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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Period of development in European arts, science and philosophy between the late fourteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Renaissance (French,…
The style of cave temple architecture developed under the patronage of the Pallava king Mahendravarman I, characterised by simplicity of…
A design style that emerged in the early decades of the eighteenth century in France, influencing painting, sculpture, architecture and…
Sculptural art characterised by the merging of Indian and Hellenistic traditions, it overlaps with the reign of the Indo-Greeks in…
A form of abstract art that uses geometric forms, usually in a non-illusionistic space, to create non-representational or non-objective compositions.…
An early twentieth century artistic and architectural movement that was started in Russia by painter and architect Vladimir Tatlin and…
Artistic mode which depicts visual forms derived from real-world objects — often, though not always, rendered through observation. Also called…
A tendency in European and American modern art where artists explored the visual vocabulary of the cultures of Africa, Oceania…