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The term art intervention applies to art designed specifically to interact with an existing structure or situation, be it another …

Art nouveau is an international style in architecture and design that emerged in the 1890s and is characterised by sinuous …

Arte de los medios de comunicación de masas (art of the mass media) was an experimental arts group formed in …

Arte Madí was an artistic group formed in Buenos Aires in 1944 devoted to pure geometric abstraction

The Artist Placement Group was founded in 1966 with the aim of placing artists in government, commercial and industrial organisations

Artists International Association was an exhibiting society founded in London in 1933, which held exhibitions and events to promote and …

Ashcan School was a group of North American artists who used realist techniques to depict social deprivation and injustice in …

Founded by Tomás Maldonado in 1944, the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (Concrete-Invention Art Association) was one of two artistic groups formed …

Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or …

Atelier is a French word that translates literally as studio or workshop and is often used to denote a group …

Attribute has different meanings as a noun and a verb: An attribute (noun) in art is an object or animal …

Aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques – such as photography

Auto-destructive art is a term invented by the artist Gustav Metzger in the early 1960s to describe radical artworks made …

Autograph ABP are an influential photography collective set up in 1988 to support photographers from racial minorities, and also to …

Baroque was the dominant style in art and architecture of the seventeenth century, characterized by self-confidence, dynamism and a realistic …

The Beaux Arts Quartet was name given to a group of four young realist painters whose work was exhibited at …

A biennial is a large international art exhibition held every two years

Biomorphic forms or images are ones that while abstract nevertheless refer to, or evoke, living forms such as plants and …

Bitumen is a naturally-occurring, non-drying, tarry substance used in paint mixtures, especially to enrich the appearance of dark tones

The black arts movement was an ideological movement that emerged in the USA in the early 1960s when black artists …