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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Stencil

Arts & crafts; Modern art

An impervious material perforated with letters, shapes, or patterns through which a substance passes through to a surface.

Street photography

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A type of photography that captures subjects in candid moments in public places.

Zoopraxiscope

Arts & crafts; Modern art

19th-century motion-picture device, designed by Edweard Muybridge, in which light is projected through rotating glass disks applied at the rim with a changing sequence of images, creating the ...

19th century motion-picture device, invented by William George Homer, in which a strip of paper with a changing sequence of images is placed in the bottom of a circular drum. The drum has slots cut ...

Ziggurat

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A terraced pyramid form comprising successively receding stories.

Woodcut

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A term loosely applied to any printmaking technique involving a relief image cut into the surface of a wooden block. The wood is covered with ink and applied to a sheet of paper; only the uncut areas ...

Wiener Werkstätte

Arts & crafts; Modern art

An association of Vienna-based visual artists, craftspeople, and designers established in 1903 around the idea that fashionable art, design, furniture, and household goods should be accessible to ...