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Documentary art

Art history; General art history

This term is associated with the artists who documented the harsh realities of British life during the Depression in the 1930s. In a decade dominated by mass unemployment and social deprivation, a ...

Documenta

Art history; General art history

An exhibition of international contemporary art held in Kassel in Germany, originally every four years, and from 1972 every five years. It is perceived as one of the world's most important art ...

Direct carving

Art history; General art history

A new approach to making carved sculpture introduced by Brancusi from about 1906. Before that carved sculpture had always been based on a carefully worked out preliminary model. Often it was then ...

Digital art

Art history; General art history

The first use of the term Digital art was in the early 1980s when computer engineers devised a paint programme which was used by the pioneering digital artist Harold Cohen. This became known as ...

Collage

Art history; General art history

Collage is a term used to describe both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down to a supporting ...

Cobra

Art history; General art history

Group formed in 1948 by artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam and taking its name from the first letters of those cities. However, they welcomed the coincidental reference to the snake, ...

Classicism

Art history; General art history

The terms classic or classical came into use in the seventeenth century to describe the arts and culture of the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome. Classicism in art is to make reference in ...