Home > Industry/Domain > Art history
Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
3Categories 24614Terms
Add a new termContributors in Art history
Art history > General art history 
photorealism
Art history; General art history
A style of painting that emerged in Europe and the USA in the late 1960s, Photorealism was characterised by its painstaking detail and precision. It rejected the painterly ...
picture plane
Art history; General art history
In traditional illusionistic painting using perspective, the picture plane can be thought of as the glass of the notional window through which the viewer looks into the ...
environmental art
Art history; General art history
From about the late 1960s the term Environmental Art became applied specifically to art—often but not necessarily in the form of Installation—that addressed social and political ...
circle and square
Art history; General art history
French abstract group founded in Paris in 1929 by critic and artist Michel Seuphor and artist Joaquín Torres García. They published a periodical of the same name and held a major ...
entropy
Art history; General art history
Entropy is the inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. The concept is articulated by the Second Law of Thermodynamics (the tendency for all matter and energy ...
engraving
Art history; General art history
An intaglio technique in which a metal plate is manually incised with a burin, an engraving tool like a very fine chisel with a lozenge-shaped tip. The burin makes incisions into ...
emulation
Art history; General art history
The process of recreating a digital art work to keep it alive. As technology becomes more sophisticated, the early video cameras, software programs and computers of the 1970s and ...
Sub-categories
- General art history (13487)
- Renaissance (24)
- Visual arts (11058)