Analytical painting (also planned painting) is a contemporary art movement of the 1970s.
With Concept Art as its precursor, it is an art movement that reflects on and analyses the fundamentals and possibilities of painting with painterly means. The name comes from Klaus Honnef. Closely related terms are "Fundamental Painting", "Planned Painting" or "Essential Painting". Essential is the "reduction" of painting to a painting that shows only itself and has no relationship, however remote, to the world outside the painting. The years between 1972 and 1977 were the decisive years of public perception.