The practise of painting the naked human form in a society where prejudice and moral rectitude was deeply entrenched against such "degenerate" behaviour

Fast drying synthetic resin, widely used as an alternative to oil paint

 Search system that gives 6 unique areas to locate a painting

Original art used to sell a product of service

Depiction of human or animal bodies in art

Unlawful removal of a work of art

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

Highly ornate and stylised European art movement

German art school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919

English group of artists noted for their unconventional lifestyles.

Firm material on which to apply paint, draw or print

Art produced to enhance or educate in printed books

Artistic works showing canals

A fabric painting surface supported by a wooden stretcher or board

How to look after your art

A preparatory drawing or humorous depiction of a person or event

Drawing medium in various shades of red, black and white

Depiction of children in paintings

Opaque paint added to watercolour

20th Century European art movement

Rippling effect on painted paper

2 dimensional picture applied to a flat surface.

How things look in response to light.

Arrangement of elements in a painting

The graded quality of the paintings condition

Current artistic movements and styles from the post war period

Drawn intersecting lines

Early 20th C. art movement

 Art movement or attitude from the early 20th C.

Substance used to create an impression on a surface.

Etching technique where the plate is incised directly, without the use of acid.

Etching technique on to a metal plate by direct means using a metal burin.

A printmaking technique

20th C. English art group

Exhibition history of a work

Early 20th C. German art movement

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

Trained artists painting in an untutored style

Paintings based around the human figure

Receding perspective in a picture

Architectural support for a painting

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

Paintings of everyday life from the human perspective

Paintings from the 18th and 19th C.

Base coat over which to apply paint.

Protection of art by glass

The classical law of painting in the ratio of one third to two thirds

An opaque painting medium sometimes called Chinese white

Grey painting medium

Base colour over which paint is applied

A varnish for watercolours

Horses and racing in art

Technique of painting in oils

The aging process of oil paintings explained

Techniques of glazing paintings

What to look for in a painting

Techniques of picture hanging

Techniques of lighting pictures to give the best effect

Technique of measuring pictures correctly

How to avoid the problem of pictures hanging on the skew

Technique of stretching a canvas over a stretcher

The reasons why watercolours fade

French art movement

A printmaking term

The practise of painting interiors with or without figures

Printing paper associated with woodblock printing

A Japanese art form of woodblock printing.

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

A picture restoration technique

A printing process on to lino

A print making technique directly onto a stone block with greasy ink or crayon

An art term indicating a certain spiritual or emotional quality.

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

Medium relates to the substance used to produce a painting

A painting substrate providing a strong flat surface

A print making technique where the artist roughs up the entire surface of the plate with a metal tool.

A painting where the artist has mixed different types of paint together to produce a slightly different effect

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

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

A painting executed in one colour or shades of a single colour

A painting technique resulting in a unique print

Part of the picture framing process for watercolours and prints

Painting directly on to a dry wall

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

Representation of the naked human form

A powdered pigment  which is held together with linseed oil

The art of bird painting

The base material for most drawings, watercolours and prints

The process of capturing an image onto light sensitve material from which a finished photograph is usually printed.

The measurement of pictures in both inches and millimetres on this site

The art of capturing an image of an individual on canvas both realistically and in an abstract form.

The history of ownership of the picture

 Non selling Art Galleries open to the public

Details of any restoration to the picture.

A specific style of picture frame

A printing technique using paint or ink and a gauze mess.

Art that depicts sport and sporting venues.

Style refers to the appearance of the picture as a whole, rather than the approach to the subject.  For example, it could be representational, abstract, impressionist or many other styles, all of which are described in more detail in this glossary.

The surface onto which a painting, print or photograph has been applied.

An elaborate and often highly ornate picture frame

A group of 4 painters from Glasgow working mainly in the first quarter of the 20th C.

 An inspirational area of the British Isles for artists, wishing to capture the grandeur and changing moods of a beautiful and rugged landscape.

The technique of applying pencil, chalks, ink, charcoal and brush to a surface. 

A clear liquid that is applied to oil and acrylic paint that when dry forms a protective hard layer.

A rarely used substrate for paint.

A transparent water based paint that is absorbed by the paper on to which it is applied.

The application of wax to stop paint or ink being absorbed by the substrate.

The positioning of a painting on a wall

The depiction of Windmills by artists.

An effect on oil paintings caused by the atmosphere over a number of years.