| Zeitraum | Kunstrichtung | Wichtige Künstler | Leben |
| 1915-1925 | Suprematismus | Kasimir Malewitsch | |
| El Lissitzky | |||
| Ljubow Popowa | |||
| Olga Rozanowa | |||
| Ijya Tschaschnik | |||
| 1916-1930 | Dada | Hans Arp | |
| Marcel Duchamp | |||
| Hannah Höch | |||
| Francis Picabia | |||
| Kurt Schwitters | |||
| 1917-1931 | Neoplastizismus | Piet Mondrian | |
| Theo van Doesburg | |||
| Bart van der Leck | |||
| Georges Vantongerloo | |||
| 1920-1960 | Magischer Realismus | Edward Hopper | 1882-1967 |
| Andrew Wyeth | |||
| Gerorge Tooker | |||
| Frida Kahlo | |||
| Colleen Browning | |||
| 1924-1966 | Surrealismus | René Magritte | 1898-1967 |
| Salvadore Dali | 1904-1989 | ||
| Joan Miró | 1893-1983 | ||
| Max Ernst | 1871-1976 | ||
| André Masson | |||
| 1943-1965 | Abstrakter Expressionismus | Jackson Pollock | |
| Willem deKooning | |||
| Philip Guston | |||
| Lee Krasner | |||
| Arshile Gorky | |||
| Franz Kline | |||
| 1947-1965 | Farbfeldmalerei | Mark Rothko | |
| Barnett Newman | |||
| Robert Motherwell | |||
| Clyfford Still | |||
| 1955-1970 | Pop-Art | Richard Hamilton | |
| Peter Blake | |||
| Roy Lichtenstein | 1923-1997 | ||
| Andy Warhol | 1928-1987 | ||
| Jasper Johns | |||
| nach 1960 | Performance Art | Yves Klein | |
| Vito Acconci | |||
| Joseph Beuys | 1921-1986 | ||
| Bruce Naumann | |||
| Marina Abramović | |||
| nach 1960 | Minimalismus | Sol Lewitt | |
| Donald Judd | |||
| Robert Morris | |||
| Carl Andre | |||
| Dan Flavin | |||
| nach 1960 | Konzeptkunst | Joseph Kosuth | |
| Michael Craig-Martin | |||
| Félix González-Torres | |||
| Martin Creed | |||
| Gillian Wearing | |||
| Tracy Emin |
Informationsquelle:
Hodge, Susie: Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst. 1. Auflage. Berlin: Laurence King Verlag, 2018. – ISBN10 978-3-96244-013-8