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Abstraction
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A non realistic painting that uses shapes, colours and lines to create a finished composition. |
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Advertising art
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Original art used to sell a product of service |
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Anatomical painting
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Depiction of human or animal bodies in art |
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Avant-garde
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Experimental or cutting edge art, the forerunner of a new artist movement |
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Baroque
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Highly ornate and stylised European art movement |
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Bauhaus
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German art school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919
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Bloomsbury
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English group of artists noted for their unconventional lifestyles. |
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Book illustration
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Art produced to enhance or educate in printed books |
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Cartoons
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A preparatory drawing or humorous depiction of a person or event |
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Cobra
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20th Century European art movement |
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Collage
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2 dimensional picture applied to a flat surface. |
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Contemporary art
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Current artistic movements and styles from the post war period |
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Cubism
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Early 20th C. art movement |
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Dada
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Art movement or attitude from the early 20th C. |
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Euston Road
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20th C. English art group |
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Expressionism
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Early 20th C. German art movement |
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Fauvism
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Early 20th C. art movement centred around a group of French painters.
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Faux naive
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Trained artists painting in an untutored style |
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Figurative
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Paintings based around the human figure |
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Futurism
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Italian 20th C. art movement that vehemently denounced all previous art |
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Genre Painting
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Paintings of everyday life from the human perspective |
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Georgian Art
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Paintings from the 18th and 19th C. |
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Impressionism
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French art movement |
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Intaglio
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A printmaking term |
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Interiors
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The practise of painting interiors with or without figures |
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Japanese Prints
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A Japanese art form of woodblock printing. |
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Kitchen Sink
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Post war British art movement, the term deriving from an expressionist painting by John Bratby |
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Landscape painting
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Painting the countryside |
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Lyrical
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An art term indicating a certain spiritual or emotional quality. |
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Mannerist paintings
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A 16th C. art style that was a reaction to the harmony and proportion of the High Renaissance |
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Modern Art
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Art form from the 19th/20th Century characterized by formal experimentation and exploration of subjects and mediums. |
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Modern British
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20th Century art movement and style from the first half of the 20th century. |
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Mural painting
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Painting directly on to a dry wall |
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Naive Painting and Alfred Wallis
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A painting style exemplified by Alfred Wallis, an old Cornish fisherman |
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Ornithological Paintings
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The art of bird painting |
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Plein air
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The act of painting in the outdoors rather than in the studio. |
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Pointillism
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A method of painting developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the 1880s using dabs of pure colour. |
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Pop art
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Movement started in the 1950s that used images of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. |
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Portraiture
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The art of capturing an image of an individual on canvas both realistically and in an abstract form.
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Post impressionism
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Works produced by a group of late nineteenth-century painters, including Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. |
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Post Modernism
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The period of art which followed the modern period from the 1950's until recently. |
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Representational
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Art that is immediately recognizable for what it is |
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Seascapes
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The painting of sea pictures with or without boats. |
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Self portraits
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The art of painting oneself |
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The Colourists
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A group of 4 painters from Glasgow working mainly in the first quarter of the 20th C. |
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The technique of drawing
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The technique of applying pencil, chalks, ink, charcoal and brush to a surface. |
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