A genre of paintings associated with the Patna School, which depicted people engaged in caste-based occupations. Frequently produced and sold as grouped sets, they were extremely popular among European tourists and the local British population.
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A tendency in European and American modern art where artists explored the visual vocabulary of the cultures of Africa, Oceania…
A modern art movement developed in the twentieth century by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque which rejected…
A design style that emerged in the early decades of the eighteenth century in France, influencing painting, sculpture, architecture and…
A cultural and philosophical movement that originated in western Europe and sought new paradigms in art and socio-cultural discourse to…
An aesthetic category accorded to pictures that have an agreeable and appealing visual quality, and is particularly used for idealised…
Romantic, expressive and abstract paintings made using loose and gestural brushstrokes. The style developed in France and the United States…
Art that is made by shaping or making forms on land or by using natural materials such as grass, rocks…
A French style of abstract painting, characterised by random splotches and dabs, it gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s…