A term often used synonymously with minimalism, it refers to a style of art and literature characterised by the portrayal of subjects in a direct and exact manner without using devices that suggest an additional or hidden meaning, such as metaphor, symbolism, idealism and stylisation.
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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 term for an architectural style primarily associated with medieval-era temples in the Deccan region, especially north Karnataka. Derived from…
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The style of cave temple architecture developed under the patronage of the Pallava king Mahendravarman I, characterised by simplicity of…
An avant-garde artistic movement that emphasised speed, technology, violence and youth. It originated in Italy in the early twentieth century,…
One of the three canonical orders of Western Classical architecture, it originated in the mid-sixth century in Ionia (present-day Turkey).…
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A modern art movement developed in the twentieth century by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque which rejected…