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Kinaesthetic art
Art history; General art history
Kinaesthesia is the sense that detects bodily position, weight or movement of the muscles, tendons and joints of the body. The term has come to be used in relation to art that deals with the body in ...
Minimalism
Art history; General art history
Minimalism or Minimal art is an extreme form of abstract art that developed in the USA in the second half of the 1960s. It can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own ...
Mixed media
Art history; General art history
A term used to describe works composed of different media. The use of mixed media began around 1912 with the Cubist collages and constructions of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and has become ...
Modern moral subject
Art history; General art history
A type of painting invented by Hogarth. Typically a series of canvases vividly evoking and satirising the manners and morals of Hogarth's day. Hogarth made engraved copies of the paintings which sold ...
Modern realism
Art history; General art history
In the nineteenth century Realism had a special meaning as an art term. Since the rise of modern art, realism, or realist, or realistic, has come to be primarily a stylistic description, referring to ...
Modernism
Art history; General art history
In the field of art the broad movement in Western art, architecture and design which self-consciously rejected the past as a model for the art of the present. Hence the term modernist or modern art. ...
Monochrome
Art history; General art history
Monochrome means one colour. For centuries artists used different shades (tones) of brown or black ink to create monochrome pictures on paper. The ink would simply be more or less diluted to achieve ...
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