Art History

Travel through the entire history of art — from the first cave paintings around 40,000 BCE to the art of 2026, one movement at a time. A living timeline of 100 art movements across seven eras, growing twice a week.

2 / 100 movements published · a new one twice a week

Prehistory & Antiquity

c. 40,000 BCE — 400 CE

The Medieval World

c. 400 — 1400
  • 11 Early Christian & Byzantine Art Coming soon
  • 12 Insular & Celtic Art Coming soon
  • 13 Islamic Art Coming soon
  • 14 Pre-Columbian Art Coming soon
  • 15 West African Court Art Coming soon
  • 16 Romanesque Art Coming soon
  • 17 Gothic Art Coming soon
  • 18 Yamato-e & Heian Art Coming soon

Renaissance & Baroque

c. 1400 — 1750
  • 19 Early Italian Renaissance Coming soon
  • 20 High Renaissance Coming soon
  • 21 Northern Renaissance Coming soon
  • 22 Venetian Renaissance Coming soon
  • 23 Mannerism Coming soon
  • 24 Baroque Coming soon
  • 25 Dutch Golden Age Coming soon
  • 26 Flemish Baroque Coming soon
  • 27 Spanish Golden Age Coming soon
  • 28 Rococo Coming soon
  • 29 Ukiyo-e Coming soon

The 18th & 19th Centuries

c. 1750 — 1900
  • 30 Neoclassicism Coming soon
  • 31 Romanticism Coming soon
  • 32 Orientalism Coming soon
  • 33 Realism Coming soon
  • 34 Hudson River School & Luminism Coming soon
  • 35 Pre-Raphaelites Coming soon
  • 36 Barbizon & Plein-air Coming soon
  • 37 Impressionism Coming soon
  • 38 Neo-Impressionism Coming soon
  • 39 Post-Impressionism Coming soon
  • 40 Symbolism Coming soon
  • 41 Art Nouveau Coming soon
  • 42 Tonalism & Aestheticism Coming soon
  • 43 Arts & Crafts Coming soon
  • 44 Naïve Art Coming soon

Early Modernism

c. 1900 — 1940
  • 45 Fauvism Coming soon
  • 46 Expressionism Coming soon
  • 47 Cubism Coming soon
  • 48 Futurism Coming soon
  • 49 Orphism Coming soon
  • 50 Suprematism Coming soon
  • 51 Constructivism Coming soon
  • 52 De Stijl & Neoplasticism Coming soon
  • 53 Bauhaus Coming soon
  • 54 Dada Coming soon
  • 55 Pittura Metafisica Coming soon
  • 56 Precisionism Coming soon
  • 57 Harlem Renaissance Coming soon
  • 58 Surrealism Coming soon
  • 59 Art Deco Coming soon
  • 60 Magic Realism Coming soon
  • 61 Mexican Muralism Coming soon
  • 62 American Scene & Regionalism Coming soon

The Mid-20th Century

c. 1940 — 1970
  • 63 Abstract Expressionism Coming soon
  • 64 Color Field Coming soon
  • 65 Art Brut & Outsider Coming soon
  • 66 CoBrA Coming soon
  • 67 Art Informel & Tachisme Coming soon
  • 68 Kinetic Art Coming soon
  • 69 Op Art Coming soon
  • 70 Pop Art Coming soon
  • 71 Nouveau Réalisme Coming soon
  • 72 Minimalism Coming soon
  • 73 Hard-edge Coming soon
  • 74 Conceptual Art Coming soon
  • 75 Land Art & Earthworks Coming soon
  • 76 Arte Povera Coming soon
  • 77 Photorealism & Hyperrealism Coming soon
  • 78 Feminist Art Coming soon

The Late 20th — 21st Century

c. 1970 — 2026
  • 79 Neo-Expressionism Coming soon
  • 80 Street Art & Graffiti Coming soon
  • 81 Postmodern Appropriation Coming soon
  • 82 Superflat Coming soon
  • 83 Young British Art Coming soon
  • 84 Lowbrow & Pop Surrealism Coming soon
  • 85 New Media & Video Art Coming soon
  • 86 Glitch Art Coming soon
  • 87 Vaporwave Coming soon
  • 88 Generative & Algorithmic Art Coming soon
  • 89 Pixel & Voxel Art Coming soon
  • 90 On-chain & Crypto-Art Coming soon
  • 91 AI & Neural Aesthetic Coming soon
  • 92 Post-Internet & Metamodern Coming soon
  • 93 Solarpunk Coming soon
  • 94 Afrofuturism Coming soon
  • 95 New Contemporary Figuration Coming soon
  • 96 Brutalist & Concrete Aesthetic Coming soon
  • 97 Grainy Atmosphere Coming soon
  • 98 Curated-Calm Abstraction Coming soon
  • 99 Visible-Authorship Texture Coming soon
  • 100 Contemporary 2026 Synthesis Coming soon

The timeline grows on its own — one movement published twice a week until the whole history of art, from the first cave paintings to 2026, is on the wall.