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

In its most basic form sampling simply re-processes existing culture, usually technologically, in much the same way a collage does

Avant-garde art school (Academia Altamira) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in 1946 with the aim of promoting the idea that …

In the early years of the twentieth century, Paris became a magnet for artists from all over the world and …

Group of four Scottish artists, who were among the first to introduce the intense colour of the French fauve movement …

Scuola romana (School of Rome) is an umbrella term for the artists based in Rome, or having close links with …

Serial art is art that adheres to a strict set of rules to determine its composition or to determine a …

A term from Greek Platonic philosophy that meant a copy of a copy of an ideal form

Revolutionary alliance of European avant-garde artists, writers and poets formed at a conference in Italy in 1957 (as Internationale Situationiste …

Refers to any realist painting that also carries a clearly discernible social or political comment

Technique that involves exposing a partially developed photograph to light, before continuing processing, creating halo-like effects

Italian movement started by the Argentine-born Italian artist Lucio Fontana in 1947 who, in its manifesto, stated that art should …

Spiral was a New York based African American collective formed in 1963 with the aim of addressing how African American …

A loose association of painters who lived in the St John’s Wood area of London in the 1870s and 1880s, …

Founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in 1999, Stuckism is an art movement that is anti-conceptual and champions figurative …

Subjective photography was an international movement founded in Germany by the photographer Otto Steinert in 1951 which championed photography that …

Supra-sensorial is a term devised by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica to describe the experience of being in one of …

Late nineteenth-century movement that advocated the expression of an idea over the realistic description of the natural world

Synaesthesia (or synesthesia) is a neurological condition in which the stimulation of a sense (like touch or hearing) leads involuntarily …

Synthetic cubism is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to run from about 1912 to 1914, characterised by simpler …