Trending Art Movements in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed art movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Renaissance. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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Ranked
2,927,404
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Renaissance
cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century
154,479
views
views
2
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
123,910
views
views
3
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
85,680
views
views
4
Art Deco
influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s
85,174
views
views
5
Bauhaus
school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
75,528
views
views
6
Art Nouveau
international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art
63,672
views
views
7
Impressionism
19th-century art movement
60,432
views
views
8
kitsch
art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes
58,442
views
views
9
surrealism
international cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
58,059
views
views
10
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
55,480
views
views
11
Baroque
cultural movement, starting around 1600
55,131
views
views
12
bohemianism
practice of an unconventional lifestyle
54,584
views
views
13
Early Netherlandish painting
work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance
52,699
views
views
14
Postmodernism
philosophical and artistic movement
50,133
views
views
15
Beat Generation
literary movement
46,507
views
views
16
New Hollywood
American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s
44,010
views
views
17
satire
literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
42,875
views
views
18
ukiyo-e
Japanese art genre, fl. 17th–19th c., consisting of woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes, landscapes, flora, fauna, and erotica
41,507
views
views
19
riot grrrl
underground feminist punk rock movement; music genre
41,018
views
views
20
Pre-Code Hollywood
US cinema before the Motion Picture Production Code introduction
40,345
views
views
21
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848
40,199
views
views
22
Classical Hollywood cinema
style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s
39,414
views
views
23
modernism
movement of art, culture, philosophy and architecture
38,812
views
views
24
Futurism
artistic and social movement
38,799
views
views
25
cubism
early-20th-century avant-garde art movement
38,627
views
views
26
rapping
artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular"
36,426
views
views
27
magic realism
style of literary fiction and art
35,903
views
views
28
epic poem
lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds
35,523
views
views
29
Fauvism
artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
32,367
views
views
30
solarpunk
political and aesthetic movement that advocates for the environment
32,096
views
views
31
Britpop
music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
30,942
views
views
32
Arts and Crafts movement
international design movement
29,116
views
views
33
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
28,939
views
views
34
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
28,563
views
views
35
Expressionism
modernist art movement
28,031
views
views
36
visual kei
movement among Japanese musicians defined by a strong focus on visual expression through outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles
27,380
views
views
37
pop art
art movement
27,098
views
views
38
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 popular in the United States
26,560
views
views
39
Neoclassicism
Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
26,209
views
views
40
graphic novel
book with primarily comics contents
25,665
views
views
41
pointillism
technique of painting with small, distinct dots
25,529
views
views
42
French New Wave
c. 1960s movement in French cinema
25,516
views
views
43
outsider art
art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
25,450
views
views
44
Baroque music
style of Western classical music
25,429
views
views
45
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
24,475
views
views
46
Mannerism
style of European art
24,277
views
views
47
New Extremity
film genre
23,157
views
views
48
kitchen sink realism
British social realist artistic movement
22,878
views
views
49
Bloomsbury Group
influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists
21,651
views
views
50
Memphis Group
Italian design group
21,521
views
views
51
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
20,718
views
views
52
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
20,664
views
views
53
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
20,126
views
views
54
Post-impressionism
predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
19,769
views
views
55
New Romantic
1970s British pop culture movement
19,490
views
views
56
Fluxus
international network of artists, composers and designers
19,276
views
views
57
socialist realism
art style depicting communist values
19,156
views
views
58
new wave of British heavy metal
heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
18,707
views
views
59
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
18,544
views
views
60
Romantic music
music of the Romantic period
18,263
views
views
61
abstract art
art with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
18,260
views
views
62
abstract expressionism
American post–World War II art movement
18,160
views
views
63
realism
artistic style of representing subjects realistically
17,478
views
views
64
Madchester
Musical and cultural scene from late 80s-early 90s Manchester
17,444
views
views
65
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
17,378
views
views
66
degenerate art
term used by the German Nazi regime to describe modern art
16,746
views
views
67
Hudson River school
American art movement
16,624
views
views
68
Minimalism
movements in various forms of art and design
16,063
views
views
69
Streamline Moderne
art movement between Art Deco and modernism
15,963
views
views
70
modern art
artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
15,806
views
views
71
Fayum mummy portraits
type of ancient naturalistic portraits from Roman Egypt
15,532
views
views
72
Constructivism
artistic and architectural philosophy
15,394
views
views
73
Nihonga
paintings made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions
15,246
views
views
74
post-punk revival
genre of indie rock music
15,037
views
views
75
Classical period
genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820)
14,999
views
views
76
Second British Invasion
music cultural movement
14,767
views
views
77
High Renaissance
short period of the most exceptional artistic production during the Italian Renaissance
14,529
views
views
78
humor
tendency of someone to point out and emphasize the comical nature of something (or the mental state that leads to this tendency)
14,000
views
views
79
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
13,528
views
views
80
De Stijl
Dutch artistic movement
13,463
views
views
81
literary realism
literary movement
13,344
views
views
82
agitprop
political art from Soviet Russia
13,247
views
views
83
neo-futurism
late 20th-early 21st century movement in the arts, design, and architecture
13,155
views
views
84
Dutch Golden Age painting
17th-century Dutch painting
13,024
views
views
85
metamodernism
movement which emerged from and reacts to postmodernism
12,979
views
views
86
contemporary art
art produced from the 1940s to the present
12,959
views
views
87
German Expressionism
cultural movement
12,808
views
views
88
Vienna Secession
group of Austrian artists and architects
12,731
views
views
89
hauntology
music genre that evokes cultural memory and the aesthetics of the past
12,547
views
views
90
naïve art
art movement
12,350
views
views
91
Gothic art
style of Medieval art developed in Northern France
11,770
views
views
92
medieval music
Western music written during the Middle Ages
11,530
views
views
93
Rock Against Racism
music festival and campaign
11,496
views
views
94
Renaissance music
musical period between the 15th and 17th centuries
11,373
views
views
95
The Five
circle of five prominent 19th-century Russian composers
11,313
views
views
96
conceptual art
contemporary art movement
10,854
views
views
97
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 the New York metropolitan area
10,768
views
views
98
Suprematism
early 20th-century art movement
10,749
views
views
99
Northern Renaissance
Renaissance that occurred in the European countries north of the Alps
10,538
views
views
100
en plein air
act of painting outdoors
10,522
views
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