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Performance art
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous ...
Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), founded in London in 1848. They were opposed ...
Impressionism
Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and ...
Land art
Land art or earth art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks ...
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A Abbaye de Créteil
Established in 1906, the Abbaye de Créteil was a group of French writers, artists and composers who were inspired by ...
B British impressionism
British impressionism describes the work of artists working in Britain in the late nineteenth-century who were influenced by the ideas ...
D Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter was a German expressionist group originating in Munich in 1909
E Electronic media
The most common examples of electronic media are video recordings, audio recordings, slide presentations, CD-ROM and online content
F Found object
A found object is a natural or man-made object, or fragment of an object, that is found (or sometimes bought ...
H Hackney Flashers
Hackney Flashers was a women’s arts collective active between 1974 and 1980. Most of the group were photographers and defined ...
I Il Novecento Italiano
Il Novecento Italiano was an Italian group formed in 1922 with the aim of reviving the tradition of large format ...
N Naturalism
Naturalism was a broad movement in the nineteenth century which represented things closer to the way we see them
O Objective abstraction
The term objective abstraction refers to a non-geometric style of abstract art developed by a group of British artists in ...
R Relational aesthetics
Term created by curator Nicholas Bourriaud in the 1990s to describe the tendency to make art based on, or inspired ...
S School of Altamira
Avant-garde art school (Academia Altamira) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in 1946 with the aim of promoting the idea that ...
T Time-based media
Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension
U Useful Art Association
The Useful Art Association was started in New York by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and promotes the idea of ...
W Wood engraving
A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being ...
Y Young British Artists (YBAs)
The label Young British Artists (YBAs) is applied to a loose group of British artists who began to exhibit together ...