r/arttheory
ActiveArt Theory
**LIST OF ART THEORY SUBREDDITS:** ------ * /r/Aesthetics * /r/AbstractExpressionism * /r/ConceptArt * /r/Constructivism * /r/ContemporaryArt * /r/Cubism * /r/CriticalTheory * /r/Dadaism * /r/Deconstructivism * /r/Expressionism * /r/Fauvism * /r/FilmTheory * /r/Formalism * /r/Futurism * /r/Impressionism * /r/MagicRealism * /r/Modernism * /r/NeoImpressionism * /r/NeoClassicism * /r/Oratorio * /r/Postmodernism * /r/Rococo * /r/RussianFormalism * /r/Situationism * /r/Surrealism * /r/SocialistArt * /r/Vorticism * /r/VisCulture **[See a MULTI of all the subreddits here](http://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalTheory+Aesthetics+AbstractExpressionism+ConceptArt+Constructivism+ContemporaryArt+Cubism+Dadaism+Deconstructivism+Expressionism+Fauvism+Futurism+Impressionism+MagicRealism+Modernism+NeoImpressionism+NeoClassicism+Postmodernism+SphereTheory+FilmTheory+Situationism+RussianFormalism+Surrealism+SocialistRealism+oratorio+SocialistArt+Rococo+Vorticism+VisCulture/new)** Have any additions? Please PM the moderators to have your subreddit added to the list. This is a work in progress, with the aim of keeping these traditions of art alive in the face of "the end of art".
Members
10,477
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 27, 2026
Posts (30 days)
70
Created
2010
October 2, 2010
Total posts
1.3K
archived
Total comments
3.3K
archived
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r/arttheory was created on October 2, 2010.
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