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Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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sots art

Art history; General art history

A descriptive term since 1972 that takes its name from 'Sots'ialisticheskiy realism (socialist realism) and Pop 'art'. It describes a kind of art that appeared in the USSR in the ...

sound art

Art history; General art history

Art about sound, using sound both as its medium and as its subject. It dates back to the early inventions of Futurist Luigi Russolo who, between 1913 and 1930, built noise ...

Spazialismo

Art history; General art history

Italian movement (Movimento Spaziale—spacialist movement, or spacialism) started by the Argentine-born Italian artist Lucio Fontana after his return to Italy from Argentina in ...

St Ives School

Art history; General art history

Term referring to the artists associated with the fishing town of St Ives in West Cornwall, Britain. The town became a particular magnet for artists following the extension to ...

St. John’s Wood Clique

Art history; General art history

In the second half of the nineteenth century the St John's Wood area of London became a popular location for artists, giving rise to the St John's Wood Clique, a loose association ...

still life

Art history; General art history

One of the principal genres (subject types) of Western art. Essentially, the subject matter of a still life painting or sculpture is anything that does not move or is dead. So ...

street art

Art history; General art history

Street art is genre related to graffiti writing, but separate and with different rules and traditions. Where modern-day graffiti revolves around 'tagging' and text-based subject ...