An Art history time line of Art Movements of the 20th Century in Song.

Artists in the 1900s
Had goals and philosophies
They were called a variety of
'isms and tendencies'

These isms and tendencies
Are widely considered to be
The art movements of the 20th century

Before the turn of the 20th century,
From 1880 to 1900,
Modernism started supposedly.

There was Art Nouveau, Symbolism,
The Vienna succession, Post-Impressionism
And Les Nabis

After 1900 through 1910
There was Fauvism, the Photo-Secession,
Cubism, Futurism, Die Brucke, Expressionism

These isms and tendencies
Are widely considered to be
The art movements of the 20th century

From 1910 to 1920
There was Orphism, Vorticism, School of Paris
Constructivism and Suprematism

Also Blauer Reiter,
De Stjl and Bauhaus
and Dada (dadadadada)

In the 1920s
there was New Objectivity,
Surrealism
and there were Mexican Murals.

These isms and tendencies
Are widely considered to be
The art movements of the 20th century

The 1930s saw
Socialist Realism, Group f/64
American Social Realist Photography and Unit One

The British Surrealist Group,
The Harlem Renaissance and Photo-Journalism

From the 1940s
There was the St. Ives School, Spacialism, Abstract Expressionism
Arte Informel and CoBrA

These isms and tendencies
Are widely considered to be
The art movements of the 20th century


In the 1950s,
There were happenings, there was New York Photography,
The Neo-Concrete Group, Situationist International

There was Pop Art and Neo-Dada and Hard-Edged Painting

In the 1960s
There was Nouveau Realisme, Minimalism,
Op Art, Vienna Actionism, Fluxus,

Arte Povera, Land Art, School of London, Post-Painterly Abstraction.

These isms and tendencies
Are widely considered to be
The art movements of the 20th century

In the 1970s
There was conceptual Art,
Feminism,
Performance Art,

Conceptual Photography,
Photo-Realism and Body Art

In the 1980s
There was the Black Art Movement, Video and Film, Neo-Expressionism, Graffiti Art and New British Sculpture.

And Finally, in the 1990s there were the Young British Artists, Dusseldorf School Photography and Installation

свернуть