An approach to art which emphasises aspects of form, such as line, shape and colour. Formalism engages with the visual qualities of a work of art as opposed to its narrative or symbolic contents.
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Meaning “in open air” in French, it is the style of creating a finished landscape painting outdoors. Before the practice…
Architectural style that adapts Modernist architectural principles and materials for thermal comfort in the hot and humid climate of the…
A style of abstraction where paintings are produced through vigorous and spontaneous application of paint over the canvas, in sweeping…
Originating in western Greece, it is oldest of the three orders of the classical architecture of ancient Greece, along with…
An art movement that developed in New York in the 1940s and led to the formation of the New York…
Representation of a deity or divine figure in a personified form or generally figurative mode, as opposed to aniconic representation…
A cultural movement in art, architecture and applied and decorative arts that sought to modernise design and free it from…
One of the three canonical orders of Western Classical architecture, it originated in the mid-sixth century in Ionia (present-day Turkey).…