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Asian modern art movements

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Baroda school

The Baroda school is a movement in modern Indian art tied to the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, known for narrative figuration.

Bengal School of Art

The Bengal School of Art was an early twentieth-century Indian movement founded in Calcutta by E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore that rejected Western academic realism for a nationalist style.

Dansaekhwa

Dansaekhwa (단색화, Korean for "monochrome painting") is a school of monochrome abstract painting that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, known for repetitive techniques like pushing paint through cloth.

Gutai Art Association

The Gutai Art Association (具体美術協会, Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai) was a Japanese avant-garde artist group founded around painter Jiro Yoshihara in Ashiya in 1954, known for radical experiments with materials.

New Woodcut Movement

The New Woodcut Movement (新兴木刻运动, also called 新兴版画运动) was a Chinese art movement of the 1930s and 1940s, initiated and led by the writer Lu Xun.

Progressive Artists' Group

The Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) was an artists' collective founded in Bombay in 1947, months after Indian independence, to create a modern Indian art breaking with colonial and revivalist conventions.

Santiniketan school

The Santiniketan school was a group of artists active at Santiniketan in West Bengal from 1921, led by Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Benodebehari Mukherjee, and Ramkinkar Baij.

Shin-hanga

Shin-hanga (新版画, "new prints") is a Japanese woodblock print movement, created and led by the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, that revived ukiyo-e collaborative production from around 1915 into the 1960s.