General art history

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academic art

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Art made according to the teachings of an art academy. In the nineteenth century the art academies of Europe became extremely conservative, resisting change and innovation. They came to be opposed to ...

Abstraction-Création

Art history; General art history

Association of abstract artists set up in Paris in 1931 with aim of promoting abstract art through group exhibitions. Rapidly acquired membership of around 400. Leaders were Herbin and Vantongerloo, ...

abstract expressionism

Art history; General art history

Term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters in 1940s and 1950s. The Abstract Expressionists were mostly based in New York City, and also became known as the New York ...

abstract art

Art history; General art history

The word abstract strictly speaking means to separate or withdraw something from something else. In that sense applies to art in which the artist has started with some visible object and abstracted ...

abject art

Art history; General art history

The abject is a complex psychological, philosophical and linguistic concept developed by Julia Kristeva in her 1980 book Powers of Horror. She was partly influenced by the earlier ideas of the French ...

Abbaye de Creteil

Art history; General art history

In 1906 a group of French writers, artists and composers established the Abbaye de Creteil at a villa in Creteil south-east of Paris. The movement included the painters Albert Gleizes, Charles ...

etching

Art history; General art history

An intaglio technique which uses chemical action to produce incised lines in a metal printing plate. The plate, traditionally copper but now usually zinc, is prepared with an acid-resistant ground. ...