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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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format
Art history; General art history
Format is traditionally used to describe the shape or proportions of the support, for example the canvas, of a painting or other essentially flat work of art such as a relief. The ...
found object
Art history; General art history
A natural or man-made object (or fragment of an object) found (or sometimes bought) by an artist and kept because of some intrinsic interest the artist sees in it. Found objects ...
fresco
Art history; General art history
A mural painting technique developed in Italy from about the thirteenth century and perfected at the time of the Renaissance. Two coats of plaster are applied to a wall and ...
frottage
Art history; General art history
Surrealist automatist technique developed by Max Ernst in drawings made from 1925. Frottage is the French word for rubbing. Ernst was inspired by an ancient wooden floor where the ...
futurism
Art history; General art history
Art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le ...
generative art
Art history; General art history
Art made by a predetermined system that often included an element of chance. The practice has its roots in Dada, yet it was the pioneering artist Harold Cohen who was considered ...
genre painting
Art history; General art history
Paintings of subjects from everyday life, usually small in scale. Developed particularly in Holland in seventeenth century, most typically with scenes of peasant life or drinking ...
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