Modern art

Modern art

A movement in fine arts (starting from the mid-1800s) in which the styles, attitudes and subject-matter began to differ from those of traditional art.

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Avant-garde

Arts & crafts; Modern art

French for “advanced guard,” this term is used in English to describe a group that is innovative, experimental, and inventive in its technique or ideology, particularly in the realms of culture, ...

Background

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer; also, the area against which a figure or scene is placed.

Batik

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A wax-resist dyeing technique that is often used to make highly patterned cloth.

A German school of art, design, and architecture, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. The school’s curriculum aimed to re-establish the bond between artistic creativity and manufacturing that had been ...

Belle Époque

Arts & crafts; Modern art

French for “beautiful era,” a term that describes the period in French history beginning in 1890 and ending at the start of World War I in1914, which was characterized by optimism, relative peace ...

Ben-Day dots

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Colored dots (generally in four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) used to create shading and secondary colors in the mechanical reproduction of images.