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tactical media

Art history; General art history

Refers to a re-awakening of social, political and media activism brought on by access to cheap forms of communication, in particular, the Internet (see Net art). The phrase is thought to have come ...

Acrylic paint

Art history; General art history

It is a dispersion of pigments in a synthetic resin obtained from acrylates and Methacrylates. Acrylic paint dries when the liquid vehicle evaporates and the resulting polymer chains become deformed ...

surrealism

Art history; General art history

Movement launched in Paris in 1924 by French poet André Breton with publication of his Manifesto of Surrealism. Breton was strongly influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, the founder of ...

Format

Art history; General art history

Format is traditionally used to describe the shape or proportions of the support, for example the canvas, of a painting or other essentially flat work of art such as a relief. The two commonest ...

canvas

Art history; General art history

Strong woven fabric traditionally used as material for artists. It is normally made up of strands of linen or dealgodon, but other manufactured with synthetic materials such as polyester are also ...

bricolage

Art history; General art history

Translation of the word bricolage France is do-it-yourself, and master of bricolage in artistic creativity is the ability to make art from any of the materials that come to hand this approach is ...

Kitchen sink art

Art history; General art history

Term originally used as the title of an article by the critic David Sylvester in the December 1954 issue of the journal Encounter. The article discussed the work of the realist artists known as the ...