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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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academic art
Art history; General art history
Art made according to the teachings of an art academy. In the nineteenth century the art academies of Europe became extremely conservative, resisting change and innovation. They ...
Abstraction-Création
Art history; General art history
Association of abstract artists set up in Paris in 1931 with aim of promoting abstract art through group exhibitions. Rapidly acquired membership of around 400. Leaders were ...
abstract expressionism
Art history; General art history
Term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters in 1940s and 1950s. The Abstract Expressionists were mostly based in New York City, and also became known ...
abstract art
Art history; General art history
The word abstract strictly speaking means to separate or withdraw something from something else. In that sense applies to art in which the artist has started with some visible ...
abject art
Art history; General art history
The abject is a complex psychological, philosophical and linguistic concept developed by Julia Kristeva in her 1980 book Powers of Horror. She was partly influenced by the earlier ...
Abbaye de Creteil
Art history; General art history
In 1906 a group of French writers, artists and composers established the Abbaye de Creteil at a villa in Creteil south-east of Paris. The movement included the painters Albert ...
etching
Art history; General art history
An intaglio technique which uses chemical action to produce incised lines in a metal printing plate. The plate, traditionally copper but now usually zinc, is prepared with an ...
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