Intermedia

Styles & Movements Modern & Contemporary Art

Similar to multimedia art, this is a term used to describe interdisciplinary works of art that collapsed existing genres of visual arts such as painting, sculpture and graphics as well as other cultural practices such as poetry and performance. It was widely employed by Fluxus artists in the 1960s.

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Art Brut

An art movement that emerged after World War II in reaction to academic aesthetics and in favour of obscene and…

Cubism

A modern art movement developed in the twentieth century by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque which rejected…

International Style

Style of architectural design characterised by lightweight, rectilinear structures using industrial materials such as steel, concrete and glass, often featuring…

Indian Modernist architecture

The adaptation of Western Modernist principles — functionalism, minimal ornamentation, and the use of industrial materials like reinforced concrete —…

Expressionism

A modernist art movement that emerged in Europe in the early twentieth century, particularly Germany, in response to the dominant…

iconic representation

Representation of a deity or divine figure in a personified form or generally figurative mode, as opposed to aniconic representation…

Constructivism

An early twentieth century artistic and architectural movement that was started in Russia by painter and architect Vladimir Tatlin and…

Pictorialism

An aesthetic movement in photography during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that focused on composition, light and subject…