Art periods

Contemporary art

(Note: there is considerable overlap with what is considered "modern", "contemporary" and "postmodern" particularly in the later years of the Modern period.)

Contemporary art (1960s - present) Category: Contemporary art

New realism (1960 - )

Performance art (1960s - ) Category: Performance art

Fluxus (early 1960s - late-1970s) Category: Fluxus

Conceptual art (1960s - ) Category: Conceptual art

Junk art (1960s - )

Psychedelic art (early 1960s - )

Battle Elephants (1964 - )

Process art (mid-1960s - 1970s)

Arte Povera (1967 - )

Photorealism (Late 1960s - early 1970s) Category: Photorealism

Land art (late-1960s - early 1970s) Category: Land art

Post-minimalism (late-1960s - 1970s)

Metarealism (1970s - )

Installation art (1970s - ) Category: Installation art

Neo-expressionism (late 1970s - )

Metaphorical realism

Young British Artists (1988 - )

Rectoversion (1991 - )

Transgressive art - Category: Transgressive art

Synaesthesia events

Postmodern art - Category: Postmodernism

Neoism (1979

Deconstructivism

Massurrealism (1992 - )

Stuckism (1999 - )

Remodernism (1999 - )

Maximalism

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