Wiktionary
n. (context arts English) Any of many styles of art having an underlying philosophy or goal; many of them have names with an ''-ism'' suffix.
WordNet
n. a group of artists who agree on general principles [syn: artistic movement]
Wikipedia
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde.
Usage examples of "art movement".
This gifted youngster eventually became a leader in the Pop Art movement because of the mechanical precision of his reproductions of tinned foods.
And if we 't blown most of the twentieth century on fascism and communism and the rest of the ism bullshit, maybe we tiM have built something decent, and besides, no matter at Taney says, Art Nouveau was the last really truly looking graphic-art movement.
It is not to be taken as a responsible history of the Abstract Expressionist school of painting, the first major art movement to originate in the United States of America.