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Caricature

Art history; General art history

A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject. The term is ...

Camden Town Group

Art history; General art history

British Post-Impressionist group founded by Sickert in London in 1911. Other members were Bevan, Gore, Gilman, Ginner. Painted realist scenes of city life and some landscape in a range of ...

A term used to describe the visual representation of information, often statistical. In the past this was usually in map or graph form, but computers make it possible to represent data in animated ...

Curator

Art history; General art history

Museums and galleries typically employ numbers of curators who are concerned with staging temporary loan exhibitions, arranging displays of the museum's own collection and making acquisitions for ...

Crypt group

Art history; General art history

Refers to an episode in the history of the artists' colony in Britain at St Ives, Cornwall. From its foundation in 1927 the St Ives Society of Artists was the dominating exhibition society of St ...

Court

Art history; General art history

Until modern times royal courts were a major focus of artistic patronage. Monarchs employed their own artists giving them titles such as King's Painter, but they are generally referred to as court ...

Conceptual art

Art history; General art history

This term came into use in the late 1960s to describe a wide range of types of art that no longer took the form of a conventional art object. In 1973 a pioneering record of the early years of the ...