CREATION DATES OF THE PRINCIPAL MOVEMENTS IN PAINTING

1800      NEO-CLASSICISM : DAVID Jacques-Louis

1824      ROMANTICISM : GERICAULT

1825      THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL : the first American school of painting; landscape painters: COLE, CHURCH, BIERSTADT, MORAN

1834      ORIENTALISM : DELACROIX, DINET, ROCHEGROSSE, ERNST Rudolph

1849      THE BARBIZON SCHOOL : MILLET, DIAZ, ROUSSEAU, TROYON

THE PRERAPHAËLITES : BURNE-JONES, ROSSETTI, HUNT

1855      REALISM : Gustave COURBET, the master of Ornans

THE MACCHIAIOLI : (from 'machia', mark in Italian) :
SIGNORINI, FATTORI, LEGA

1863      THE REFUSED : (from the official exhibition) many of them will become impressionists.

1874      THE IMPRESSIONISTS : Exhibited by Nadar.
Louis Leroy creates the word in irony in front of Monet's painting: "Impressions at sunrise".
RENOIR, MONET, SISLEY, MANET, DEGAS , MORISOT, BAZILLE
BOUDIN, CAILLEBOTTE, CASSATT, CEZANNE, PISSARO

1884      THE GROUP OF TWENTY : founded at Brussels. An anti-academic group made up of many impressionists.

1885      SYMBOLISM : LEVY-DHURMER, KNOPF, ROPS

1886      NEO-IMPRESSIONISM : division of tones by pointillist strokes: SEURAT

1888      PONT-AVEN SCHOOL : GAUGUIN, Emile BERNARD, SERUSIER

1889      THE NABIS : they exhibit at the café Volpini: BONNARD, VUILLARD, Maurice DENIS, GAUGUIN

1895      FIRST INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION AT VENICE

1897    
1903
VIENNESE SECESSION : KLIMT, OLBRICHT

1899      THE FAUVIST SCHOOL : in 1905 at the autumn Exhibition, the critic Louis Vauxcelles cried out : "The big cats (fauves) have been set loose!" when he saw paintings by: MATISSE, DERAIN, VLAMINCK, VAN DONGEN , MANGUIN, MARQUET, CAMOIN, FRIESZ, VALTAT

1903      THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION FINALLY HONOURS CEZANNE

1907      CUBISM : PICASSO and "The young ladies of Avignon". PICABIA (creates the first cubist work), GRIS, BRAQUE, DUCHAMP, MARCOUSSIS, LHOTE, LEGER

1908      THE SCHOOL OF THE DUSTBIN : (THE SCHOOL OF EIGHT) including LUKS, SLOAN

1909      THE FUTURISM MANIFESTO : a movement created with the pen of the critic and poet Marinetti : SEVERINI, CARRA, BALLA, BOCCIONI , RUSSOLO

THE RUSSIAN BALLETS
created by Serge DIAGHILEV and M. FOLKINE

1910      ANALYTICAL CUBISM : PICASSO, BRAQUE

1911      THE GOLD SECTION : (or Puteaux Group) is a collateral of cubism : VILLON, METZINGER, GLEIZES

THE BLUE KNIGHT :
German expressionism : KANDINSKY Franz MARC

1912      ORPHISM : (the name comes from Apollinaire) : Robert et Sonia DELAUNAY, KUPKA

1913      THE ARMORY SHOW : A capital exhibition in the USA. Discovery of modern European art.
SYNTHETIC CUBISM : PICASSO and BRAQUE the very essence of the object.
RAYISM : Opening to abstraction by coloured rays, created in Moscow by Michel LARIONOV and Nathalia GONTCHAROVA
VORTICISM : English movement created by LEWIS BRABANÇON, WOUTERS

1915      DADAISM : PICABIA ,DUCHAMP, JANCO, ERNST.ARP.

1916      SUPREMATISM : MALEVITCH (square, circle, cross)

1919      BAUHAUS : KLEE, KANDINSKY

1922      NOVECENTO : nationalist art : SIRONI, OPPI

1924      THE SURREALIST MANIFESTO : created by the poet BRETON and ARAGON : DALI, MAGRITTE, DELVAUX

1931      ABSTRACTION-CREATION : HERBIN, VALMIER, GLEIZES

1947      LYRICAL ABSTRACTION : MATHIEU, HARTUNG, WOLS.
ACTION PAINTING : POLLOCK (drippings), DE KOONING, ROTHKO

1948      RAW ART : Jean DUBUFFET, G.CHAISSAC
MISERABILISM : BUFFET, GRUBER.
COBRA (COpenhagen, BRussels, Amsterdam): CORNEILLE, APPEL

1954      TACHISME : Sam FRANCIS

1955      POP'ART : Jaspers JOHNS, Larry RIVERS, HOCKNEY

KINETIC ART : VASARELY, AGAM

1958      THE HAPPENING : Jim DINE, OLDENBURG

1960      NEW REALISM : KLEIN, ARMAN, TINGUELY, SPOERRI
OP'ART : AGAM, CRUZ-DIEZ, NOLAND
CLOUDISM : MESSAGIER, BENRATH

1961      MEC'ART : (mechanical art by serigraphy)
WARHOL, RAUSCHENBERG, JACQUET, ROTELLA

1962      FLUXUS : BEUYS, NAM Jun PAIK

1964      NARRATIVE FIGURATION : ARROYO, RANCILLAC

1965      MINIMAL ART : Frank STELLA
THE OBJECTORS : RAYNAUD, KUDO

1966      ART LANGUAGE : BALDWIN

1968      HYPERREALISM : CLOSE, Don EDDY

1969      SUPPORT-SURFACE : VIALLAT, CANE, VALENSI

1975      NEO-EXPRESSIONISM : BASELITZ

1977      OPENING OF THE POMPIDOU CENTRE

1979      TRANS-AVANT-GARDE : (both figurative and abstract)
DE MARIA, PALADINO, CHIA.

1980      THE GRAFFITISTS : BASQUIAT, HARING, FUTURA 2000

FREE FIGURATION : COMBAS, BOISROND, DI ROSA, BLANCHAR


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