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 French style of abstract painting, characterised by random splotches and dabs, it gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s…
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An aesthetic movement in photography during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that focused on composition, light and subject…
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Representation of a deity or divine figure in a personified form or generally figurative mode, as opposed to aniconic representation…
A design style that emerged in the early decades of the eighteenth century in France, influencing painting, sculpture, architecture and…