ART TERMS

Established in 1906, the Abbaye de Créteil was a group of French writers, artists and composers who were inspired by …

Baroque was the dominant style in art and architecture of the seventeenth century, characterized by self-confidence, dynamism and a realistic …

Cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) is a collaborative drawing approach first used by surrealist artists to create bizarre and intuitive drawings

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and …

An edition is a copy or replica of a work of art made from a master. It commonly refers to …

Fairy painting is particularly associated with the Victorian period, art that depicts fairies and other subjects from the supernatural

Generative art is art made using a predetermined system that often includes an element of chance – is usually applied …

Hackney Flashers was a women’s arts collective active between 1974 and 1980. Most of the group were photographers and defined …

The iconography of an artwork is the imagery within it

Japonisme is a French term coined in the late nineteenth century to describe the craze for Japanese art and design …

The Khartoum School was a modernist art movement formed in Sudan in 1960 that sought to develop a new visual …

Founded in Dakar in 1974, Laboratoire Agit’Art was a revolutionary and subversive art collective that sought to combine traditional African …

The term magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 to describe …

Les Nabis were a group of post-impressionist French painters active from 1888–1900 whose work is characterised by flat patches of …

The term objective abstraction refers to a non-geometric style of abstract art developed by a group of British artists in …

Painterly refers to the application of paint in a 'loose' or less than controlled manner, resulting in the appearance of …

Photographic prints made by laying objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light

Originally the name of the official art exhibitions organised by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Académie Royale …

Tableau is used to describe a painting or photograph in which characters are arranged for picturesque or dramatic effect and …

First used in relation to the cultural phenomenon of the 1960s and early 1970s where groups of artists, writers and …

The point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge

War artists are artists who are commissioned through an official scheme to record the events of war

The label Young British Artists (YBAs) is applied to a loose group of British artists who began to exhibit together …

Group of artists who practised a form of kinetic art using light and motion

43 Group was a modern art movement formed in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1943 by a group of …