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Kitsch
Kitsch is the German word for trash, and is used in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms …
Laboratoire Agit’Art
Founded in Dakar in 1974, Laboratoire Agit’Art was a revolutionary and subversive art collective that sought to combine traditional African …
Lightbox
A lightbox is a box with a translucent white surface fitted with an internal light source, commonly a fluorescent tube …
Linocut
A linocut is a relief print produced in a manner similar to a woodcut but that uses linoleum as the …
Lithography
Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked …
Luminism
Luminism means roughly, the painting of light and is applied specifically to the American landscape painters of the Hudson River …
Magic realism
The term magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 to describe …
Mail art
Mail art is a movement based on the principle of sending small scale works through the postal service
Mannerist
Mannerist is a sixteenth century style of art and design characterised by artificiality, elegance and sensuous distortion of the human …
Maquette
A maquette is model for a larger piece of sculpture, created in order to visualise how it might look and …
Market Photo Workshop
Founded by the documentary photographer David Goldblatt in 1989, Market Photo Workshop was originally set up to support black photographers …
Matter painting
Matter painting refers to the technique of using thick impasto paint into which other materials such as sand, mud, cement …
Medium
Medium can refer to both to the type of art (e.g. painting, sculpture, printmaking), as well as the materials an …
Memento mori
A memento mori is an artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the shortness and fragility …
Merz
Merz is a nonsense word invented by the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works …
Metal
Metal is a solid, hard, opaque material that has been used by sculptors since ancient times
Metaphysical Art
Metaphysical Art (the translation of the Italian Pittura Metafisica) was an early twentieth century Italian art movement typified by dream-like …
Mezzotint
Mezzotint is an engraving technique developed in the seventeenth century which allows for the creation of prints with soft gradations …
Minjung art
Minjung art was a South Korean socio-political art movement that emerged in 1980 after the Gwangju Massacre, in which some …
