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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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welding
Art history; General art history
The process of joining two pieces of metal by softening or melting both surfaces to be joined by the application of heat.
white cube
Art history; General art history
Refers to a certain gallery aesthetic that was introduced in the early twentieth century in response to the increasing abstraction of modern art. With an emphasis on colour and ...
wood engraving
Art history; General art history
A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being cut away to leave a line in relief. So it is an ...
woodcut
Art history; General art history
A method of relief printing from a block of wood cut along the grain. The block is carved so that an image stands out in relief. The relief image is then inked and paper placed ...
World of Art (Mir Iskutsstva)
Art history; General art history
A Russian avant-garde artistic group promoted through the journal of the same name that ran from 1898 to 1905. Serge Diaghilev was instrumental in founding the group and ...
Worpswede Group
Art history; General art history
Worpswede is a village set in beautiful countryside in Lower Saxony, Germany, near the city of Bremen. In 1889 the painters Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende moved ...
Young British Artists (YBA)
Art history; General art history
In the late 1980s British art entered what was quickly recognised as a new and excitingly distinctive phase, the era of what became known as the YBAs—the Young British Artists. ...
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