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Conversation piece
A conversation piece is an informal group portrait popular in the eighteenth century, small in scale and showing people – …
Court
Court painters were artists employed by royal courts to paint portraits of the royal family and their courtiers
Creolisation
Originally a Caribbean concept, creolisation describes the mixing together of different people and cultures to become one
Crypt Group
The Crypt Group were a splinter group of the St Ives Society of Artists made up of artists who worked …
Decadence
Decadence generally refers to an extreme manifestation of symbolism which appeared towards the end of the nineteenth century and emphasised …
Decalcomania
Decalcomania is a blotting process whereby paint is squeezed between two surfaces to create a mirror image
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¶Ù鳦´Ç±ô±ô²¹²µ±ð is a French word meaning literally to unstick, generally associated with a process used by artists of the nouveau …
Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a form of criticism first used by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1970s which asserts that there …
Diptych
A diptych is an artwork consisting of two painted or carved panels
Direct carving
Direct carving is an approach to making carved sculpture where the actual process of carving suggests the final form rather …
Divisionism
Divisionism is a late nineteenth century painting technique that involved using tiny adjacent dabs of primary colour to create the …
Documentary art
Documentary art is a term associated with the artists who documented the harsh realities of British life during the Depression …
Drypoint
Drypoint is a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument
Dye destruction print
A dye destruction print (Cibachrome print, Ilfochrome print) is a print made using a photographic printing process in which colour …
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts is a French term meaning school of fine arts
Edition
An edition is a copy or replica of a work of art made from a master. It commonly refers to …
Educational turn
A theme that emerged in the mid-1990s, educational turn refers to collaborative or research-based art where the impetus is on …
Elizabethan
Elizabethan refers to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 to 1603 which saw a flowering of the arts …
Embossed
An embossed surface is a raised or depressed surface created during printmaking processes
Emulation
Emulation is the process of recreating a digital art work to ensure it continues to work as technology changes