Art Deco

Art Deco started after World War I and was and arts style becoming popular from 1930-1940 before it popularity reduced after World War II. The style is known for its rich colours and bold geometric shapes, the movement emerged during the war when there was a rapid industrialization, which was embraced by the movement as it embraced technology.

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau began around 1880 the style was born out of the restlessness of the industrial revolution and is known for its use of long, sinuous, and organic lines. The style was most commonly used in architecture, interior design, jewelry, posters and illustration. The style was influenced and fixated on nature, goods that were brought back from the British empire also had an influence on the movement. The movement became popular around 1890-1910, and at its peak illustration prints were been mass produced, and many artist designs used and sold by liberty's.

The Arts and Crafts Movement

The arts and crafts movement was a design movement that took place in the later half of the 19th century, it was led by the artist and writer William Morris who was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin. The movement grew out of concerns over the effects of the industrial revolution, the movement stood for tradition craftsmanship using simple forms and techniques often using medieval, romantic or folk styles.

Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites aka the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1948 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. The group of them intended to reform art by rejecting the mechanistic approach that was adopted by Mannerist artists. They believed that the academic teaching of art had been corrupted by Raphael.

Fluxus

Fluxus is an art movement that took place during the 1960's, the Fluxus manifesto was publish in 1963 by George Maciunas who was one of the founding members of the Fluxus movement. The origin of the movement lie in the concepts of the composer John cage and in his experimental music that he created in the 1950's, the movement was also heavily influenced by the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp.

Land Art

Land art is an art movement where landscapes and the works of art are link. Land art can be created by using natural material or organic media, such as soil, rocks , branches, leaves etc. They are often created away form civilization in large open spaces then left to erode and change under natural conditions.

Conceptual Art

In Conceptual Art the idea and concept behind the work is more important and takes precedence over aesthetics and materials. The move sought to overcome the way arts main principal aim was to produce something beautiful or aesthetically pleasing. As the Conceptual Art is about the idea it doesn't need the artist to create the work it can be created by following a set of instructions.

Pop Art

Pop Art began in Britain during the mid 1950's, it started by the independent group who were a group of young artists. Pop Art to imagery from pop culture, such as advertising, magazines, news etc, the material is often taken out of its context and/or combined with unrelated material. An American Pop art movement also developed separately from the British.

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism begun during the 1940's in New York. The movement is similar to it predecessor Surrealism as the movement focused on spontaneous and subconscious movements and is know for its bright colours, gestural drawings and primitive and impulsive movements. The movement is mainly associated with painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko etc. Abstract expressionism can be split in to two types,  action with artists such as Pollock using spontaneous and unconventional methods to paint with their action based movements.And the colour field side of the movement where artists like Rothko using large areas of colour to create tension.

Surrealism

Surrealism started in the early 1920's developing from Dada but officially began with the publication of the manifesto of surrealism. The movement sought to explore and release the potential of the dreams and the subconscious mind, which was inspired by Sigmund Freud's writings and theory's. Surrealist works feature elements of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions, but many surrealist artist regard their work as an expression of philosophical movement. The movement continued though out the 1930's, the movement never really died, but split of and evolved in to several other art movements.

Dada

Dada began in 1916 and is thought to have begun  in Zurich, Switzerland, created out of negative reactions towards world war 1. Dada rejected reason and logic and is know for irrationality and nonsense and rejecting traditional art and culture. Dada artists embraced chaos and nonsense as the believed that the reason and logic of capitalist had led to war. Different Dada groups formed in different city's, but by 1924 Dada had melted in to surrealism.