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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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Art history; General art history
A form created by pouring liquid material, such as plaster or molten metal, into a mould.
caricature
Art history; General art history
A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the ...
canvas
Art history; General art history
Strong, woven cloth traditionally used for artists' supports. Commonly made of either linen or cotton thread, but also manufactured from man-made materials such as polyester.
Camden Town Group
Art history; General art history
British Post-Impressionist group founded by Sickert in London in 1911. Other members were Bevan, Gore, Gilman, Ginner. Painted realist scenes of city life and some landscape in a ...
Cadavre exquis
Art history; General art history
Invented in 1925 in Paris by the Surrealists Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, Cadavre exquis is similar to the old parlour game Consequences, in ...
brutalism
Art history; General art history
Term coined by the British architectural critic Reyner Banham to describe the approach to building particularly associated with the architects Peter and Alison Smithson in the ...
brushwork
Art history; General art history
A word used in relation to painting to describe the characteristics of the paint surface resulting from its application with a brush. Brushwork can range from extremely smooth—as, ...
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