Featured Art Terms
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 Art informel
Art informel is a French term describing a swathe of approaches to abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s which ...
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 ...
G German expressionism
German expressionism was an early twentieth century German art movement that emphasized the artist's inner feelings or ideas over replicating ...
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 Installation art
The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a ...
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 Renaissance
French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy ...
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 ...