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Abstraction
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A non realistic painting that uses shapes, colours and lines to create a finished composition.
Advertising art
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Original art used to sell a product of service

Anatomical painting
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Depiction of human or animal bodies in art

Avant-garde
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Experimental or cutting edge art, the forerunner of a new artist movement

Baroque
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Highly ornate and stylised European art movement

Bauhaus
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German art school founded by Walter Groupius in 1919

Bloomsbury
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English group of artists noted for their unconventional lifestyles.

Book illustration
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Art produced to enhance or educate in printed books

Cartoons
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A preparatory drawing or humorous depiction of a person or event

Cobra
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20th Century European art movement

Collage
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2 dimensional picture applied to a flat surface.

Contemporary art
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Current artistic movements and styles from the post war period

Cubism
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Early 20th C. art movement

Dada
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 Art movement or attitude from the early 20th C.

Euston Road
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20th C. English art group

Expressionism
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Early 20th C. German art movement

Fauvism
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Early 20th C. art movement centered around a group of French painters.

Faux naive
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Trained artists painting in an untutored style

Figurative
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Paintings based around the human figure

Futurism
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Italian 20th C. art movement that vehemently  denounced all previous art

Genre Painting
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Paintings of everyday life from the human perspective

Georgian Art
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Paintings from the 18th and 19th C.

Impressionism
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French art movement

Intaglio
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A printmaking term

Interiors
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The practise of painting interiors with or without figures

Japanese Prints
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A Japanese art form of woodblock printing.

Kitchen Sink
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Post war British art movement, the term deriving from an expressionist painting by John Bratby

Landscape painting
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 Painting the countryside
Lyrical
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An art term indicating a certain spiritual or emotional quality.

Mannerist paintings
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A 16th C. art style that was a reaction to the harmony and proportion of the High Renaissance

Modern Art
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Art form from the 19th/20th Century characterized by formal experimentation and exploration of subjects and mediums.

Modern British
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20th Century art movement and style from the first half of the 20th century.

Mural painting
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Painting directly on to a dry wall

Naive Painting and Alfred Wallis
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A painting style exemplified by Alfred Wallis, an old Cornish fisherman

Ornithological Paintings
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The art of bird painting

Plein air
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The act of painting in the outdoors rather than in the studio.
Pointillism
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 A method of painting developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the 1880s  using dabs of pure colour.
Pop art
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 Movement started in the 1950s that used images of mass media, advertising, and popular culture.
Portraiture
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The art of capturing an image of an individual on canvas both realistically and in an abstract form.

 

Post impressionism
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Works produced by a group of late nineteenth-century painters, including Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.
Post Modernism
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 The period of art which followed the modern period from the 1950's until recently.
Representational
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Art that is immediately recognizable for what it is 
Seascapes
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The painting of sea pictures with or without boats.
Self portraits
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The art of painting oneself
The Colourists
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A group of 4 painters from Glasgow working mainly in the first quarter of the 20th C.

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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