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Generate names for invented art movements and schools: coined isms like Thresholdism and Pentimentism, compounds like Post-Chromatic Abstraction, schools and circles like The Tannery Row School and The Blue Door Group, critics' insults like The Unvarnished, and foreign forms like Der Graue Kreis.

About art movement names

Art movements get their names in a handful of ways, and this list of 1,000 invented ones follows all of them. The plainest is the coined ism, built from a technique, a material or an idea: Thresholdism or Afterimagism. A prefix dates a movement against what came before, so Post-Chromatic Abstraction and Anti-Perspective sound like replies to an argument, while an adjective on an established term, such as Domestic Surrealism or Lyrical Brutalism, sounds like a regional branch.

Other movements are named for where their painters worked or how they organized. The real Hudson River School and Barbizon School took their names from places, which is the model for The Tannery Row School and The Maris Bay Colony. Circles, societies and secessions, such as The Blue Door Group or The Coldharbor Secession, are named like artist associations. Some labels started as mockery: Impressionism comes from a critic's joke about a Monet title in 1874, and the Fauves were called wild beasts in 1905. The Unvarnished and The Smudgers borrow that habit.

The list also holds French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese forms (Der Graue Kreis, La Ligne Tremblée, Usuzumi-ha), manifesto titles, digital currents like Glitch Baroque, and deadpan parody. A coinage can still match a real group by accident, so search a name before you publish it.

How to choose art movement names

Pick the form by how the movement began. Friends who share a studio become a School or a Circle, a published statement becomes a Manifesto or a New something, and a hostile review becomes a nickname like The Mud Painters.
Date the movement with its prefix. Proto- names are given by later historians, Neo- names announce a revival, and Post- or Anti- names need an older movement in your world to push against.
Use a foreign form only where it fits the setting. Gruppe Nordfenster suits a German-speaking city, Scuola del Molo an Italian port, and a -ha ending marks a Japanese school.
Give the name a founding story of a line or two: who coined it, in which year, and whether the artists accepted it. A name the members hated is often the one that sticks.
For published work, search the name first. Art history is crowded with small groups, and an invented ism can turn out to exist.

Frequently asked questions

How are art movements usually named?

Most names come from one of four sources: a coined ism, a place where the artists worked, the title of a group or exhibition, or a critic's insult that stuck. The list follows the same sources with invented examples, such as Scumblism, The Wick Street School, The Circle of the Pale Sun and The Wallpaperers.

Are these real art movements?

No. The 1,000 names are made up for fiction, games, worldbuilding and classroom exercises, and real movements such as Impressionism or Dada appear only as the base of invented variants like Indoor Impressionism and Sunday Dada. Art history has many small groups, so an invented name can still coincide with a real one. Search it before you rely on it.

What do the foreign-language names mean?

They are plain phrases in French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese, with the Russian and Japanese ones in Latin letters. Der Graue Kreis is the gray circle, Les Peintres du Seuil is the painters of the threshold, and Usuzumi-ha is the pale ink school. Ask a native speaker before you print one on a cover.

Can I use these names for parody or a school project?

Yes. The deadpan entries, such as Waiting Room Sublime, Hotel Lobby Abstraction and Gift Shop Baroque, are written for satire. The plainer ones suit an art history exercise in which students invent a movement and write its manifesto.

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All 1,000 art movement names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 42 names

Abendschule der Farbe
Abstraction Tiède
Aerial Survey Painting
Afterimagism
Against Good Taste
Against the Clean Edge
Against the Golden Section
Against the Private View
Against the Vanishing Point
Agrarian Futurism
Agricultural Abstraction
Algorithmic Pastoral
Allotment Surrealism
Alpine Expressionism
Ame no Hi no Kai
Anti-Chiaroscuro
Anti-Composition
Anti-Easel
Anti-Finish
Anti-Frame
Anti-Horizon

A, continued

Anti-Masterpiece
Anti-Ornament
Anti-Palette
Anti-Perspective
Anti-Picturesque
Anti-Portrait
Anti-Salon
Anti-Symmetry
Anti-Varnish
Arctic Rococo
Armaturism
Art for Small Rooms
Art for the Night Shift
Art That Matches the Sofa
Art Without Witnesses
Arte Fragile
Artel Sukhoy Kisti
Artist Statement Maximalism
Astrazione Salmastra
Atelier Morgenlicht
Autofocus Realism

B: 24 names

Backlit Pastoral
Backyardism
Ballpoint Margin Drawing
Bandwidth Abstraction
Barnyard Formalism
Beige Period Revivalism
Belaya Lestnitsa
Bely Ugol
Bent Plywood Movement
Blotism
Blue Light Romanticism
Blueprintism
Blunt Figuration
Boatshed Modern
Bokashi-ha
Bottega del Sale
Breeze Block Lyricism
Bubble Wrap Relief
Buffering Sublime
Bund der Wandmaler
Bureaucratic Surrealism
Burlapism
Bus Depot Naturalism
Bus Shelter Romanticism

C: 37 names

Cached Memory Painting
Canalism
Candlelit Modernism
Cardboard Baroque
Cardboard Box Monumentalism
Carpark Gothic
Cathedral Futurism
Cathode Naturalism
Cerchio di Brace
Ceruleanism
Chapbook Revival
Charging Cable Still Life
Chevronism
Chyornoe Okno
Clerical Surrealism
Clip Art Classicism
Coastal Surrealism
Coffee Ring Tachism
Coilism
Color Before Line
Compagnia del Gesso
Compression Gothic
Concrete Rococo
Conference Room Landscape
Contourism
Contre le Cadre
Cornerism
Corridorism
Corrugated Vernacular
Counter-Gilding
Counter-Glaze
Counter-Vignette
Craquelurism
Crosshatchism
Crosswind Abstraction
Cursor Drawing
Cyanotype Revival

D: 48 names

Darkroom Tenebrism
Das Graue Zimmer
Das Offene Fenster
Das Rohe Bild
Das Stumme Blau
Dashcam Landscape
Dataset Still Life
Dead Pixel Pointillism
Default Settings Art
Dentist Office Pastoral
Der Blinde Spiegel
Der Graue Kreis
Der Lange Schatten
Der Rote Faden
Der Schmale Weg
Der Stille Ton
Der Zweite Blick
Desktop Wallpaper Sublime
Die Blassen
Die Dritte Hand
Die Halbe Treppe
Die Kalte Linie
Die Kleckser
Die Leisen

D, continued

Die Neue Körnung
Die Randständigen
Die Stillen Maler
Die Unfertigen
Die Unverglasten
Die Zaungäste
Disegno Nudo
Dockyard Romanticism
Domestic Surrealism
Doorbell Camera Portraiture
Dot Matrix Revival
Doubletakism
Dovetailism
Drawing After the Camera
Driftism
Driftwood Constructivism
Driftwood Modernism
Driftwoodism
Drizzlism
Dry Romanticism
Dry Stone Modern
Duskism
Dust Bunny Assemblage
Dvoynoy Gorizont

E: 11 names

Early Electric Style
Elevator Mirror Portraiture
Emberism
Embroidered Pointillism
Enamel Sign Style
Encausticism
Erasurism
Erosionism
Error Message Poetics
Expired Coupon Collage
Exposed Fastener Style

F: 16 names

Fax Paper Minimalism
Feltism
Fensterkreis
Ferry Terminal Style
Figuration Sourde
Figurazione Notturna
First Principles of the Unruled Page
Fishmarket Pop
Flat Pack Constructivism
Flatbed Scanner School
Fleckism
Flickerism
Fluorescent Realism
Frostbitten Baroque
Furrowism
Fuyu no Mado no Kai

G: 26 names

Garage Sale Renaissance
Garden Dada
Garden Shed Minimalism
Gasworksism
Gift Shop Baroque
Gildism
Girderism
Glass Plate Pastoral
Gli Imbrattatele
Gli Sbiaditi
Glimpsism
Glitch Baroque
Grant Application Formalism
Grattagism
Grayscale Impressionism
Greenhouse Mannerism
Grisaillism
Gruppa Polden
Gruppa Prichal
Gruppe Kellerlicht
Gruppe Krapprot
Gruppe Nordfenster
Gruppe Windschatten
Gruppo della Porta Verde
Gruppo Persiana Chiusa
Gruppo Ruggine

H: 27 names

Hai-iro no Wa
Hakushi-ha
Handmade Conceptualism
Hard Light Realism
Hardware Pastoral
Hardware Store Pop
Harvest Conceptualism
Harvestism
Heat Map Portraiture
Hedgerow Modernism
Hedgerowism
Hesitant Abstraction
Hesitationism
Hirusagari-ha
Honest Joint Design
Hotel Lobby Abstraction
Hushism
Hyper-Chroma
Hyper-Detail
Hyper-Figurative
Hyper-Gloss
Hyper-Legible
Hyper-Linear
Hyper-Matte
Hyper-Pastoral
Hyper-Saturation
Hyper-Sheen

I: 14 names

I Pittori del Lunedì
I Pittori del Sottoscala
I Polverosi
I Senza Bottega
Idle Machine Drawing
Il Bianco Sporco
Il Colore Muto
Il Segno Storto
Impastism
Impatient Pointillism
Indoor Impressionism
Industrial Rococo
Inlayism
Interruptionism

J: 1 name

Junk Drawer Assemblage

K: 12 names

Kage-ha
Kami to Sumi no Kai
Kasure-ha
Kawabe no Kai
Keystonism
Kholodny Tsvet
Kiri-ha
Kitchen Garden Symbolism
Kitchen Table Expressionism
Kreis der Siebzehn
Krug Nochnykh Khudozhnikov
Kumori-ha

L: 65 names

L'Art Incertain
L'Atelier du Quai Froid
L'Atelier Sans Miroir
L'École de la Rue Basse
L'École du Petit Port
L'Œil Lent
La Couleur Seule
La Fabrique des Ombres
La Ligne Tremblée
La Linea Stanca
La Main Gauche
La Mano Lenta
La Société des Fenêtres Ouvertes
Lakeside Modernism
Laminate Gothic
Lamplightism
Lantern Figuration
Lantern Slide Revival
Late Bus Mannerism
Late Fridge Magnet
Late Harbor Style
Latticism
Laundromat Kineticism
Le Brumisme
Le Cercle de l'Heure Bleue
Le Cercle des Toits
Le Dessin Pauvre
Le Groupe de la Porte Cochère
Le Groupe du Quinze Octobre
Le Mouvement de la Lampe
Le Poussiérisme
Le Réalisme Pluvieux

L, continued

Le Salon des Oubliés
Le Trait Nu
Leftover Emulsion Period
Lens Flare Mysticism
Les Amis du Papier Gris
Les Barbouilleurs
Les Blancs Cassés
Les Cendristes
Les Indépendants du Canal
Les Insoumis de la Couleur
Les Nouveaux Paysagistes
Les Ombristes
Les Peintres de l'Entresol
Les Peintres du Seuil
Les Sans-Cadre
Letterpress Revival
Lichenism
Lighthouse Functionalism
Line Before Likeness
Loading Bar Formalism
Logistics Park Landscape
Lomanaya Liniya
Loomism
Loose Pointillism
Lossy Romanticism
Lost Remote Realism
Low Tide Realism
Low-Bitrate Figuration
Lowland Mannerism
Lozengism
Luce Bassa
Lukewarm Minimalism
Lyrical Brutalism

M: 44 names

Madderism
Madobe-ha
Magnetic Tape Collage
Malerbund Grauwasser
Malergruppe Salzufer
Manifesto dell'Ombra Corta
Maquettism
Marginism
Maritime Cubism
Marshland Classicism
Masking Tape Hard Edge
Masterskaya Severnogo Sveta
Matchbox Label Style
Matchlightism
Mechanical Primitivism
Meeting Doodle Automatism
Meta-Cartography
Meta-Collage
Meta-Diagram
Meta-Diorama
Meta-Figuration
Meta-Gesture

M, continued

Meta-Landscape
Meta-Sgraffito
Meta-Sketch
Meta-Still Life
Midnight Naturalism
Mild Peril Expressionism
Minamo-ha
Miniature Brutalism
Missing Screw Constructivism
Mokraya Bumaga
Monastery Pop
Monastic Minimalism
Monsoon Impressionism
Moonwashism
Motion Blur Portraiture
Motivational Poster Classicism
Motorway Rococo
Mountain Dada
Movimento della Ringhiera
Mugon-ha
Municipal Symbolism
Murmurism

N: 44 names

Napkin Sketch Classicism
Neo-Charcoal
Neo-Devotional Painting
Neo-Emblematic
Neo-Fresco
Neo-Gouache
Neo-Grisaille
Neo-Heraldic
Neo-Illuminated
Neo-Intarsia
Neo-Lacquer
Neo-Marginalia
Neo-Marquetry
Neo-Mosaic
Neo-Pastoral Drawing
Neo-Reliquary
Neo-Silhouette
Neo-Tempera
Neo-Votive
Neo-Woodcut
Neon Classicism
Nervous Formalism

N, continued

Neue Deutlichkeit
Neue Kargheit
Neue Langsamkeit
New Coastal Drawing
New Devotional Color
New Domestic Abstraction
New Northern Figuration
New Plain Style
New Rural Geometry
New Shadow Painting
New Slow Sculpture
New Tactile Painting
Night Vision Painting
Nijimi-ha
Nocturnal Cubism
Nocturnism
Nokoribi-ha
Noonism
Nouvelle Matière
Novy Kholst
Nuova Ombra
Nuovo Affresco

O: 11 names

Obshchestvo Tikhoy Zhivopisi
Obsolete Media Revival
Officina Tramontana
Omissionism
Open Field Geometry
Open Plan Mysticism
Orchardism
Out of Office Painting
Overcast Realism
Overcastism
Overdue Library Book Aesthetic

P: 77 names

Packing Peanut Sculpture
Paint Chip Chromatics
Painting After Electricity
Painting After the Flood
Palimpsestism
Paper Constructivism
Para-Calligraphy
Para-Geometric
Para-Painting
Para-Sculpture
Parallaxism
Parish Pop
Parking Lot Sublime
Passport Photo Realism
Pastoral Constructivism
Patchism
Patinism
Peinture à Voix Basse
Pentimentism
Penumbrism
Peripheralism
Photocopier Expressionism
Pinhole Romanticism
Plasterism
Plinthism
Plotter Line Art
Plywood Classicism
Polite Expressionism
Polygon Pastoral
Post-Canvas
Post-Chromatic Abstraction
Post-Daylight Painting
Post-Easel Painting
Post-Figurative Clay
Post-Filigree
Post-Fixative
Post-Gallery Figuration
Post-Horizon Landscape

P, continued

Post-Industrial Pastel
Post-Meadow
Post-Monument Sculpture
Post-Narrative Mural
Post-Perspective Drawing
Post-Pigment
Post-Portraiture
Post-Rectangle
Post-Studio Still Life
Post-Sublime
Pouncism
Prairie Baroque
Primerism
Prompted Landscape
Proto-Abstract Weaving
Proto-Assemblage
Proto-Brutal
Proto-Cinematic Painting
Proto-Conceptual Embroidery
Proto-Digital
Proto-Flat
Proto-Gestural
Proto-Grid
Proto-Kinetic
Proto-Linocut
Proto-Minimal
Proto-Monochrome
Proto-Neon
Proto-Pixel
Proto-Poster
Proto-Serial
Proto-Stencil
Provincial Modernism
Pryamoy Ugol
Pseudo-Archaic
Pseudo-Classical Collage
Pseudo-Daguerreotype
Pseudo-Naive
Pumphouse Classicism

Q: 3 names

Quarryism
Quasi-Documentary Painting
Quiet Expressionism

R: 22 names

Railway Poster Style
Rain Gutter Symbolism
Rainy Figuration
Raster Folk
Realismo Nebbioso
Reasonable Sublime
Receipt Paper Minimalism
Refrigerator Door Naive
Reluctant Minimalism
Remainderism
Render Realism
Residuism
Riverside Brutalism
Rivetism
Roadside Realism
Rojiura-ha
Rooftop Naturalism
Rooftopism
Rough Classicism
Roundabout Monumentalism
Rural Cubism
Rustbelt Minimalism

S: 83 names

Sabi-iro-ha
Saltwater Formalism
Sample Pot Tonalism
Satellite Landscape
Scaffoldism
Scanline Landscape
Screen Burn Painting
Screensaver Symbolism
Sculpture After the Pedestal
Scumblism
Scuola del Molo
Scuola del Vicolo Cieco
Scuola di Via delle Ombre
Seamism
Seaside Conceptualism
Seaside Constructivism
Second Coat Movement
Security Camera Realism
Sedimentism
Seed Packet Style
Seijaku-ha
Self-Checkout Still Life
Selvedgism
Semi-Abstract Enamel
Semi-Figurative Weaving
Semi-Gloss Figuration
Seraya Tetrad

S, continued

Server Farm Pastoral
Severny Veter
Sezession der Stille
Sfumatism
Sgraffitism
Shardism
Shimmerism
Shin Fūkei-ha
Shin Sumi-e Undō
Shipping Container Color Field
Shiroi Kabe no Kai
Shizuka na Sen no Kai
Shopfrontism
Shy Conceptualism
Signal and Stain
Silhouettism
Siltism
Silverpointism
Sinyaya Ten
Slab Lyricism
Slantism
Slow Futurism
Small-Town Romanticism
Smearism
Smudgism
Sober Mannerism
Sock Drawer Still Life
Sodium Lamp Romanticism

S, continued

Soft Circuit Weaving
Soft Concrete
Soft Formalism
Soft-Cornered Cubism
Solder and Thread
Sootism
Soyuz Novogo Tsveta
Soyuz Uezdnykh Zhivopistsev
Spatterism
Speed Bump Land Art
Splinterism
Spreadsheet Geometry
Squintism
Stainism
Stairwell Naturalism
Stairwellism
Sticky Note Suprematism
Stipplism
Stock Photo Surrealism
Streakism
Streetlight Impressionism
Studio delle Cinque Finestre
Subarctic Expressionism
Suburban Baroque
Suburban Primitivism
Sunburnt Formalism
Sunday Dada
Synthetic Daylight

T: 351 names

Tape Measure Geometry
Tarnishism
Tasogare-ha
Temperism
Template Portraiture
Tender Cubism
Terrazzo Revival
Tesserism
Texture Map Tapestry
Thawism
The Alder Creek School
The Aldgrove Manner
The Almond Blossom Circle
The Almost Painters
The Ash Tree Circle
The Ashby Fen School
The Association of Minor Painters
The Association of Painters Without Studios
The Association of the Last Light
The Atelier of the Leaning Wall
The Atelier of Unfinished Business
The Attic Salon
The Autumn Independents
The Barge Painters
The Barn Exhibitors
The Beige Brigade
The Bellfounders Lane Painters
The Biscuit Tin Painters
The Black Kite Circle
The Blue Door Group
The Blunt Pencil Manifesto
The Boathouse School
The Brackwater School
The Brick Stackers
The Brickfield Style
The Broken Easel Group
The Brotherhood of the Burnt Stick
The Brotherhood of the Level Horizon
The Brown Sauce Painters

T, continued

The Bruise Palette
The Canal Basin Style
The Candle Shortage Style
The Canvas Spoilers
The Carding Mill Colony
The Carpet Sample Painters
The Cellar Renaissance
The Cellar Salon
The Chalk Line Group
The Chapel Row Manner
The Cinder Lane School
The Circle of Plain Things
The Circle of Seven Lamps
The Circle of the Narrow Gate
The Circle of the Open Hand
The Circle of the Pale Sun
The Circle of the Second Bridge
The Circle of the White Heron
The Clocktower Studio School
The Coldharbor School
The Coldharbor Secession
The Committee Style
The Common Front of Painters and Glaziers
The Confraternity of the Gilded Thumb
The Cooperative of Field Painters
The Copper Kettle Group
The Courtyard Exhibitors
The Crooked Horizon Men
The Curtain Fabric School
The Custard Painters
The Declaration of the Bare Studio
The Dishwater Colorists
The Dissenters of the Spring Show
The Doorstop Makers
The Draftsmen of Copper Lane
The Dry Dock Painters
The Dune Road Colony
The Dunmere School
The Dusk Sketchers of Kestrel Bay

T, continued

The Dustsheet Painters
The Eleven Theses on Color
The Elmhollow Style
The Ember Valley Colorists
The Empty Frame Group
The Estuary School
The Etchers of Pewter Street
The Fellowship of Roadside Painters
The Fellowship of the Thin Wash
The Fence Painters
The Fennholt Colony
The Ferry Landing School
The Ferry Sketchers
The Floor Sweepings
The Flyspeck Painters
The Fog Merchants
The Forty Brushstrokes Manifesto
The Foundry Yard School
The Free Union of Outdoor Painters
The Friends of Daylight
The Friends of Raw Linen
The Friends of the Unglazed Pot
The Gallery Steps Dissenters
The Glassworks School
The Gloom Painters
The Gravy School
The Gray Decade
The Gray Overcoat Group
The Green Awning Group
The Greywater Valley School
The Guild of the Painted Shutter
The Gull Island School
The Half Moon Group
The Halvorsen Studio School
The Harbor Steps Declaration
The Harbor Street Colorists
The Hartscombe School
The Hasty Brush
The Heavy Hands

T, continued

The Heron Marsh School
The Hillside Independents
The Hinge Group
The Hog Bristle Circle
The Hollin Tarn Style
The Housepainters
The Independents of the Glass Quarter
The Independents of the River Ward
The Indigo Circle
The Inkwell Spillers
The Interwar Pastel
The Jam Jar Colorists
The Kettle Cove School
The Kettle Steam Painters
The Lamp Black Years
The Lamp District Secession
The Lamp Oil Declaration
The Lamplighters' Circle
The Lantern Hill Painters
The Larkmoor School
The Late Train Group
The Laundry Yard Salon
The League of Morning Painters
The League of Rejected Canvases
The League of the Bare Wall
The League of the Crooked Line
The Left Bank of the Canal
The Lichen Tendency
The Lindenmoor School
The Linen Front
The Lint Collectors
The Little Thaw
The Long Monochrome
The Long Table Group
The Loose Wrists
The Low Meadow Manner
The Lower Quay School
The Manifesto Against Gold Frames
The Manifesto of Ordinary Light

T, continued

The Manifesto of the Borrowed Brush
The Manifesto of the Closed Eye
The Manifesto of the Unsigned
The Manifesto of Useful Beauty
The Maris Bay Colony
The Marrow Street Secession
The Marrowfield School
The Mashed Potato Modelers
The Midnight Salon
The Mildewists
The Milestone Sketchers of the East Road
The Mill Workers' Art Cooperative
The Millrace School
The Mud Painters
The Muralists of Station Road
The Narrow Gauge Tendency
The New Daylight
The New Dimness
The New Flatness
The New Front for Flat Color
The New Handwork
The New Likeness
The New Opacity
The New Ornament
The New Patience
The New Plainness
The New Roughness
The New Stillness
The New Tenderness
The New Vertical
The New Weight
The Night Exhibition Painters
The Night of the Open Studios
The Northgate Print School
The Nothing Painters
The Old Cannery School
The Open Air Exhibitors
The Open Drawer Program
The Open Shutter Group

T, continued

The Orchard Terrace School
The Osprey Point Colony
The Paint Wasters
The Painters of the Sixth Room
The Paper Lantern Group
The Pell Street School
The Phosphor Green Tendency
The Pinewater Colony
The Plain Chair Movement
The Plumb Line Group
The Plywood Renaissance
The Porridge Palette
The Port Varen School
The Postage Stamp Painters
The Potters' Secession
The Printmakers of Ink Alley
The Printmakers' Secession
The Program for a Portable Mural
The Puddle Makers
The Putty Sculptors
The Quarry Program
The Quarry Road School
The Quiet Secession
The Quince Group
The Rag and Turpentine Set
The Rationed Palette
The Raw Canvas Manifesto
The Red Ladder Group
The Refused of the Harbor Show
The Returned Unopened
The River Arcade Colorists
The Riverside Secession
The Ropewalk School
The Rubbed-Out
The Sackcloth Set
The Saddlers Yard School
The Salon of Lesser Lights
The Salon of Small Formats
The Salon of the Overlooked

T, continued

The Salon of the Unhung
The Salon of Turned Canvases
The Salon Without Walls
The Salt Cellar Group
The Salt Flats School
The Saltbox Tendency
The Sandgate Pier Manner
The Scrap Heap Sculptors
The Secession of the Nineteen
The Second Flatwork Wave
The Second Varnmouth Secession
The Seekers of the Plain Line
The Shallow Space Declaration
The Shoreline Ramblers
The Short Summer of Color
The Sign Daubers
The Signal Box Painters
The Sisterhood of the Green Glaze
The Sisterhood of the Loom and Brush
The Skylight Group
The Slate Quarry Painters
The Slightly Crooked School
The Sloppy Brush
The Small Harbor Renaissance
The Smudgers
The Society of Evening Painters
The Society of Honest Shadows
The Society of Nine Windows
The Society of Northern Light
The Society of Seasonal Colorists
The Society of the Bent Nail
The Society of the Second Sitting
The Society of the Unprimed Canvas
The Soot and Vinegar School
The Soup Stainers
The Split Canvas Group
The Squinters
The Stairwell Front
The Stonebridge School

T, continued

The Studio of Four Winds
The Studio of the Low Sun
The Sunday Smearers
The Tablecloth Painters
The Tannery Row School
The Theses on the Empty Corner
The Third Floor Group
The Third Ornament Wave
The Thornwick Painters
The Thumbprinters
The Tidewater Circle
The Tin Roof Group
The Tin Shed Renaissance
The Toddler School
The Tollhouse School
The Tracing Paper School
The Tramshed School
The Unframed Tendency
The Union of Night Draftsmen
The Union of the Ochre Hand
The Union of the Thirteen Rooms
The Union of Unframed Painters
The Unlit Lamp Group
The Unvarnished
The Upper Mill School
The Upside-Down Painters
The Varnish Dodgers
The Varnishing Day Dissenters
The Varnmouth Colorists
The Vesper Circle
The Vineyard Hill School
The Wallpaperers
The Watercolorists of Reed Lake
The Wax Paper Tendency
The Weir Street Painters
The Wet Paint Crowd
The Wet Plaster Manifesto
The Wet Slate Group
The Whitewash Declaration

T, continued

The Whitewashers
The Wick Street School
The Winter Circle
The Winter Garden School
The Winter Secession
The Workshop for Useful Painting
The Workshop of the Third Bell
The Year Without Varnish
The Yellow Staircase Group
Thermal Abstraction
Thermal Print Portraiture
Threadbare Realism
Threadism
Thresholdism
Thumbnail Monumentalism
Ticket Hall Moderne
Tidal Abstraction
Tikhy Svet
Tiltism
Timber Futurism
Timber Rationalism
Timetablism
Tinselism
Tintype Naturalism
Toward a Cheaper Blue
Toward a Poorer Palette
Toward a Slower Painting
Toward a Weightless Sculpture
Toward the Unheroic Portrait
Traffic Cone Fauvism
Tramline Deco
Trans-Material Painting
Trans-Panorama
Tremblism
Tretya Kist
Truth to Plaster
Tsuki no Fune no Kai
Tubular Steel Pastoral
Tyomnaya Voda

U: 10 names

Ultra-Miniature
Ultra-Pale
Ultra-Thin Painting
Ultra-Wide Landscape
Umberism
Underpaintism
Unfinished Basement Style
Unfinishism
Upholstered Abstraction
Usuzumi-ha

V: 9 names

Vector Devotional
Velvet Brutalism
Vending Machine Still Life
Veneerism
Verdigrism
Vermilionism
Viaductism
Viridianism
Vtoroy Svet

W: 15 names

Waiting Room Sublime
Wall Text Expressionism
Watermark Painting
Waterworks Revival
Waverism
Wayside Figuration
Weatherism
Weekday Surrealism
Weftism
Werkstatt Ostwind
Wet Pointillism
Windowism
Winter Symbolism
Wireframe Classicism
Woodtype Grotesque

Y: 3 names

Yohaku-ha
Yūgure Bijutsu Kyōkai
Yukidoke-ha

Z: 5 names

Zanzō-ha
Zeichnerbund Niederwasser
Zhyoltaya Stena
Zigzagism
Zimnyaya Masterskaya

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