the former Soviet Union
- Art à la Rue 1890s - 1905, Belgium/France
- Hagenbund 1900 - 1930, Austria
- Expressionism: 1905 - 1930, Germany
- Bloomsbury Group 1905 - c. 1945, England
- Cubism and Analytic Cubism: 1907 - 1914, France
- Futurism (art) - 1910 - 1930, Italy
- Cubo-Futurism 1912 - 1915, Russia
- Rayonism: 1911, Russia
- Synchromism: 1912, United States
- Universal Flowering: 1913, Russia
- Vorticism: 1914 - 1920, United Kingdom
- Biomorphism: 1915 - 1940s
- Suprematism: 1915 - 1925, Russia and other areas of the former Soviet Union
- Dada: 1916 - 1930, Switzerland
- Proletkult: 1917 - 1925, Soviet Union
- Neoplasticism: 1917 - 1931, Holland
- Arbeitsrat für Kunst: 1918 - 1921
- Bauhaus: 1919 - 1933, Germany
- Precisionism c. 1920, United States
- Surrealism: Emerging since 1920s, France
- Acéphale France
- Lettrism 1942 -
- Les Automatistes 1946 - 1951, Canada
- American scene painting: 1920 - 1945, United States
- New Objectivity: 1920's, Germany
- Constructivism (art): 1920s, Russia and Ukraine and Soviet Union
- Art Deco Movement: 1920s - 1930s, France
- Soviet art: 1922 - 1986, Soviet Union
- Social realism: 1929, international
- Socialist realism - 1930 - 1950, Soviet Union and Germany
- Abstraction-Création: 1931 - 1936, France
- Abstract Expressionism: 1940s, Post WWII era, United States
- Neo-Dada: 1950s, International
- International Typographic Style: 1950s, Switzerland
- Soviet Nonconformist Art: 1953 - 1986, Soviet Union
- Russian Non-Conformist: Russia and Ukraine
- Pop Art: around mid - 1950s, United Kingdom and United States
- Situationism 1957 - until early 1970s, Italy
- Minimalism: 1960 - present
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- Contemporary Art MovementsContemporary art - present
- Toyism: 1992 - present
- Digital art: 1990 - present
- Postmodern art: to present
- Modernism: to present
- New Realism: 1960 - present
- Performance art: 1960s - present
- Conceptual art: 1960s - present
- Graffiti: 1960s - present
- Photorealism: 1960s - 1970s
- Post-minimalism: from late 1960s - 1970s
- Installation art: 1970s - present
- Neo-expressionism late 1970s -
- Metarealism: 1970 -1980, Russia
- Neoism: 1979
- Deconstructivism