General art history

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Bauhaus

Art history; General art history

Revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by the pioneer modern architect Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in 1919. Its teaching method replaced the traditional ...

Baroque

Art history; General art history

Highly emotional style in architecture, painting and sculpture, at height from c. 1630-80 in Rome but influential across Europe. Greatest exponents: sculptor and architect Bernini in Rome, and in ...

Originally a French term, meaning in English, vanguard or advance guard (the part of an army that goes forward ahead of the rest). Applied to art, means that which is in the forefront, is innovatory, ...

automatism

Art history; General art history

The central method of Surrealism. This movement was launched by the French poet André Breton, in the Manifesto of Surrealism published in Paris in 1924. He was strongly influenced by the ideas of ...

auto-destructive art

Art history; General art history

Term invented by the artist Gustav Metzger in the early 1960s and put into circulation by his article 'Machine, Auto-creative and Auto-destructive Art' in the summer 1962 issue of the journal Ark. ...

aura

Art history; General art history

The term used by Walter Benjamin in his influential 1936 essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', where it is identified as a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be ...

attribute

Art history; General art history

Has different meanings as a noun and a verb. In art an attribute (noun) is an object or animal associated with a particular personage. The most common attributes are those of the ancient Greek gods. ...