Trending Art Movements in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed art movements this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance.
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651,973
Total Views (this year)
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Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
32,726
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Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
20,597
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3
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
19,772
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4
Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
14,562
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5
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
14,550
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6
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
14,368
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7
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
13,810
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8
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
13,699
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9
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
13,430
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10
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
12,861
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11
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
12,641
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12
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
12,124
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13
Beat Generation
literary movement
11,352
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14
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
11,230
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15
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
10,958
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16
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
10,841
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17
Classical Hollywood cinema
style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s
10,583
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18
Pre-Code Hollywood
US cinema before the Motion Picture Production Code introduction
9,764
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19
Futurism
artistic and social movement
9,705
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20
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
9,609
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21
ukiyo-e
Japanese art genre, fl. 17th–19th c., consisting of woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo
8,868
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22
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
8,842
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23
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
8,670
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24
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
8,658
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25
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
8,641
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26
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
8,613
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27
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
8,606
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28
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
7,789
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29
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
7,277
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30
visual kei
movement among Japanese musicians defined by a strong focus on visual expression through outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles
6,667
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31
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
6,574
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32
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
6,567
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33
British Invasion
cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popul
6,533
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34
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
6,443
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35
New Extremity
film genre
6,440
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36
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
6,309
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37
Expressionism
modernist art movement
6,277
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38
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
6,126
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39
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
6,045
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40
New Romantic
1970s British pop culture movement
6,040
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41
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
6,017
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42
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
5,936
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43
pop art
art movement
5,697
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44
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
5,516
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45
Mannerism
style of European art
5,413
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46
kitchen sink realism
British social realist artistic movement
5,405
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47
realism
artistic style of representing subjects realistically
5,306
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48
Bloomsbury Group
influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists
5,211
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49
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
4,962
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50
Streamline Moderne
art movement between Art Deco and modernism
4,841
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51
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
4,636
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52
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
4,601
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53
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
4,584
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54
Second British Invasion
music cultural movement
4,555
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55
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
4,554
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56
new wave of British heavy metal
heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
4,505
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57
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
4,475
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58
socialist realism
art style depicting communist values
4,435
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59
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
4,412
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60
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
4,209
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61
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through languag
4,185
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62
Memphis Group
design group
4,070
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63
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
4,026
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64
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
3,955
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65
Classical period
genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820)
3,867
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66
Madchester
Musical and cultural scene from late 80s-early 90s Manchester
3,835
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67
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
3,830
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68
hauntology
music genre that evokes cultural memory and the aesthetics of the past
3,829
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69
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
3,790
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70
Hudson River school
American art movement
3,739
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71
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
3,656
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72
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
3,575
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73
post-punk revival
genre of indie rock music
3,518
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74
High Renaissance
short period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
3,499
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75
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
3,454
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76
Constructivism
artistic and architectural philosophy
3,408
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77
metamodernism
movement which emerged from and reacts to postmodernism
3,184
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78
agitprop
political art from Soviet Russia
3,179
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79
Dutch Golden Age painting
17th-century Dutch painting
3,174
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80
literary realism
literary movement
3,162
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views
81
naïve art
art movement
3,124
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82
humour
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
3,056
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83
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
3,042
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84
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
3,013
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85
German Expressionism
cultural movement
2,941
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86
Renaissance music
musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries
2,913
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87
De Stijl
Dutch artistic movement
2,828
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views
88
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
2,817
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89
neo-futurism
late 20th-early 21st century movement in the arts, design, and architecture
2,782
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90
The Five
circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
2,758
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91
post-disco
group of music genres; music movement
2,708
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92
Classicism
art movement; architectural style
2,663
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93
golden age hip-hop
name given to mainstream hip hop music created in the mid/late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly by artists and musicians originating from
2,648
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94
Italian neorealism
national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class
2,603
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95
en plein air
act of painting outdoors
2,519
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96
academic art
style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art
2,514
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97
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
2,467
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98
psychedelia
movement, subculture, style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produce
2,452
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99
didacticism
philosophy
2,378
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100
eclecticism
conceptual approach
2,375
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