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What is the most influential art movement in history?

by YPB Team

Movements that changed what a picture is allowed to look like. One of them was named by a critic who meant it as an insult.

  1. Renaissance — ranked #11
    Renaissance
    Perspective, anatomy and the rediscovery of antiquity in fifteenth-century Italy.
    1000pts
  2. Baroque — ranked #22
    Baroque
    Drama, movement and hard light, from Caravaggio to Bernini.
    822pts
  3. Expressionism — ranked #33
    Expressionism
    Distorted colour and form to carry feeling, from Munch to Kirchner.
    768pts
  4. Minimalism — ranked #44
    Minimalism
    Industrial materials and repetition, stripped of gesture.
    685pts
  5. Post-Impressionism — ranked #55
    Post-Impressionism
    Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne pushing past the Impressionists' surfaces.
    621pts
  6. Pop Art — ranked #66
    Pop Art
    Soup cans, comic panels and the collapse of the line between art and advertising.
    464pts
  7. Impressionism — ranked #77
    Impressionism
    Named from a Monet canvas by a critic who meant it as an insult in 1874.
    464pts
  8. Ukiyo-e — ranked #88
    Ukiyo-e
    Japanese woodblock prints that reshaped European painting after 1860.
    464pts
  9. Romanticism — ranked #99
    Romanticism
    Feeling, weather and the sublime over rules, from Turner to Delacroix.
    464pts
  10. Bauhaus — ranked #1010
    Bauhaus
    A German school that taught design to serve manufacture, and shaped modern buildings and objects.
    464pts
  11. Surrealism — ranked #1111
    Surrealism
    Dreams and the unconscious, from Dali's clocks to Magritte's pipe.
    365pts
  12. Cubism — ranked #1212
    Cubism
    Picasso and Braque breaking objects into simultaneous viewpoints, taken up across the 1912 Salon.
    365pts
  13. Abstract Expressionism — ranked #1313
    Abstract Expressionism
    Post-war New York, from Pollock's drips to Rothko's fields.
    0pts
  14. Dada — ranked #1414
    Dada
    Anti-art born of the First World War, and the reason a urinal hangs in museums.
    0pts

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Comments

Impressionism got its name from a hostile review in Le Charivari on 25 April 1874, and the painters kept the insult. That movement against thirteen others: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways

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