Art Movements

Impressionism

Light, colour and everyday scenes — Monet, Renoir, Degas

Post-Impressionism

Bold colours and personal expression — Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin

Baroque

Drama, movement and grandeur — Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens

Renaissance

Rebirth of classical ideals — Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo

Romanticism

Emotion, nature and the sublime — Delacroix, Turner, Friedrich

Realism

Everyday life depicted honestly — Courbet, Millet, Daumier

Surrealism

Dreams and the unconscious — Dalí, Magritte, Kahlo

Cubism

Multiple perspectives at once — Picasso, Braque, Léger

Expressionism

Raw emotion over representation — Munch, Kirchner, Kandinsky

Abstract Expressionism

Spontaneous abstraction — Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning

Fauvism

Wild, vivid colour — Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck

Neoclassicism

Classical antiquity revived — David, Ingres, Canova

Symbolism

Myth, dreams and mystery — Moreau, Klimt, Redon

Art Nouveau

Organic forms and decorative beauty — Mucha, Klimt, Toorop

Dutch Golden Age

Mastery of light and everyday life — Vermeer, Rembrandt, Hals

Mannerism

Elegant distortion after the Renaissance — Pontormo, Bronzino

Pop Art

Consumer culture as high art — Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hockney

Minimalism

Reduced to essentials — Malevich, Mondrian, Albers