Modern art

Modern art

A movement in fine arts (starting from the mid-1800s) in which the styles, attitudes and subject-matter began to differ from those of traditional art.

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Omnigraph

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The object responsible for the transformation of ideas into tangible reality. Originating from the latin term "omni" (meaning 'everything') and the latin root "graph" (meaning 'to write'), we may ...

A 2012 summer art exhibit at the central gallery of the National Art Museum of Ukraine that featured men kissing sleeping women to try to awaken them. Each qualified male suitor could kiss a sleeping ...

Pixel art

Arts & crafts; Modern art

It is a kind of art which comes from numeric composition, using few colours and squares.

Arts and crafts movement

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A social and aesthetic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that championed good designed and craftsmanship at a time of increasing mechanisation and mass production.

Assemblage

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Term coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to describe a type of work made from fragments of natural or preformed materials, such as household debris.

Action painting

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A type of dynamic, impulsive painting in which the artist applies paint with energic gestural movements and with no preconceived idea of what the picture will look like.

Automatism

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Method of producing paintings or drawings in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the movements of the hand, allowing the unconscious mind to take over.