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Verism
From Italian term 'verismo', meaning realism in its sense of gritty subject matter
Verso / recto
Terms used for the front and back of a single sheet of paper, or the right-hand and left-hand page of …
Virtual reality
A technology that enables a person to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it based on a real or an …
Visual ethnography
Ethnography is the study and interpretation of social organisations and cultures in everyday life. It is a research-based methodology, and …
Vitrine
A large, glass cabinet used for displaying art objects
Washington Color School
The Washinton Color School was an art movement founded by Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland that emerged in the late …
Watercolour
Refers both to the medium and works of art made using the medium of watercolour – a water soluble paint …
Watermark
An image or mark in a sheet of paper (usually the papermaker's trademark) visible when viewed by transmitted light
Wood engraving
A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being …
Zero
Group of artists who practised a form of kinetic art using light and motion
David Austen on Alberto Giacometti
Writer David Austen reflects on Alberto Giacometti’s work Hour of the Traces
Andy Warhol's Mother
Find out how Warhol stumbled across 'The Real America' in the pantry of a woman who never adapted to the …
Me and Andy Warhol... and Ronald Reagan
Hear Andy Warhol's friend, Bob Colachello share his take on the artist
J.M.W. Turner and Cy Twombly
Liu Xiaodong discusses the links between the work of J.M.W. Turner and Cy Twombly
The Painter Princess
Turkish-born Fahrelnissa Zeid created extraordinary paintings that mix Islamic, Byzantine, Arab, Persian and European influences
The exquisite eccentric: by Rasha Salti
A friend remembers the life and art of pioneering Lebanese artist Salouda Raouda Choucair
Peter Jackson on Ray Harryhausen
To coincide with a display of art by special effects creator Ray Harryhausen and works from his collection, a fellow …
Decolonising Nigerian Modernism: Ben Enwonwu’s ‘Identity in Politics’
The personal archive of the celebrated Nigerian modernist painter Ben Enwonwu (1917–1994) reveals his understanding of the effects of colonialism …
Painting the Global History of Art: Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the Negro
This paper shows how African American artist Hale Woodruff’s 1950–1 mural cycle The Art of the Negro depicts a transcultural …
Performing Global African Culture and Citizenship: Major Pan-African Cultural Festivals from Dakar 1966 to FESTAC 1977
This article traces the ways in which the understanding and expression of global African culture and citizenship evolved across a …