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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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Bauhaus
Art history; General art history
Revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by the pioneer modern architect Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in 1919. Its teaching method replaced the ...
Baroque
Art history; General art history
Highly emotional style in architecture, painting and sculpture, at height from c. 1630-80 in Rome but influential across Europe. Greatest exponents: sculptor and architect Bernini ...
avant-garde
Art history; General art history
Originally a French term, meaning in English, vanguard or advance guard (the part of an army that goes forward ahead of the rest). Applied to art, means that which is in the ...
automatism
Art history; General art history
The central method of Surrealism. This movement was launched by the French poet André Breton, in the Manifesto of Surrealism published in Paris in 1924. He was strongly influenced ...
auto-destructive art
Art history; General art history
Term invented by the artist Gustav Metzger in the early 1960s and put into circulation by his article 'Machine, Auto-creative and Auto-destructive Art' in the summer 1962 issue of ...
aura
Art history; General art history
The term used by Walter Benjamin in his influential 1936 essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', where it is identified as a quality integral to an artwork ...
attribute
Art history; General art history
Has different meanings as a noun and a verb. In art an attribute (noun) is an object or animal associated with a particular personage. The most common attributes are those of the ...
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