{"id":50265,"date":"2026-07-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/?p=50265"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:42:41","slug":"250-years-of-american-art-the-movements-that-defined-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/250-years-of-american-art-the-movements-that-defined-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"250 Years of American Art: The Movements That Defined a Nation | iCanvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The major American art movements span 250 years, 10 distinct styles, and one ongoing argument about what this country is and who gets to define it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Hudson River School’s sweeping wilderness landscapes to the raw energy of Basquiat’s streets, each movement was shaped by the social and political forces of its time and left something on the walls that’s still worth looking at today. This is the full story, told movement by movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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