A style of abstraction where paintings are produced through vigorous and spontaneous application of paint over the canvas, in sweeping brushtrokes, spills, drippage and splashing. Closely associated with Abstract Expressionism, action painting characterised the work of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Arshile Gorky.
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A precursor of performance art, they are events or situations where the artwork is created by the conditions produced by…
A term often used synonymously with minimalism, it refers to a style of art and literature characterised by the portrayal…
An early twentieth century artistic and architectural movement that was started in Russia by painter and architect Vladimir Tatlin and…
An aesthetic movement in photography during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that focused on composition, light and subject…
A genre of paintings associated with the Patna School, which depicted people engaged in caste-based occupations. Frequently produced and sold…
An aesthetic category accorded to pictures that have an agreeable and appealing visual quality, and is particularly used for idealised…
An art movement that emerged in early twentieth-century Germany, characterised by irregular brushstrokes and gestural marks which eschewed realist depictions…
Originating in western Greece, it is oldest of the three orders of the classical architecture of ancient Greece, along with…