General art history

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curator

Art history; General art history

Museums and galleries typically employ numbers of curators who are concerned with staging temporary loan exhibitions, arranging displays of the museum's own collection and making acquisitions for ...

crypt group

Art history; General art history

Refers to an episode in the history of the artists' colony in Britain at St Ives, Cornwall. From its foundation in 1927 the St Ives Society of Artists was the dominating exhibition society of St ...

Until modern times royal courts were a major focus of artistic patronage. Monarchs employed their own artists giving them titles such as King's Painter, but they are generally referred to as court ...

pyramid

Art history; General art history

Construction with a square base and four triangular faces; it served as a tomb for the pharaohs of ancient Egypt

abstract art

Art history; General art history

Art that does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake.

abstract expressionism

Art history; General art history

The dominant movement in American painting in the late 1940s and 1950s, characterized by a desire to convey powerful emotions through the sensuos qualities of paint, often on canvases of huge size.