I'm going with the Oxford Dictionary of Art capitalization. -->>sparkit|TALK<< 01:21, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Capitalization comparisons

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  • The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Art 1988 ISBN 0192800221
  • Grove Dictionary of Art and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms: both available on Oxford Art Online
  • Association of Art Editors Style Guide (2006, rev. 2013)
  • Ritter, R. M. (2005). New Hart's Rules: The Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Art movements/styles

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Note: I've gone with capitalizing art movement names. It just seems clearer.

Wikipedia
(as of 11-01-2015)
Encyclopædia Britannica American Heritage Dictionary Oxford Dictionary Cambridge Dictionary Oxford Dictionary of Art Grove Dictionary of Art The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms Association of Art Editors Style Guide
Abstract expressionism Abstract Expressionism abstract expressionism abstract expressionism (not found) Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism
Art Deco Art Deco art deco art deco art deco Art Deco Art Deco Art Deco Art Deco or art deco
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau art nouveau art nouveau art nouveau Art Nouveau Art Nouveau Art Nouveau Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts movement Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts Movement (not found) (not found) Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts movement or Arts and Crafts Movement
Ashcan School Ashcan School Ashcan school (not found) (not found) Ash-can School Ashcan school Ashcan School Ashcan school or Ashcan School
avant-garde avant-garde avant-garde avant-garde avant-garde (not found) (not found) (not found) avant-garde
Barbizon school Barbizon school Barbizon school (not found) (not found) Barbizon School Barbizon school Barbizon School (not found)
Bauhaus Bauhaus Bauhaus (not found) (not found) Bauhaus Bauhaus Bauhaus Bauhaus
classicism Classicism classicism classicism Classicism classicism (except for Greek Classicism of the fifth century)
Color Field colour-field painting color-field (not found) (not found) Colour Field painting Colour field painting Colour Field painting Color Field painting or color field painting or color-field painting
conceptual art conceptual art conceptual art (not found) (not found) Conceptual art conceptual art Conceptual art Conceptual Art or Conceptual art or conceptual art
Cubism Cubism cubism cubism Cubism Cubism Cubism Cubism Cubism / Cubist
Dada Dada Dadaism Dadaism (not found) -- Dada (and Dadaists) Dada / (Dadaism not found) / Dadaist(s) Dada / (Dadaism not found) / (Dadaists not found) Dada / Dadaism
De Stijl De Stijl de Stijl (not found) De Stijl (but listed under Stijl, De) De stijl (with italics) in running text; listed under Stijl, De De Stijl de Stijl
Expressionism Expressionism expressionism expressionism Expressionism Expressionism Expressionism Expressionism for the movement; expressionism noted as a "term which implies heightened subjectivity or emotion" expressionism / Expressionism / expressionist
Fauvism Fauvism fauvism fauvism (not found) Fauvism Fauvism Fauvism Fauvism
Futurism Futurism futurism Futurism (not found) Futurism Futurism Futurism Futurism / Futurist
Hudson River School Hudson River school Hudson River school (not found) (not found) Hudson River School Hudson River school Hudson River School Hudson River school
Impressionism Impressionism impressionism or Impressionism Impressionism Impressionism Impressionism Impressionism
Magic realism Magic Realism magic realism magic realism (not found) Magic(al) Realism Magic Realism Magic realism (not found)
Mannerism Mannerism Mannerism Mannerism Mannerism Mannerism
Neoclassicism Neoclassicism Neoclassicism Neo-classicism Neoclassicism Neoclassic(ism) / Neoclassical
neo-expressionist Neo-Expressionism neo-expressionism (not found) (not found) (not found) Neo-Expressionism Neo-Expressionism (not found)
(N/n)eo-impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (not found) neoimpressionism neo-Impressionism (not found) Neo-Impressionism Neo-Impressionism Neo-Impressionism Neo-Impressionism
(no article) (not found) Neo-Surrealism or neo-surrealism (not found) (not found) (not found) (no dedicated entry; neo-Surrealism (×2) and neo-surrealism (×1) both appear in articles) (not found) (not found)
neoplasticism neoplasticism and Neoplasticism neoplasticism (not found) (not found) Neo-Plasticism Neo-plasticism Neo-Plasticism (not found)
Orphism Orphism orphism (not found) (not found) Orphism (or Orphic Cubism) Orphism Orphism (not found)
Pointillism pontillism (×3) and Pointillism (×1) pointillism Pointillism Pointillism (not found)
pop art Pop art pop art pop art pop art Pop art Pop art Pop art Pop Art or Pop art
Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism postimpressionism Post-Impressionism / Post-Impressionist Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism
Realism realism realism realism (but Superrealism) Realism Realism / Superrealism Realism (for the 19th-century movement)
Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance
Romanticism Romanticism romanticism romanticism Romanticism Romanticism Romanticism Romanticism Romantic period; Romantic(ism)
Surrealism Surrealism surrealism surrealism Surrealism Surrealism Surrealism / Surrealist(s) Surrealism Surrealism / Surrealist
symbolism Symbolism Symbolism Symbolism Symbolism Symbolism Symbolism Symbolism (specific style)
Vorticism Vorticism Vorticism Vorticism / Vorticist Vorticism (not found)
  • New Hart's Rules: "Capitalize the names of institutions, organizations, societies, movements, and groups"... e.g. "the Ashcan School"... "The tendency otherwise is to use lower case unless it is important to distinguish a specific from a general meaning"... "Classicists... will often capitalize Classical to define, say, sculpture in the fifth century BC as opposed to that of the Hellenistic era" (p. 92).
  • The Guardian and Observer Style Guide: "art movements are generally lowercase, eg art deco, art nouveau, cubism, dadaism, expressionism, gothic, impressionism, pop art, surrealism, etc, but note Bauhaus, Modern (in the sense of Modern British, to distinguish it from "modern art", pre-Raphaelite, Romantic (to differentiate between a romantic painting and a Romantic painting)".[1]
  1. ^ "Guardian and Observer style guide: A". Retrieved 5 February 2015.

Name spelling

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Frédéric Bazille

Georges Braque

André Breton

Eugène Boudin

Paul Cézanne

Gustave Courbet

Salvador Dalí

Edgar Degas

André Derain

Marcel Duchamp

Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Rrose Sélavy

Jules Dupré

Antoni Gaudí

Marcel Janco

Édouard Manet

Henri Matisse

Joan Miró

Claude Monet

Gustave Moreau

Berthe Morisot

Edvard Munch

Georgia O'Keeffe

Francis Picabia

Camille Pissarro

Auguste Rodin

Georges Rouault

Théodore Rousseau

Georges-Pierre Seurat

Sophie Täuber

J. M. W. Turner

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

James Turrell

Tristan Tzara

Jacques Villon

Artwork names

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Le déjeuner sur l'herbe - The Luncheon on the Grass

Impression, soleil levant - Impression, Sunrise


Other

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Musée National d'Art Moderne

plein air

Salon d'Automne

Salon des Indépendants

Salon des Refusés - Salon of the Refused

Société des Artistes Indépendants