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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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hyper-realism
Art history; General art history
Term that appeared in the early 1970s to describe a resurgence of particularly high fidelity realism in sculpture and painting at that time. Also called Super-Realism, and in ...
iconography
Art history; General art history
The iconography of a painting is the imagery in it. The term comes from the Greek word ikon meaning image. An icon was originally a picture of Christ on a panel used as an object ...
Il Novecento Italiano
Art history; General art history
Italian group formed in 1922 by Funi, Sironi, Carra and others. Officially launched in 1923 at a meeting in Milan, with Mussolini as one of the speakers. Mussolini was the founder ...
illusionism
Art history; General art history
In Baroque art refers particularly to decorative schemes in buildings, especially ceiling paintings, in which the artist uses perspective and foreshortening to create, for ...
impasto
Art history; General art history
An area of thick paint, or texture, in a painting. First noticeable in Venetian Renaissance painters Titian and Tintoretto, then in Baroque painting, for example Rubens. ...
impressionism
Art history; General art history
New way of painting landscape and scenes of everyday life developed in France by Monet and others from early 1860s. Based on practice of painting finished pictures out of doors, ...
Independent Group
Art history; General art history
A radical group of young artists within the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. The Independent Group, or IG, was first convened in the winter of 1952-3 and then again ...
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