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Art Informel: the European parallel to Abstract Expressionism. Dubuffet, Tàpies, and the art of the unformed and the raw.

Street Art: from subway tags to gallery walls. Banksy, Keith Haring, and the art that reclaims public space.

Color Field Painting: Rothko, Frankenthaler, and the art of pure colour. Large canvases, soaked stains, and the contemplative tradition.

Land Art: Smithson, Heizer, and the movement that took art out of the gallery and into the desert. Earthworks, site-specificity, and the scale of the planet.

Conceptual Art: the idea over the object. Kosuth, LeWitt, and the movement that asked what counts as art when the artwork can be a sentence.

Op Art: Bridget Riley, Vasarely, and the 1960s movement that made the eye vibrate. Geometric patterns, optical illusion, and the art of perception.

De Stijl: Mondrian, primary colours, and the Dutch movement that sought universal harmony through geometric form.

Suprematism: Malevich and the zero point of painting. The Black Square, pure geometry, and the Russian movement that pushed abstraction to its limit.

Futurism: speed, machines, and the cult of the new. Marinetti, Boccioni, and the Italian movement that glorified violence and technology.

Photorealism: painting like a camera. Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and the 1960s movement that made the photograph the starting point for painted images.

The Bauhaus: the school that shaped twentieth-century design. From Weimar to Dessau to Chicago, Gropius, Breuer, and Klee built a new visual language.

Constructivism: art for the new society. Tatlin, Rodchenko, and the Russian avant-garde that fused art with industry and revolution.

Minimalism: reduction and presence. Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and the 1960s art that stripped away expression in favour of objecthood.

Pop Art: mass culture as high art. Warhol, Lichtenstein, and the 1960s movement that turned advertising, comics, and consumer goods into gallery icons.

Art Brut: raw vision beyond the academy. Discover Dubuffet, the Collection de l'Art Brut, and artists who created outside institutional culture.

Abstract Expressionism: gesture, colour, and the search for the transcendent. Explore Pollock, Rothko, and the New York School that made America the centre of art.

Surrealism: dreams, the unconscious, and the marvellous. Discover Dalí, Magritte, Breton, and how artists sought to revolutionise life through the irrational.

Dada: anti-art, chance, and the irrational. Discover Tzara, Duchamp, and the movement that declared war on reason and convention.

Art Deco: glamour, geometry, and the machine age. Explore the style that defined the 1920s and 30s, from skyscrapers to jewellery.

Cubism: breaking the picture plane. Discover how Picasso and Braque shattered Renaissance perspective and revolutionised 20th-century art.

Expressionism: inner worlds made visible. Explore Munch, the Brücke, and how artists distorted reality to convey emotional and psychological truth.

Fauvism: wild color and raw emotion. Discover Matisse, Derain, and the movement that shocked Paris with its bold rejection of naturalistic color.

Art Nouveau: flowing organic forms, nature-inspired ornament, and the integration of art into everyday life. Discover Mucha, Horta, and the birth of modern design.

Naïve art: untrained artists created startling originality through simplified forms, vivid colors, and unfiltered imagination.

Beyond Impressionism! Discover Cézanne, Van Gogh & more in Post-Impressionism. Learn about abstraction & personal expression in art.

Discover the meaning of symbolism! Learn its origins, art and famous symbolist painters. Find hidden emotions in art.