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figurative

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Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure. In a ...

French phrase meaning end of century. As historical term applies specifically to end of nineteenth century and even more specifically to decade of 1890s. Umbrella term embracing Symbolism, Decadence ...

Flâneur

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The nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire identified the flâneur (stroller) in his essay 'The Painter of Modern Life' (1863) as the dilettante observer of modern urban life, a character ...

Fluxus

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An international avant-garde group or collective founded and given its name in 1960 by the Lithuanian/American artist George Maciunas; originally for an eponymous magazine featuring the work of a ...

foreshortening

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Term used to describe the treatment of an object or human body in a picture seen in perspective from close to the viewpoint and at right angles to the picture surface. For example a body viewed from ...

form

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In relation to art the term form has two meanings. First it refers to the overall form taken by the work—its physical nature. Secondly, within a work of art form refers to the element of shape among ...

formalism

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In general, the term formalism describes the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form, that is, the way it is made and its purely visual aspects, rather than its ...