Huge shoutout to my professor Ben Bays for providing us with this list of art styles/movements. I figured I would post it here for any ADs to look back at when they need inspiration. All bullets link to external sites.
- ASCII Art
- Abstract art
- Art Brut
- Abstract expressionism
- Abstract Illusionism
- Academic art
- Action painting
- Aestheticism
- Altermodern
- American Barbizon school
- American Impressionism
- American realism
- American Scene Painting
- Analytical art
- Antipodeans
- Arabesque
- Arbeitsrat für Kunst
- Art Deco
- Art Informel
- Art Nouveau
- Art Photography
- Arte Povera
- Arts and Crafts movement
- Ashcan School
- Assemblage
- Les Automatistes
- Auto-destructive art
- Barbizon school
- Baroque
- Bauhaus
- Blobism
- Classical Realism
- Color Field
- Context Art
- Computer Art
- Concrete art
- Conceptual art
- Constructivism
- Cubism
- Dada
- Danube school
- Dau-al-Set
- De Stijl (also known as Neoplasticism)
- Deconstructivism
- Digital Art
- Excessivism
- Expressionism
- Fantastic realism
- Feminist Art
- Figurative art
- Figuration Libre
- Folk art
- Fluxus
- Futurism
- Geometric abstract art
- Graffiti
- Gutai group
- Gothic art
- Happening
- Harlem Renaissance
- Heidelberg School
- Hudson River School
- Humanistic Aestheticism
- Hypermodernism
- Hyperrealism
- Impressionism
- Institutional Critique
- International Gothic
- International Typographic Style
- Kinetic Art
- Land art
- Les Nabis
- Letterism
- Lowbrow
- Lyco art
- Lyrical Abstraction
- Magic Realism
- Mannerism
- Massurrealism
- Maximalism
- Metaphysical painting
- Mingei (Links to an external site.)
- Minimalism (Links to an external site.)
- Modernism (Links to an external site.)
- Modular constructivism (Links to an external site.)
- Naive art (Links to an external site.)
- Neoclassicism (Links to an external site.)
- Neo-Dada (Links to an external site.)
- Neo-expressionism (Links to an external site.)
- Neo-figurative (Links to an external site.)
- Neoism (Links to an external site.)
- Neo-primitivism (Links to an external site.)
- Net art
- New Objectivity
- Northwest School
- Op Art
- Orphism
- Photorealism
- Panfuturism
- Pixel Art
- Plasticien
- Plein Air
- Pointillism
- Pop art
- Post-impressionism
- Postminimalism
- Precisionism
- Pre-Raphaelitism
- Primitivism
- Process art
- Psychedelic art
- Purism
- Qajar art
- Rasquache
- Realism
- Regionalism
- Remodernism
- Renaissance
- Rococo
- Romanesque
- Romanticism
- Samikshavad
- Serial art
- Shin hanga
- Shock art
- Sōsaku hanga
- Socialist Realism
- Sots Art
- Space Art
- Street Art
- Stuckism
- Sumatraism
- Superflat
- Suprematism
- Surrealism
- Symbolism (arts)
- Synchromism
- Tachisme
- Toyism
- Transgressive art
- Tonalism
- Ukiyo-e
- Underground comix
- Vancouver School
- Vanitas
- Verdadism
- Video art
- Vorticism