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Art Movements is a classification system covering significant artistic movements in Western art from the Renaissance to the contemporary era. It chronologically organizes groundbreaking movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. Each movement possesses unique expressive techniques, aesthetic philosophies, and social contexts, playing crucial roles in the development of art history.

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[
  {
    "code": "01",
    "slug": "impressionism",
    "name": "Impressionism",
    "description": "A 19th-century French painting movement that captured fleeting impressions of light and color.",
    "period": "1860s–1880s",
    "origin": "France",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Claude Monet",
      "Pierre-Auguste Renoir",
      "Edgar Degas",
      "Camille Pissarro",
      "Berthe Morisot"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "02",
    "slug": "post-impressionism",
    "name": "Post-Impressionism",
    "description": "An art movement that developed Impressionism, emphasizing subjective expression and geometric forms.",
    "period": "1880s–1910s",
    "origin": "France",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Paul Cézanne",
      "Vincent van Gogh",
      "Paul Gauguin",
      "Georges Seurat"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "03",
    "slug": "cubism",
    "name": "Cubism",
    "description": "A revolutionary 20th-century art movement that decomposed subjects into geometric shapes and depicted them from multiple viewpoints simultaneously.",
    "period": "1907–1922",
    "origin": "France (Paris)",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Pablo Picasso",
      "Georges Braque",
      "Juan Gris",
      "Fernand Léger"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "04",
    "slug": "fauvism",
    "name": "Fauvism",
    "description": "An early 20th-century avant-garde art movement characterized by vivid colors and bold brushwork.",
    "period": "1905–1910",
    "origin": "France",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Henri Matisse",
      "André Derain",
      "Maurice de Vlaminck"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "05",
    "slug": "expressionism",
    "name": "Expressionism",
    "description": "An art movement that emphasized inner emotions and subjective experiences, distorting subjects for expressive purposes.",
    "period": "1905–1920s",
    "origin": "Germany",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner",
      "Franz Marc",
      "Wassily Kandinsky",
      "Edvard Munch"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "06",
    "slug": "futurism",
    "name": "Futurism",
    "description": "An early 20th-century Italian avant-garde art movement that celebrated speed, technology, and the machine age.",
    "period": "1909–late 1920s",
    "origin": "Italy",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Umberto Boccioni",
      "Carlo Carrà",
      "Giacomo Balla"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "07",
    "slug": "dada",
    "name": "Dada",
    "description": "An avant-garde art movement born from the reaction to World War I, rejecting established conventions.",
    "period": "1916–1924",
    "origin": "Switzerland (Zurich)",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Tristan Tzara",
      "Hans Arp",
      "Marcel Duchamp",
      "Francis Picabia"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "08",
    "slug": "surrealism",
    "name": "Surrealism",
    "description": "A 20th-century art movement that explored dreams and the unconscious world, characterized by unexpected juxtapositions.",
    "period": "1924–1966",
    "origin": "France (Paris)",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Salvador Dalí",
      "René Magritte",
      "Joan Miró",
      "Max Ernst",
      "Frida Kahlo"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "09",
    "slug": "abstract-expressionism",
    "name": "Abstract Expressionism",
    "description": "A post-war art movement that emerged in America, emphasizing pure abstraction and emotional expression.",
    "period": "1943–1965",
    "origin": "United States (New York)",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Jackson Pollock",
      "Willem de Kooning",
      "Mark Rothko",
      "Barnett Newman"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "10",
    "slug": "pop-art",
    "name": "Pop Art",
    "description": "An art movement that used mass culture and consumer society as subjects, blurring the boundaries between high art and low culture.",
    "period": "Mid-1950s–early 1970s",
    "origin": "United Kingdom, United States",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Andy Warhol",
      "Roy Lichtenstein",
      "Richard Hamilton",
      "Claes Oldenburg"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "11",
    "slug": "minimalism",
    "name": "Minimalism",
    "description": "A 1960s art movement that emphasized geometric shapes and materiality while avoiding emotional content.",
    "period": "Early 1960s–late 1960s",
    "origin": "United States",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Frank Stella",
      "Donald Judd",
      "Carl Andre",
      "Dan Flavin"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "12",
    "slug": "conceptual-art",
    "name": "Conceptual Art",
    "description": "An art movement from the late 1960s onwards that treats the idea or concept itself as the main subject of the artwork.",
    "period": "Mid-1960s onwards",
    "origin": "United States, Europe",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Joseph Kosuth",
      "Walter De Maria",
      "John Baldessari",
      "Sol LeWitt",
      "Joseph Beuys"
    ]
  },
  {
    "code": "13",
    "slug": "neo-expressionism",
    "name": "Neo-Expressionism",
    "description": "An art movement from the late 1970s characterized by expressive brushwork and raw depictions.",
    "period": "Late 1970s–early 1990s",
    "origin": "Germany",
    "keyArtists": [
      "Georg Baselitz",
      "Julian Schnabel",
      "Anselm Kiefer",
      "Jean-Michel Basquiat"
    ]
  }
]