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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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video art
Art history; General art history
The introduction of video in the 1960s radically altered the progress of art. The most important aspect of video was that it was cheap and easy to make, enabling artists to record ...
virtual reality
Art history; General art history
The computer scientist Jaron Lanier popularised the term virtual reality in the early 1980s to describe a technology that enables a person to interact with a computer-simulated ...
vitrine
Art history; General art history
A large, glazed cabinet used for displaying art objects. Often used in museums, the vitrine was appropriated by artists like Joseph Cornell in the 1950s and Joseph Beuys in the ...
vorticism
Art history; General art history
The Vorticists were a British avant-garde group formed in London in 1914 by the artist, writer and polemicist, Wyndham Lewis. Their only group exhibition was held in London the ...
war artists
Art history; General art history
In Britain official schemes were established for artists to record both the First and Second World Wars. During the First World War, two main streams of activity produced official ...
watercolour
Art history; General art history
Watercolour is a medium or work of art made with paint consisting of fine pigment particles suspended in an aqueous binder which usually consists of gum, glucose, glycerine and ...
watermark
Art history; General art history
An image or mark in a sheet of paper visible when viewed by transmitted light. It is created using a pattern of wire sewn into the mould on which the sheet of pulp is dried; the ...
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