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Solarisation

Art history; General art history

Discovered accidentally by Man Ray and Lee Miller, solarisation is created by briefly exposing a partially developed photograph to light, before continuing processing. Man Ray quickly adopted ...

Sots art

Art history; General art history

A descriptive term since 1972 that takes its name from 'Sots'ialisticheskiy realism (socialist realism) and Pop 'art'. It describes a kind of art that appeared in the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s ...

Art about sound, using sound both as its medium and as its subject. It dates back to the early inventions of Futurist Luigi Russolo who, between 1913 and 1930, built noise machines that replicated ...

Print

Art history; General art history

An impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another.

Process art

Art history; General art history

Term applied to art in which the process of its making is not hidden but remains a prominent aspect of the completed work so that a part or even the whole of its subject is the making of the work. ...

Proof

Art history; General art history

A printing term applied to all individual impressions made before work on a printing plate or block is completed, in order to cheque progress of the image. Also referred to as 'trial proof' or ...

Proportion

Art history; General art history

Proportion is the relationship of one part of a whole to other parts. In art it has usually meant a preoccupation of artists with finding a mathematical formula for the perfect human body. At the ...