zeitgeist or Zeitgeist - The spirit of the times. A German word (especially when capitalized) for the taste, outlook, or general trend of thought which is characteristic of the cultural productions of a period or generation.
Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 1-58243-168-X
Cheetham, Mark A (2001). 'Kant, Art and Art History: moments of discipline'. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80018-8.
He strove for a pictorial mass medium: quick, cheap, and dedicated to the realistically oriented Zeitgeist of a bourgeois age. Niepce had actually begun quite early to employ various acids for etching transitory images onto metal and stone.
Enlightenment - Also called the Age of Reason, the name applied to an intellectual movement and zeitgeist which developed in western Europe during the seventeenth century and reached its height in the eighteenth.
From less strenuous times, their trip on the sixties' Zeitgeist seems a bit irresponsible. It will, however, seem less so in the future.
Less a style than a zeitgeist, Dadaists typically produced art objects in unconventional forms produced by unconventional methods. Several artists employed the chance results of accident as a means of production, for instance.
Inevitably this Zeitgeist influenced my own work. In the late fifties I had settled for a non-objective, evocative, but rather hermetic mode of painting. Yet most of my paintings, even the most abstract, echoed my past trauma.
the value of the work of art is determined by its capacity to transcend the limits of its chosen medium in order to strike some universal chord, by the rarity of the skill of the artist, or in its accurate reflection in what is termed the zeitgeist.
Zeitgeist - time ghost, essential spirit of a given time permeating thought, sentiment, aesthetics etc.
Zen garden - dry, shallow, sculpted landscape garden made of sand, gravel, stone, rock and occasionally grass or other natural elements ...
 See also: Movement, Painting, Sculpture, Expression, Composition
  
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