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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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pen and ink
Art history; General art history
Historically, drawings have been made by applying ink with a quill pen made by cutting the hollow stem of a large feather, from a bird such as a goose or a swan, to create a nib. ...
pendant
Art history; General art history
A pendant picture is one of two pictures designed to hang together as a matching pair. Pendant means hanging, and the term seems to originate in the idea of one hanging from the ...
Penwith Society of Arts
Art history; General art history
Artists society formed in 1948 at St Ives, Cornwall, Britain. It is part of the history of the development of modern and abstract art within the artists' colony of St Ives. The ...
performance art
Art history; General art history
Art in which the medium is the artist's own body and the artwork takes the form of actions performed by the artist. Performance art has origins in Futurism and Dada, but became a ...
perspective
Art history; General art history
A system for representing objects in three-dimensional space (i.e. For representing the visible world) on the two-dimensional surface of a picture. Basic, or linear perspective, ...
photograph
Art history; General art history
A photograph is an image created by the action of light on a light-sensitive material at some stage during its making. It can be either a positive or negative image and made using ...
photomontage
Art history; General art history
A collage constructed from photographs that has often been used as a means of expressing political dissent. First used by the Dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First ...
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