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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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simultanism
Art history; General art history
The term invented by Robert Delaunay to describe the abstract painting developed by him and his wife Sonia Delaunay from about 1910. Their work was also named Orphism by the poet ...
site-specific
Art history; General art history
Refers to a work of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location. If removed from the location it would lose all or a ...
Situationist International
Art history; General art history
Revolutionary alliance of European avant-garde artists, writers and poets formed at a conference in Italy in 1957 (as Internationale Situationiste or IS). It combined two existing ...
social realism
Art history; General art history
Refers to any Realist painting that also carries a clearly discernible social or political comment. In Britain can be found in eighteenth century in e.g. Hogarth, but became ...
socialist realism
Art history; General art history
A form of modern realism imposed in Russia by Stalin following his rise to power after the death of Lenin in 1924. The doctrine was formally proclaimed by Maxim Gorky at the ...
software art
Art history; General art history
In the 1960s, software programs were the digital tool with which artists could create art on computers. Since then, these programs have become so sophisticated that they can now ...
solarisation
Art history; General art history
Discovered accidentally by Man Ray and Lee Miller, solarisation is created by briefly exposing a partially developed photograph to light, before continuing processing. Man Ray ...
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