(1870-1886) Impressionnisme Français
Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927), Édouard Manet (1832–1883), Claude Monet (1840–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Alfred Sisley (1839–1899)
(1886-1905) Post-Impressionnisme
Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Paul Signac, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Odilon Redon, Paul Serusier, Edouard Vuillard.
(1905-1908) Fauvisme
Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Andre Derain, Kees van Dongen, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck.
(1905-1920) Expressionisme Allemand
Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Fritz Bleyl, Heinrich Campendonk, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Carl Hofer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, August Macke, Franz Marc, Ludwig Meidner, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Mueller, Gabriele Münter, Rolf Nesch, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
(1907-1914) Cubisme
Georges Braque, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Henri Laurens, Pablo Picasso.
(1909-1914) Futurisme
Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini.
(1915-1924) Dadaisme
Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters.
(1920-1950) Première et deuxième (à partir de 1948) génération d'artistes Chinois à Paris
(1924-1966) Surréalisme
Andre Breton, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy.
(1943-1965) Expressionnisme Abstrait New-Yorkais
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko. Others included Joan Mitchell, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner, Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Elaine de Kooning, Alfred Leslie, Jack Tworkov.
(1945-1970) Abstrait Européen
Chu Teh-Chun, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Yves Klein, Georges Mathieu, Serge Poliakoff, Gehrard Richter, Vieira da Silva, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Zao Wou-Ki.
(1950s-1960s) Pop Art
Peter Blake, Jim Dine, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Wayne Thiebaud, Tom Wesselman, Andy Warhol.
(1955-1972) Gutai
Jiro Yoshihara, Akira Kanayama, Chiyu Uemae, Saburo Murakami, Kazuo Shiraga, Shozo Shimamoto, Atsuko Tanaka, Sadamasa Motonaga, Yutaka Matsuda, Yuko Nasaka, Minoru Yoshida, Minoru Onoda, Hirosi Nagare, Yasuo Sumi.
(1960s-1970s) Minimalisme
Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Tony Smith, Frank Stella.
(1960s to the mid-1970s) Art Conceptuel
John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Chris Burden, Gilbert & George, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni, Bernar Venet, Yoko Ono.