General art history

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cast

Art history; General art history

A form created by pouring liquid material, such as plaster or molten metal, into a mould.

caricature

Art history; General art history

A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject. The term is ...

canvas

Art history; General art history

Strong, woven cloth traditionally used for artists' supports. Commonly made of either linen or cotton thread, but also manufactured from man-made materials such as polyester.

Camden Town Group

Art history; General art history

British Post-Impressionist group founded by Sickert in London in 1911. Other members were Bevan, Gore, Gilman, Ginner. Painted realist scenes of city life and some landscape in a range of ...

Invented in 1925 in Paris by the Surrealists Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, Cadavre exquis is similar to the old parlour game Consequences, in which players write in ...

brutalism

Art history; General art history

Term coined by the British architectural critic Reyner Banham to describe the approach to building particularly associated with the architects Peter and Alison Smithson in the 1950s and 1960s. The ...

brushwork

Art history; General art history

A word used in relation to painting to describe the characteristics of the paint surface resulting from its application with a brush. Brushwork can range from extremely smooth—as, for example, in the ...