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ART TIMELINE
This timeline features only some of the major art movements of the twentieth century and covers the period 1905 - 1972. Other timelines are in production and will be available soon. Please note that these dates are guides only and give a broad picture of the changes within the visual arts during an exciting period of history.
1905-1970
1900 1905   1910   1915   1920   1925
1930
ART NOUVEAU - Decorative Movement (1880 - 1925)
 
FAUVISM
(1905-1908)
Matisse
                 
 
DIE BRUCKE - German
"The Bridge"
(1905-1913) Nolde & Schmidt-Rottluff
             
   
CUBISM (1908-1925)
Picasso & Braque
   
   

NEO-PLASTICISM
(1910'S) Piet Mondrian &
Theo van Doesburg

           
     
DER BLAUE REITER -
"The Blue Rider" (1911-1914)
Klee & Kandinsky
           
           
DADA (1916-1922)
Marcel Duchamp
     
           
SURREALISM (1924-1930)
Dali & Breton

Continued...

1935   1940   1945   1950   1955   1960
1965
     
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (1945-1961)
Pollock, Newman, Rothko & DeKooning
   
       
POST-PAINTERLY ABSTRACTION (1953-1968)
Louis, Noland, Ad Reinhardt, Frankenthaler & Olitsky
 

 

       
NEO-DADA (1955-1968)
Jasper Johns &
Robert Rauschenberg
 
   
           

POP ART
(1961-1972)