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Nabis

Art history; General art history

Les Nabis (from the Hebrew word for prophet) was a group of Post-Impressionist French painters active from 1888-1900. Some of its key members met at the Académie Julian in Paris, which offered a ...

The word naïve means simple, unaffected, unsophisticated. As an art term it specifically refers to artists who also have had no formal training in an art school or academy. Naïve art is characterised ...

Narrative

Art history; General art history

A narrative is simply a story. Narrative art is art that tells a story. Much of Western art has been narrative, depicting storeys from religion, myth and legend, history and literature (see History ...

Naturalism

Art history; General art history

Until the early nineteenth century both landscape and the human figure in art tended to be idealised or stylised according to conventions derived from the classical tradition. Naturalism was the ...

Nazarenes

Art history; General art history

Group of German artists founded 1809 by Overbeck and Pforr, later joined by Cornelius. Originally called Brotherhood of St Luke (patron saint of artists) but came to be known as Nazarenes (ie ...

Magic realism

Art history; General art history

Term invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 in his book Nach Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus (After Expressionism: Magic Realism ). Describes modern ...

Mail art

Art history; General art history

Considered to be the predecessor of Net art, Mail art began in the 1960s when artists sent postcards inscribed with poems or drawings through the post rather than exhibiting or selling them through ...