General art history

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pen and ink

Art history; General art history

Historically, drawings have been made by applying ink with a quill pen made by cutting the hollow stem of a large feather, from a bird such as a goose or a swan, to create a nib. Hollow reeds were ...

pendant

Art history; General art history

A pendant picture is one of two pictures designed to hang together as a matching pair. Pendant means hanging, and the term seems to originate in the idea of one hanging from the other—i.e. Attached ...

Penwith Society of Arts

Art history; General art history

Artists society formed in 1948 at St Ives, Cornwall, Britain. It is part of the history of the development of modern and abstract art within the artists' colony of St Ives. The Penwith Society was ...

performance art

Art history; General art history

Art in which the medium is the artist's own body and the artwork takes the form of actions performed by the artist. Performance art has origins in Futurism and Dada, but became a major phenomenon in ...

perspective

Art history; General art history

A system for representing objects in three-dimensional space (i.e. For representing the visible world) on the two-dimensional surface of a picture. Basic, or linear perspective, was invented in Italy ...

photograph

Art history; General art history

A photograph is an image created by the action of light on a light-sensitive material at some stage during its making. It can be either a positive or negative image and made using one of many ...

photomontage

Art history; General art history

A collage constructed from photographs that has often been used as a means of expressing political dissent. First used by the Dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First World War, it was ...