Mid- and Late Twentieth-Century Movements

The movements of the mid to late twentieth century across painting, sculpture and, as a deliberate placement call, jazz music, grouped together as the American and international art of that period rather than segregated by medium: Abstract Expressionism's gestural painting, American Modernism, the broader label Modernism, Pop Art's embrace of consumer imagery, Minimalism's reduction to essential form, Postmodernism's ironic pluralism, the politically engaged Muralism of twentieth-century Mexico, and Jazz as the era's major American musical movement. Belongs here: Abstract Expressionism, American Modernism, Modernism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postmodernism, Muralism, Jazz. Does not belong here: an earlier twentieth-century avant-garde movement, which is grouped under Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde.