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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 …
The Ancients
The Ancients were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake in the last …
The black aesthetic
The black aesthetic is a cultural ideology that developed in America alongside the civil rights movement in the 1960s and …
The Clique
The Clique was an informal society formed in around 1837 by a group of friends while they were students at …
The Photo-Secession
Group of American photographers who believed that photography was a fine art
The Seven and Five Society
Formed in London in 1919 The Seven and Five Society was initially a traditional group and can be seen as …
Tableau
Tableau is used to describe a painting or photograph in which characters are arranged for picturesque or dramatic effect and …
Tachisme
Term used to describe the non-geometric abstract art that developed in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s characterized by spontaneous …
Tempera
The technique of painting with pigments bound in a water-soluble emulsion, such as water and egg yolk, or an oil-in-water …
Time-based media
Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension
Tone
The lightness or darkness of something – this could be a shade, or how dark or light a colour appears
Transavanguardia
Italian neo-expressionist group formed in the late 1970s
Triptych
An artwork in three panels
Trompe l'oeil
French phrase meaning ‘deceives the eye’ used to describe paintings that create the illusion of a real object or scene
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°Õ°ù´Ç±è¾±³¦Ã¡±ô¾±²¹ is used to describe the explosion of cultural creativity in Rio de Janerio and São Paulo in 1968 as …
Unit One
British group formed by Paul Nash in 1933 to promote modern art, architecture and design
Useful Art Association
The Useful Art Association was started in New York by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and promotes the idea of …
Vanishing point
The point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge
Vanitas
A still life artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the …