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modern moral subject

Art history; General art history

A type of painting invented by Hogarth. Typically a series of canvases vividly evoking and satirising the manners and morals of Hogarth's day. Hogarth made engraved copies of the paintings which sold ...

modern realism

Art history; General art history

In the nineteenth century Realism had a special meaning as an art term. Since the rise of modern art, realism, or realist, or realistic, has come to be primarily a stylistic description, referring to ...

modernism

Art history; General art history

In the field of art the broad movement in Western art, architecture and design which self-consciously rejected the past as a model for the art of the present. Hence the term modernist or modern art. ...

monochrome

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Monochrome means one colour. For centuries artists used different shades (tones) of brown or black ink to create monochrome pictures on paper. The ink would simply be more or less diluted to achieve ...

monoprint

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Essentially a unique variant of a conventional print. An impression is printed from a reprintable block, such as an etched plate or woodblock, but in such a way that only one of its kind exists, for ...

monotype

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A unique image printed from a polished plate, such as glass, metal, painted with ink but not a permanent printing matrix. A monotype impression is generally unique, though a second, lighter ...

montage

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An assembly of images that relate to each other in some way to create a single work or part of a work of art. A montage is more formal than a collage and is usually based on a theme. It is also used ...