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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Period of development in European arts, science and philosophy between the late fourteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Renaissance (French,…
An abstract painting style categorised within American Expressionism, it is characterised by large-scale canvases painted expansively with flat, solid colour…
A religious revival movement between c. tenth and eleventh centuries CE, credited with establishing Buddhism as a majority religion in…
Coined by French art critic and curator Michel Tapie in 1952, the term signifies French artistic and painting styles of…
An art movement that originated in the 1950s and 1960s in Britain and the United States of America, it challenged…
An early twentieth century artistic and architectural movement that was started in Russia by painter and architect Vladimir Tatlin and…
Originating in western Greece, it is oldest of the three orders of the classical architecture of ancient Greece, along with…
Style of architectural design characterised by lightweight, rectilinear structures using industrial materials such as steel, concrete and glass, often featuring…