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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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classicism
Art history; General art history
The terms classic or classical came into use in the seventeenth century to describe the arts and culture of the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome. Classicism in art is to ...
Civil War and Commonwealth
Art history; General art history
The English Civil War broke out in 1641 bringing to an end the great artistic flowering that took place under Charles I (Stuart), exemplified in the art of his court painter Van ...
chiaroscuro
Art history; General art history
Italian term used in that form in English. It translates as light-dark, and refers to the balance and pattern of light and shade in a painting or drawing. Chiaroscuro is generally ...
charcoal
Art history; General art history
One of the most basic drawing materials, known since antiquity. It is usually made of thin peeled willow twigs which are heated without the presence of oxygen. This produces black ...
chalk
Art history; General art history
White or off-white inorganic material composed of calcium carbonate. Naturally occurring, although also produced industrially throughout the twentieth century.
Cercle et Carré
Art history; General art history
French abstract group founded in Paris in 1929 by critic and artist Michel Seuphor and artist Joaquín Torres García. They published a periodical of the same name and held a major ...
exquisite corpse
Art history; General art history
Invented in 1925 in Paris by the Surrealists Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, Cadavre exquis is similar to the old parlour game Consequences, in ...
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