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oil paint

Art history; General art history

A dispersion of pigments in a drying oil that forms a tough, coloured film on exposure to air. The drying oil is a vegetable oil, often made by crushing nuts or seeds. For paints, linseed oil is most ...

olympians

Art history; General art history

Term often used to describe certain Victorian artists, notably Alma-Tadema, Leighton, Poynter and Watts, whose work emphasised the classical in both style and subject matter. In ancient Greek ...

Omega Workshops

Art history; General art history

Founded in 1913 by the painter and art critic Roger Fry, Omega Workshops was an English applied arts company based in London, which lasted until 1919. The company produced ceramics, furniture, ...

op art

Art history; General art history

A major development in the 1960s of painting that created optical effects for the spectator. These effects ranged from the subtle, to the disturbing and disorienting. Op painting used a framework of ...

orientalist

Art history; General art history

The accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 coincided with the beginning of the great age of rail and steamship travel. Artists from Britain were soon spreading across the world in search of new and ...

orphism

Art history; General art history

Sometimes called Orphic Cubism. The term was coined about 1912-13 by the French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. He used it to describe the Cubist influenced work of Robert Delaunay and his ...

outsider art

Art history; General art history

Sometimes called Art Brut, Outsider art is used to describe art that has a naïve quality, often produced by people who have not trained as artists or commonly associated with the production of art. ...