Showing 31–41 of 41 art terms
Stuckism
Founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in 1999, Stuckism is an art movement that is anti-conceptual and champions figurative …
Subjective photography
Subjective photography was an international movement founded in Germany by the photographer Otto Steinert in 1951 which championed photography that …
Sublime
Theory developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as art that refers to …
Supra-sensorial
Supra-sensorial is a term devised by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica to describe the experience of being in one of …
Suprematism
Name given by the artist Kazimir Malevich to the abstract art he developed from 1913 characterised by basic geometric forms, …
Surrealism
A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and …
Symbolism
Late nineteenth-century movement that advocated the expression of an idea over the realistic description of the natural world
Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia (or synesthesia) is a neurological condition in which the stimulation of a sense (like touch or hearing) leads involuntarily …
Synthetic cubism
Synthetic cubism is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to run from about 1912 to 1914, characterised by simpler …
Synthetism
Term associated with the style of symbolic representation adopted by Paul Gauguin and his followers in the 1880s characterised by …
Systems art
Loosely describes a group of radical artists working in the late 1960s early 1970s who reacted against art’s traditional focus …