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Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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new spirit painting
Art history; General art history
This term is virtually synonymous with Neo-Expressionism and its sub groups of Neue Wilden and Transavanguardia. A New Spirit in Painting was the title of a major exhibition at ...
New York School
Art history; General art history
This term seems to have come into use in the 1940s to describe the artists of the intensely creative and innovative New York art scene that was giving birth to the radical and ...
Newlyn School
Art history; General art history
Following the extension of the Great Western Railway to West Cornwall in1877 the Cornish fishing towns of St Ives and Newlyn both began to attract artists, drawn by the beauty of ...
non-objective art
Art history; General art history
The Russian Constructivist painters Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich and the sculptor Naum Gabo were pioneers of Non-objective art. It defines a type of abstract art that is ...
Norwich School
Art history; General art history
Major regional school of landscape painting formally dating from 1803 when, at his house in Norwich, John Crome and others formed the Norwich Society, initially as a self-help ...
Nouveau Réalisme
Art history; General art history
French movement (meaning new realism) founded in 1960 by the critic Pierre Restany. It was the focus for developments which can be seen as the European counterpart to Pop art. As ...
objective abstraction
Art history; General art history
Name of a style of abstract art developed by a group of British artists in 1933. An exhibition titled Objective Abstraction was held in 1934 at the Zwemmer Gallery in London. The ...
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