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Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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neo-geo

Art history; General art history

Short for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism. This term came into use in the early 1980s in America to describe the work of Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons and others. Halley ...

neo-impressionism

Art history; General art history

Neo-Impressionism is the specific name given to the Post-Impressionist work of Seurat and Signac and their followers. Both Camille and Lucien Pissarro had a Neo-Impressionist ...

neo-plasticism

Art history; General art history

Term adopted by the Dutch pioneer of abstract art, Mondrian, for his own type of abstract painting. From Dutch de nieuwe beelding. Basically means new art (painting and sculpture ...

neo-romanticism

Art history; General art history

Term applied to the imaginative and often quite abstract landscape based painting of Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and others in the late 1930s and 1940s. Their work often included ...

net art

Art history; General art history

Art made on and for the internet is called Net art. This is a term used to describe a process of making art using a computer in some form or other, whether to download imagery ...

Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKV)

Art history; General art history

The 'New Artists' Association of Munich' was founded as an avant-garde exhibiting society in Munich in 1909. With Wassily Kandinsky as president and members including Alexei ...

Neue Sachlichkeit

Art history; General art history

Usually translated as New Objectivity. German modern realist movement of the 1920s, taking its name from the exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit held in Mannheim in 1923. Part of the ...