Title: Minalism Movement
Dates: from 1950 to 1950
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Minimalism is a form of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner. It is an Abstract style of art which came about as a reaction against the subjective elements of Abstract Expressionsim .

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. In other fields of art, it has been used to describe the novels of Ernest Hemingway, the plays of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.

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Title: Modernism
Dates: from 1920 to 2001
Brief Description: Modernism as an artistic and cultural movement is generally defined as the advent of new forms of art, architecture, music and literature emerging in the decades before 1914 as artists rebelled against late 19th century artistic traditions.

Some divide the 20th century into modern and postmodern periods, where as others see them as two parts of the same larger period. This article will focus on the movement that grew out of the late 19th and early 20th century, while Postmodernism has its own article.

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Title: Nabis
Dates: from 1890 to 1890
Brief Description: Nabis (or Les Nabis; the prophets, from the Hebrew term for prophet) was a group of young post-impressionist avant-garde Parisian artists of the 1890s that influenced the fine arts and graphic arts in France at the turn of the 20th century.

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Title: Neo-Classicism
Dates: from 1700 to 1800
Brief Description: Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. These movements were in effect at various times between the 18th and the 20th centuries.

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Title: Neo-Expressionism
Dates: from 1960 to 1999
Brief Description: A diverse art movement that dominated the art market in Europe and the United States during the early and mid-1980s. Neo-Expressionism comprised a varied assemblage of young artists who had returned to portraying the human body and other recognizable objects, in reaction to the remote, introverted, highly intellectualized abstract art production of the 1970s. The movement was linked to and in part generated by new and aggressive methods of salesmanship, media promotion, and marketing on the part of dealers and galleries.

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Title: Neo-Plastiicism // De Stijl
Dates: from 1920 to 1929
Brief Description: De Stijl (Dutch; pronounced 'duh-stile'; literally the style in English) was an art movement in the 1920s. The movement is also known as neoplasticism — the new plastic art (or 'Nieuwe Beelding' in Dutch).

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