= Art forms =
Sobek, fertility god of ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egyptian art forms are characterized by regularity and detailed depiction of human beings and nature, and were intended to provide company to the deceased in the other world.
Art forms like frescoes and murals involve leaving images and writing on wall surfaces.
Art forms promoted by the Chinese authorities before, during and after the Cultural Revolution (1966-68) also fall into this category of overtly political public art.
Art forms predating recorded history, such as Old, Middle, and New Stone Ages. Often the only record of early cultures.
Press Mold
A one-piece mold into which clay is pressed or casting slip is poured.
Art forms predating recorded history, such as Old, Middle, and New Stone Ages.
PRE-COLUMBIAN
Art created in the America's by native people that pre-dates the discovery of the new world ...
African art forms are functional and interrelated. For this reason African sculptures and textiles seen in static isolation in museum collections become visual objects with different meanings than those generated by use in communities.
classical...Art forms that are characterized by a rational, controlled, clear, and intellectual approach.
"Folklife" means the daily traditional activities, information, and art forms of a particular group of people.
China saw many art forms flourish, jade carving, bronzework, pottery (including the stunning terracotta army of Emperor Qin), poetry, calligraphy, music, painting, drama, fiction, etc.
Many art forms have developed and perished. Tragedy begins with the Greeks, is extinguished with them, and after centuries its 'rules' only are revived.
If cabaret and vaudeville inspired aspects of Dada performance, this reflects Dada's desire to embrace popular art forms and mass cultural modes of address. More recently, performance artists have borrowed from dance, and even sport.
An early twentieth century art movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms. The movement was formed to prove the bankruptcy of existing style of artistic expression rather than to promote a particular style itself.
Dubuffet's return to painting was accompanied by a passion for primitive and naive art forms, as well as for paintings made by the psychologically disturbed.
After World War I, a strain of conservatism spread through a number of art forms. A motto popular among traditionalists was "the return to order.
- An early twentieth century art movement that critically questioned even ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms.
The term Art Brut was first used by the painter Jean Dubuffet to refer to a range of art forms outside the conventional dictates of the art world.
A term used by the artist Allan Kaprow to describe the hybrid art forms of the 1960s in which visual artists extended their works into theatrical situations, often with spectator participation, and incorporated elements from painting, drawing, ...
"Outsider Art" is a term used to describe any art forms which are created outside of the mainstream of the art world of museums and galleries.
lyrical - A quality applied to various art forms (poetry, prose, visual art, dance and music), referring to a certain ethereal, musical, expressive, or poetic quality of artistic expression.
Conceptual art was intended to convey a concept to the viewer, rejecting the importance of the creator or a talent in the traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture.
Fine art refers to arts that are concerned with a limited number of visual and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture and printmaking.
The change in economic and polital structure would shift the power to the bourgeois who viewed Baroque, and especially Rococo, art as decadent aristocratic art forms.
Expressionism is also found in other art forms - the novels of Franz Kafka are often described as expressionist, for example, ...
A style derived from commercial art forms and characterized by larger than life replicas of items from mass culture.
Moreover, the same stylistic phenomena have been expressed in drawing as in other art forms. Indeed, drawing shares with other art forms the characteristics of individual style, period style, and regional features.
Because of typical flat, decorative patterns used in all art forms, Art Nouveau obtained a nickname 'the noodle style' in French, 'Le style nouilles'.
Pop Art was directly influenced by Dadaism in that it pokes fun at the traditional art world by using images from the streets and supermarkets, and suggesting that they are art forms in themselves.
POP ART - An art style derived from commercial art forms. Typically paintings and sculptures are larger than life replicas of day to day subjects.
Der Blaue Reiter was a publication of essays on the Expressionist art forms. The aim of Der Blaue Reiter exhibitions was to find the common creative ground between these diverse art forms.
A German term used to describe a “total work of art' that use of a variety of art forms.
ceramics: the process of creating functional and nonfunctional art forms out of clay.
chiaroscuro: using the contrast and transitioning of light and dark areas to create the illusion of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.
Decorative arts: collective term for such art forms as ceramics, enamels, furniture, glass, ivory, metalwork and textiles, especially when they take forms used as interior decoration.
Gothic Art : Seldom separated from the building craft of the Cathedrals, the term is used loosely to refer to religious European art forms of the 12th through 16th centuries.
Serving to adorn or embellish; ornamental. An imprecise collective term for such art forms as ceramics, enamels, furniture, glass, jewellery, metalwork, and textiles, especially when they take forms used as interior decoration.
Graphic art: two-dimensional art forms such as drawing, engraving, etching and illustration in their various forms. Return to top ...
genre, (French: "kind" or "sort") is a division of a particular form of art or utterance according to criteria particular to that form. In all art forms, genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries.
Art forms unique to Korea are especially well represented by ceramics, ranging from the stonewares of the Three Kingdoms period (57 BC-AD 668) to the inlaid celadons of the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) and the punch’ ...
Their purpose was to expand the definition of Chicano art beyond murals and posters with a wide range of art forms including conceptual art, street performances, and photo montage.
The breakthrough piece is quite clearly Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which marks a sudden change in style and shows the influence of African and primitive art forms. The nudes in the painting have mask-like faces and are made up of sharp angular forms.
Postmodernism A term used to describe the willfully plural and eclectic art forms of contemporary art.
Artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
For example, Assemblage, Installation and Performance are all three-dimensional art forms sufficiently distinct from traditional sculpture to become considered new media in themselves.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Sculpture, Expression, School
|
