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Degenerate art

Art history; General art history

Degenerate art is the English translation of the German phrase Entartete Kunst. In 1933 the National Socialist (Nazi) party under its leader Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany and began to bring ...

Deconstruction

Art history; General art history

A form of criticism, which involves discovering, recognising and understanding the underlying—and unspoken and implicit—assumptions, ideas and frameworks of cultural forms such as works of art. First ...

Décollage

Art history; General art history

French word meaning literally to unstick. The term is generally associated with the Nouveau Réalisme (new realism) movement, although the first time it appeared in print was in the Dictionnaire ...

Decadence

Art history; General art history

Phase or branch of Symbolism in 1880s and 1890s and many artists and writers seen as both. Term came into use 1880s e.g. French journal Le Décadent 1886. Generally refers to extreme manifestations of ...

De Stijl

Art history; General art history

Name of journal founded in 1917 in Holland by pioneers of abstract art, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. Means style in Dutch. The name De Stijl also came to refer to the circle of artists that ...

Drypoint

Art history; General art history

An intaglio process in which incised lines are drawn on a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument (not the engraving burin). Drypoint is usually done on copper plates as the softer metal ...

Drawing

Art history; General art history

Essentially, drawing is a technique in which images are depicted on a flat surface by making lines, though drawings can also contain tonal areas, washes and other non-linear marks. Ink, pencil, ...