General art history

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systems art

Art history; General art history

Loosely describes a group of artists who radically re-thought the object of art in the late 1960s early 1970s. They sought to connect with the political developments of the decade and make their art ...

tachisme

Art history; General art history

French term for the improvisatory non-geometric abstract art that developed in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s and was the European equivalent to Abstract Expressionism in America. Tachisme is ...

tactical media

Art history; General art history

Refers to a re-awakening of social, political and media activism brought on by access to cheap forms of communication, in particular, the Internet (see Net art). The phrase is thought to have come ...

telematic art

Art history; General art history

Alain Minc and Simon Nora first used the term Telematic in the late 1970s to describe the way computers transmit information. In the early 1990s, the British artist and theorist Roy Ascott coined the ...

tempera

Art history; General art history

The technique of painting with pigments bound in a water-soluble emulsion, such as water and egg yolk, or an oil-in-water emulsion such as oil and a whole egg. Some tempera paints are made with an ...

The Ancients

Art history; General art history

The Ancients was the name given to themselves by the group of disciples of William Blake that formed around him in London in the last years before his death in 1827. The implication of the name was ...

The Clique

Art history; General art history

Sketching club formed by Dadd, Egg, Elmore, Frith, Henry O'Neill, and John Phillip about 1837 when all were students at the Royal Academy Schools in London. It was an informal society of friends ...