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Primitivism
The former definition of primitivism was outdated and misrepresented important and factual perspectives, so this text has been temporarily removed …
Process art
The term process art refers to where the process of its making art is not hidden but remains a prominent …
Proof
Proof is a printing term applied to all individual impressions made before work on a printing plate or block is …
Proportion
Proportion is the relationship of one part of a whole to other parts
Psychedelic art
Psychedelic art is generally associated with the 1960s and work made by artists under the influence of the mind-expanding drug …
Purism
Purism was a movement formed around 1918 which proposed a kind of painting in which objects are represented as powerful …
Rayograph
Photographic prints made by laying objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light
Rayonism
An early form of abstract art characterised by interacting linear forms derived from rays of light
Réalités nouvelles
The Salon des Réalités nouvelles (new realities) was an exhibiting society devoted to pure abstract art founded in Paris in …
Rebel Art Centre
The Rebel Art Centre was founded by Wyndham Lewis in London in March 1914 as a meeting place for artists …
Relief
A relief is a wall-mounted sculpture in which the three-dimensional elements are raised from a flat base
Renaissance
French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy …
Replica
A copy of a work of art that is virtually indistinguishable from the original
Reportage painting
Reportage painting was a Japanese post-war art movement that emerged in the early 1950s in opposition to the presence of …
Representational
Blanket term for art that represents some aspect of reality, in a more or less straightforward way
Resin
A usually transparent solid or semi-solid substance sometimes used as a medium by sculptors
Return to order
A European art movement that came about following the First World War and characterized by a return to more traditional …
Rococo
Light, sensuous, intensely decorative French style developed in the early eighteenth century following death of Louis XIV and in reaction …
Rural naturalism
Nineteenth century painting movement characterized by scenes of rural life painted in a realist, often sentimentalised, manner
Ruralists
Group of British artists founded in 1975 who aimed to revive the painting of figure subjects in idyllic rural settings