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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Romantic, expressive and abstract paintings made using loose and gestural brushstrokes. The style developed in France and the United States…
One of the three canonical orders of Western Classical architecture, it originated in the mid-sixth century in Ionia (present-day Turkey).…
An art movement that emerged in twentieth-century France and aimed to express the creativity of the unconscious mind through the…
A modernist art movement that emerged in Europe in the early twentieth century, particularly Germany, in response to the dominant…
Similar to multimedia art, this is a term used to describe interdisciplinary works of art that collapsed existing genres of…
The adaptation of Western Modernist principles — functionalism, minimal ornamentation, and the use of industrial materials like reinforced concrete —…
A style of painting that was influenced by European academies of art from the sixteenth century onwards. It was characterised…
A cultural and philosophical movement that originated in western Europe and sought new paradigms in art and socio-cultural discourse to…