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Art movements flash cards
Twenty major art movements from the Renaissance to Pop Art, with the key ideas, typical features and well-known artists of each, for art history revision.
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The cards, front and back
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Renaissance
BackA revival of classical learning and art in Europe, beginning in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Features include linear perspective, realistic anatomy and balanced composition. Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
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Baroque
BackSeventeenth-century European style full of drama, movement and strong contrasts of light and shadow. Artists: Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Bernini, Rubens.
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Rococo
BackAn eighteenth-century style, mainly French, that was light, decorative and playful, with pastel colours and curving forms. Artists: Fragonard, Watteau, Boucher.
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Neoclassicism
BackA late eighteenth-century return to the order and calm of ancient Greek and Roman art, often with moral or heroic subjects. Artists: Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Canova.
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Romanticism
BackA late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century movement that valued emotion, imagination and the power of nature. Artists: Delacroix, Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Goya.
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Realism
BackA mid-nineteenth-century movement that painted ordinary people and everyday life truthfully, without idealising them. Artists: Courbet, Millet.
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Impressionism
BackA movement that began in France in the 1860s and 1870s. Artists painted light and colour quickly, often outdoors, with visible brushstrokes. Artists: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot.
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Post-Impressionism
BackArtists who built on Impressionism in the late nineteenth century but pushed towards stronger structure, symbolic colour or emotion. Artists: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat.
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Pointillism
BackA technique developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac using small dots of pure colour that blend in the viewer's eye.
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Art Nouveau
BackA decorative style of the 1890s to about 1910, using flowing, organic lines inspired by plants. It appeared in posters, buildings and furniture. Artists: Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt.
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Expressionism
BackAn early twentieth-century movement, strong in Germany, that distorted colour and form to express emotion rather than show reality. Artists: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky; Edvard Munch was an important forerunner.
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Fauvism
BackA short-lived French movement around 1905 using bold, unnatural colour. The name comes from 'les fauves', the wild beasts. Artist: Henri Matisse, André Derain.
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Cubism
BackDeveloped by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1907 to 1914, it broke objects into geometric shapes and showed several viewpoints at once.
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Futurism
BackAn Italian movement founded in 1909 that celebrated speed, machines and modern city life. Artists: Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla.
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Dada
BackAn anti-art movement that began in Zurich around 1916 in reaction to the First World War, using absurdity and chance. Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch, Jean Arp.
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Surrealism
BackA movement launched in Paris in 1924 that explored dreams and the unconscious mind with strange, dreamlike images. Artists: Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst.
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Bauhaus
BackA German art and design school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. It combined art, craft and technology, with an emphasis on simple, functional design.
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Abstract Expressionism
BackA movement centred in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, using large canvases, gesture and colour to express emotion. Artists: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner.
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Pop Art
BackA movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in Britain and the United States, that used images from advertising, comics and mass culture. Artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton.
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Minimalism
BackA 1960s movement, mainly American, that reduced art to simple geometric forms and plain materials. Artists: Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin.
How to use this template
This deck walks through the major Western art movements from the Renaissance to Minimalism. Each back gives the period, the key ideas, the typical features to look for and a few well-known artists. It is aimed at art and art history students at school and university, and gallery visitors who want a framework for what they see. Use Learn mode first, then Test mode with spaced repetition. For best results, look up one painting from each movement while you study, so you link the words to images. Print it double-sided for a portable revision set.
Tips
- Learn the movements in order. Many began as a reaction to the one before, which helps you remember them.
- Link each movement to one painting you can picture clearly.
- Practise describing features with art vocabulary: brushwork, palette, composition, perspective, form.
- Mix up the deck and try to name the movement from the list of artists alone.
- Visit a gallery or online collection and label each work you see with a movement.
Make it fit
- Add movements from other traditions your course covers, such as Japanese ukiyo-e, the Harlem Renaissance or Mexican muralism.
- Add contemporary movements such as street art or conceptual art for a modern-art unit.
- For a shorter test, use only the nineteenth and twentieth-century cards.
- Add a card for each artist on your exam list with their dates and key works.
Updated October 28, 2026