all'antica

From Italian all'antica (“in the style of antiquity”).

In adapting Joshua Reynolds's concept of the ‘historicizing portrait’, taking up Van Dyck or Oriental fashions and elevating all'antica garb to fashion, her portraits were considered particularly ‘fashionable’.

2020, Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelica Kauffman, Munich: Hirmer, page 12:

(art, architecture) In a classical style; based on classical models.


bacteriography

From bacterio- + -graphy. From forming pictures out of bacteria. Coined by Zachary Copfer, who invented the process.

(art, photography, microbiology) The art of creating pictures by growing bacteria and using a light mask to selectively sterilize regions.


bacteriograph

From bacterio- + -graph. From forming pictures out of bacteria. Coined by Zachary Copfer, who invented it.

(art, photography, microbiology) A picture created by growing bacteria and using a light mask to selectively sterilize regions.


bacteriogram

(art, photography, microbiology) An image formed by growing bacteria on a previously used photographic substrate


high camp

Coordinate term: low camp

But rather than drawing on extant rich stories about female superheroes, contemporary comic-based movies either downplay their powers and their personalities or rewrite them as trashy high camp.

2008 September 19, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting Alyssa Rosenberg, “Why is Hollywood ignoring She-Hulk?”, in The Atlantic:

A “tropical melodrama” is how the marketing materials bill “The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão.” If that sounds about the most high-camp subgenre ever devised, Karim Aïnouz’s ravishing period saga lives up to the description […]

2019 May 25, Guy Lodge, “Film Review: ‘The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão’”, in Variety:

en:sophisticated form of camp i.e. campiness

(art, often attributively) A sophisticated form of camp (campiness), which may display good talent and skill.


hard-edge painting

en-noun

hard-edge painting (countable and uncountable, plural hard-edge paintings)

Coined by curator and art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of certain Californian painters.

(art) A style of painting having abrupt transitions between areas of (often plain) color.


naivism

(art) A simple, apparently childish style in art.


naivist

(art) An artist working in the style of naivism.


double coding

double coding (countable and uncountable, plural double codings)

(art, architecture) A mixture of postmodern techniques with traditional styles.


draw through

en-verb

draw through (third-person singular simple present draws through, present participle drawing through, simple past drew through, past participle drawn through)

draws through (present singular third-person)
drawing through (participle present)
drew through (past)
drawn through (participle past)

(art) To keep in mind the entire shape of an object as it is rendered artistically (including the parts of the object that will be covered in the final piece)


serial art

(art) A style of art in which uniform elements or objects are assembled upon strict modular principles.


pictology

Introduced by M. M. van Dantzig, presumably picture + -o- + -logy.

(art) A scientific approach to measuring and analysing the characteristic features of artworks.


aspective

Historical events can also be depicted in aspective art but the artist has no alternative scheme to show that this is a non-recurrent event.

1986, Roger Neich, The Development of New Zealand Maori Figuritive Painting, page 227:

The transformation of the Greek myths into a tragic representation itself corresponds to the passage from aspective to perspective.

1993, Jean-Joseph Goux, Oedipus, Philosopher, page 128:

The differences between perspective and aspective approaches to a subject result in significantly different pieces of art. "Depending on where the viewer places himself the sides are foreshortened, the angles are distorted, and the line bedomes finer as distance increases; in painting the colours and the shadows change, while an aspective artist will normally only render local colours without shadows."

2011, Bennie H. Reynolds III, Between Symbolism and Realism:

(art) Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.


aspective

This unusual sketch from the Valley of the Kings depicts a queen or perhaps a goddess riding into battle in a chariot against a male opponent. She and her adversary are driven by smaller charioteers, according to the laws of aspective."

1978, William H. Peck, Egyptian Drawings:

(art) The techniques that make art aspective as opposed to perspective.


discstone

(art) A carved stone object like a ringstone but without the central hole.


matter painting

en-noun

matter painting (countable and uncountable, plural matter paintings)

(art, uncountable) A 1950s art style using impasto paint with everyday materials such as mud or shells added to it.

(art, countable) An individual work produced in this style.


polychromatize

en-verb

polychromatize (third-person singular simple present polychromatizes, present participle polychromatizing, simple past and past participle polychromatized)

polychromatizes (present singular third-person)
polychromatizing (participle present)
polychromatized (participle past)
polychromatized (past)


polychromism

(art) The application of paint to statues


polychromist

(art) A person who applies paint to statues


naturalesque

en-adj

naturalesque (comparative more naturalesque, superlative most naturalesque)

more naturalesque (comparative)
most naturalesque (superlative)

Some of the forms are handsome, and their quiet, naturalesque ornamentation shows delicacy and feeling.


winterscape

“What a beautiful day, yes?” said Dr. Morales, beaming at the winterscape as if he had created it himself. “It makes you feel like a kid, no?”

1998, Daniel Menaker, “Part One: The Eden of Anxiety”, in The Treatment, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 12:


rotomation

Both films use an animation technique called rotomation. The technique turns live action footage into animation.

2003, Christine Tomassini, Carol Schwartz, Magill's Cinema Annual, page 1642:

Process shots, particularly for Rocket Raccoon and Groot, were achieved through combinations of CGI, motion capture, and rotomation.

2015, Douglas Brode, Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents, page 375:

(art) Rotoscoping, especially when assisted by motion capture technology.


subantique

(art) Relating to, or exhibiting, an antique classical style imitated by a non-classical culture.


net art

Net Art (alternative)
Net art (alternative)
net.art (alternative)
Internet art (alternative)

Net Art’s political posture was characteristic of the feverish, techno-utopian excitement shared by netheads in general.

2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The rapid obsolescence of hardware and software, the existence of many net artworks within restricted platforms and the fact that artworks often act as assemblages that change or mutate, make net art a challenging case for conservation.

2018, Annet Dekker, “Introduction”, in Collecting and Conserving Net Art, Routledge, →ISBN:

(art) A form of new media art distributed via the Internet.


finish fetish

(art) A style of minimalist pop art with a glossy, slick finish.


color field

(art) A large area of flat, solid color, characteristic of a school of modernist abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.


idea art

(art) A form of art based on small individual ideas rather than generic aesthetic, material and disciplinary concerns.


metamatic

Tinguely organized a metamatic art contest for the best picture made on his machines and told a reporter that a metamatic was “an anti-abstract machine, because it proves that anyone can make an abstract picture, even a machine.

1994, Joann R. Prosyniuk, Lawrence J. Trudeau, Modern Arts Criticism, page 289:

In the 1950s, he made a series of motor-driven devices that he called metamatics, which produced instant abstract paintings. He programmed these metamatics electronically to act with an antimechanical unpredictability when someone inserted a felt-tipped marking pen into a pincer and pressed a button […]

2015, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art through the Ages: Backpack Edition, Book E:

(art) Any of a series of machines built in the mid-1950s by Jean Tinguely, able to produce drawings by means of a motor-driven arm.


superflat

(art) A postmodern art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami, influenced by manga, anime, and Japanese consumer culture.


Waterfall

(art, historical) A stylistic art trend for furniture which was popular in the 1930s and 1940s, featuring wooden surfaces and curved edges prominently in its design.


landscapism

Landscapism was not to be confined to a purely aesthetic debate; a veritable science of landscapism, the science of objective space par excellence, university geography, took form during the era of the Parnassians.

1988, Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune, page 85:

Although one can catch glimpses of an English-style “landscapism”, Rubiò always used this style in a local context, keenly aware of the local environment and climate of the South: the green, grassy or ivy lawn became the canvas on which to place various species of plants, and topiary, offering a sort of contrast between geometry and “landscapism”.

2009, Mariella Zoppi, History of the European garden, page 257:

(art) The conventional artistic portrayal of picturesque landscapes.


formalesque

From formal + -esque; coined in 1994 by Australian art historian Bernard Smith, since the period referred to by "modernist" was by then no longer modern.

(art) modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960


tonalise

en-verb

tonalise (third-person singular simple present tonalises, present participle tonalising, simple past and past participle tonalised)

tonalises (present singular third-person)
tonalising (participle present)
tonalised (participle past)
tonalised (past)

With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle. Cora knew what that meant, and stood to be tonalised, relieving self-consciousness in her muscles by stretching and relaxing, and preening up her breasts in those cat-like turnings and twistings of her body that seemed to make an ostentatious exhibition of its graces because of her affectation of unawareness in being looked at.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:

(art, painting) To view or create in terms of tonalism.


pillow shading

(art) A shading technique where shadow is added toward the edges of objects in a scene, irrespective of the light source.


wet palette

(art) A palette having a layer of absorbent material that allows the paint to remain hydrated for an extended period of time.


Holbeinesque

en-adj

Holbeinesque (comparative more Holbeinesque, superlative most Holbeinesque)

more Holbeinesque (comparative)
most Holbeinesque (superlative)

(art) Reminiscent of the style of Hans Holbein the younger.


bandwork

Coordinate term: strapwork

(art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.


sound art

(art) An artistic discipline in which sound is used as a primary medium or material.


field painting

(art) The style of modernist abstract painting that employs color fields.


field painter

(art) An artist working in the style of field painting.


xenoculture

Architecture Xenoculture is the problematization of work produced by embracing the proliferation of this mist of fear.

Xenoculture is a term coined by Iranian writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani that describes the need for embracing and exploring the unexpected, the alien.

XENO Installation for group exhibition "Evolo Xenoculture".

(art, architecture, rare) Unconventional forms of art and architecture that defy social expectations and customs.


autoparody

This was exactly why, for him, the autoparody became her inescapable prison. Above all, this EuroBrazilian artist had, and continued to have, a defining impact within Brazil's mainstream sense of selfhood, so much so that by the late[…]

2015 August 26, Cristina F. Rosa, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation, Springer, →ISBN:

1–6 Another type of historical reference involves a type of reverse autoparody. Consciously or not, Bruckner reuses an imitative sequence from the Kyrie of Palestrina's Mass in his wellknown setting (ca. 1886) of the Gradual Christus[…]

2015 June 24, Chester L. Alwes, A History of Western Choral Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

As Osolsobě observes, parody was both a sign of reputation and a tool with which to achieve it, with eighteenth- century French authors of operas often creating parodies of their own works (autoparodies): parodies not only promote the[…]

2022, Christopher R. Wilson, Mervyn Cooke, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 776:

(literature, art, music) A parody of one's own work.


uke-e

Transliteration of Japanese 有卦絵 (うけえ, ukee), from 有卦 (うけ, uke, “streak of luck”) (有 (う, u, “to have, possess”) + 卦 (け, ke, “divination symbol or sign”)) + 絵 (え, e, “picture”).

translit

This print uses letters as part of the picture but is also an example of an uke-e (lucky print). […] On entering a good luck phase a person would receive gifts such as this print containing seven words beginning with the syllable fu (from fuku = happiness).

2006, Rebecca Salter, “Leisure, Pleasure, Play”, in Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards (A Latitude 20 Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, figure 138 caption, page 134:

(art) A kind of ukiyo-e (“Japanese painting or woodblock print showing a scene of everyday life”) depicting an auspicious subject, which was popular in Japan during the late 1800s.

uke-e

kind of ukiyo-e depicting an auspicious subject


anticlassicist

(art) One who opposes or rejects what is classical.


anticlassicism

(art) Opposition to, or rejection of, what is classical.


Mondrianian

en-adj

Mondrianian (comparative more Mondrianian, superlative most Mondrianian)

more Mondrianian (comparative)
most Mondrianian (superlative)

(art) Of or relating to Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Dutch painter and pioneer of 20th-century abstract art.


apoxyomenos

From Ancient Greek ἀποξυόμενος (apoxuómenos), present mediopassive participle of ἀποξύω (apoxúō, “to scrape off”).

(art) A conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.


retrospectography

From retrospect + -o- + -graphy in both senses. The radiologic sense (from the early 20th century) was developed by radiology technicians and radiologists (who were not yet differentiated from each other at the time). The sense of reviewing photographs and learning additional insights about their subjects/contents was developed in 2017 by Jeffrey Ross of the website JBRish.com.

(art, photography, rare) The further appreciation of a photograph or picture which reveals insights into that image which were not recognized or appreciated at the time of original capture.


subrealism

The infection of Surrealism (subrealism) in the painter's and sculptor's art naturally found its way into the practice of the most universal of the arts.

1937, Henry Rankin Poore, Art's Place in Education, page 90:

But as the development of cubism and other tendencies shows, contemporary art tends to slip away into antirealist abstraction, subrealism and subjectivist creationism, obeying no laws but its own.

1959, Luis Díez del Corral, The Rape of Europe, page 214:

[…] what André Breton called a higher reality—Surrealism. Herbert Read, ironically, called it Superrealism. I would like to suggest that it is a reality of depth, not height, thus—Subrealism. The sound and light of every painter is ultimately this kind, an intensity and unity that demands the courage to dig, the tenacity to cover the distance, and the poetry to bring it to terms.

1981, Arts Magazine, volume 56, page 154:

Give up surrealism that only nourishes subrealism; the two of them, along with the so-called "natural," have got a dubious stench of urinals and churches.

1981, Charles Russell, The Avant-garde Today: An International Anthology, page 208:

Whereas surrealism sought to transcend reality from above, 'subrealism' sought to 'dive through the bottom of reality.' The three artists' activities in Shimomaruko were based on this idea.

2018, Kenji Hasegawa, Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan, page 99:

The kibyōshi picture is a kind of visual paradox in this sense, presenting the reader with the spectacle of subrealism in its sketchiness and hyperrealism in its obsessive attention to trivia drawn from everyday life.

2020, Adam Kern, Manga from the Floating World:

(art) An artistic movement that seeks to explore the basis of perception.

While we wait for the necessary publication of a book about "subrealism" in the cinema, almost entirely devoted to French cinema, with an additional chapter on neo-subrealism , Shoot the Piano Player already presents us with a repertoire sufficiently stocked with the characteristic traits of the new school.

1972, Leo Braudy, Focus on Shoot the Piano Player, page 71:

Thus the fight between socialist realism and Gulag subrealism was not a fight for a dominant artistic method or aesthetic principle, nor even for an adequate epistemological approach, but a fight for the true communist ontology.

1995, Vladislav Todorov, Red Square, Black Square, page 121:

But Sade's ethnographic subrealism exceeds Marx's historical analysis, supplementing Marx's theoretical enterprise with a monstrous form of critical literary engagement.

1999, Deepak Narang Sawhney, Must We Burn Sade?, page 69:

For the avant-garde poet and critic Juan Larrea, the inclination toward the low is approached as a “subrealism” (1944, 89).

2010, Lara Anderson, J. P. Spicer-Escalante, Au Naturel: (Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism, page 234:

(art) The artistic exploration of perverse and unpleasant subject matter.


formline

(art) A curvilinear line fundamental to Native American art of the Pacific Northwest.


coelo-

classical compound
international scientific vocabulary

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow; concave; a cavity, hollow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell; to be strong”)); developed from such earlier Latin terms as coeliac and coelom.

der

Near-synonyms: abdomin-, abdomino-

(art, sciences) hollow; cavity; as:
(anatomy, medicine) abdominal cavity.


ganutell

Borrowed from Maltese ganutell, from Italian cannotiglio.

(art) An art form of making artificial flowers out of wire, beads, and thread.


pre-Romanesque

From pre- + Romanesque, ultimately pre- + Roman + -esque.

Early Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages#English

Migration Period
Migration Period#English

(architecture, art) Pertaining to or characteristic of the art and architecture of the Early Middle Ages in around the 6th to 11th centuries, after the Migration Period and before the Romanesque era.


elementarist

(art) One who works in the artistic style of elementarism.


bisexual lighting

en-noun

bisexual lighting (countable and uncountable, plural bisexual lightings)

/baɪˌsɛkʃʊəl ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

From bisexual (adjective) + lighting (noun), referring to the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag (also known as the bisexual pride flag).

(LGBTQ, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.


hexaptych

From Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold”).

(art) A polyptych consisting of six sections.


Orphist

(art) An artist working in the style of Orphism.


splatterwork

(art) The creation of a design on a surface by spattering colouring matter upon it.


scagliolist

(art, archaic) An artist who works with gypsum.


Yamato-e

(art) A classical Japanese style of painting, characterized by many small figures, detailed depictions of buildings and other objects, an oblique view from above showing interiors, and partial depictions with the remaining area ignored or covered by a cloud.


Payne's grey

Named after the watercolour painter William Payne.

(art) A dark blue-grey colour used in painting, originally a mixture of iron blue (Prussian blue), yellow ochre and crimson lake.


Paul Veronese green

(art) A brilliant bluish-green pigment made with copper arsenate.


Bolley's green

(art) A green pigment made from copper sulfate and borax.


Caravaggisti

(art, historical) The stylistic followers of the late 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.


pâte-sur-pâte

From French pâte-sur-pâte (literally “paste on paste”).

bor

(art) A method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of slip (liquid clay) with a brush, and then carving it to produce fine detail, before the piece is fired.


reverse painting

en-noun

reverse painting (countable and uncountable, plural reverse paintings)

(uncountable) The application of paint to a sheet of glass to create a picture to be viewed through the glass from the other side.

(countable) An artwork produced in this way.


Hafner ware

Hafner ware (countable and uncountable, plural Hafner wares)

(art) A kind of glazed German earthenware.


Rayonism

Rayism (alternative)
Rayonnism (alternative)

(art) An abstract futurist art movement that developed in Russia in 1910–1914.


Ab-Ex

Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism#English


neo-expressionism

(art) A style of late modernist or early postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s as a reaction against the minimal and conceptual art of that time, and was characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.


neo-expressionistic

en-adj

neo-expressionistic (comparative more neo-expressionistic, superlative most neo-expressionistic)

more neo-expressionistic (comparative)
most neo-expressionistic (superlative)

(art) Of or relating to the style of neo-expressionism.


Dürer grid

Named after German artist Albrecht Dürer.

(art) A frame containing a grid of threads, designed to partition an image into segments to aid in perspective drawing.


Barbizon

(art, attributive) The Barbizon School, a realist art movement active roughly from 1830 to 1870, characterized by its tonal qualities, color, loose brushwork, and softness of form.


post-Cubist

(art) An artist who works in a style of art that developed from cubism.


effectism

I despise imitation and effectism. No great art ever rose or ever can rise that is based upon imitation or that sacrifices truth for effect.

1894, Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, The Forum, volume 17, page 696:

(art, derogatory) A form of art based on producing an effect rather than conveying an idea.


cubo-futuristic

cubo-futuristic (comparative more cubo-futuristic, superlative most cubo-futuristic)

more cubo-futuristic (comparative)
most cubo-futuristic (superlative)

(art, historical) Relating to cubo-futurism.


twisted perspective

One example of twisted perspective is the ‘law of frontality, which, with about a four-hundred-year period of minor exceptions, dominated Egyptian art for over twenty-five hundred years. It allows views only of the full surface, whether front, side or rear, of the part to be depicted. It does not allow views of partial surfaces as seen in life, nor of oblique angles showing sides foreshortened[…]

2004, Brener, Milton E., Vanishing points: Three dimensional perspective in art and history, page 16:

(art) A perspective that combines both profile view and front view.


buy with one's ears

en-verb

buy with one's ears (third-person singular simple present buys with one's ears, present participle buying with one's ears, simple past and past participle bought with one's ears)

buys with one's ears (present singular third-person)
buying with one's ears (participle present)
bought with one's ears (participle past)
bought with one's ears (past)

Foreign buyers entering the western art market are also buying artists with their ears rather than their eyes, and overpaying if others have.

2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:

(art, colloquial) To buy works of art based on reputation and expected future gains rather than aesthetic or artistic value.


dab out

dab out (third-person singular simple present dabs out, present participle dabbing out, simple past and past participle dabbed out)

dabs out (present singular third-person)
dabbing out (participle present)
dabbed out (participle past)
dabbed out (past)

(transitive, art) To dab (to press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing) using paint to produce a desired effect.


line drawing

From line + drawing. First use appears c. 1891. The figurative sense is a deverbal form of the expression draw the line. The exact date of its first appearance is uncertain.

(art) A pen or pencil drawing consisting only of solid lines.


healing art

(art, uncommon) Any type of art or art form intended for therapeutic purposes.


ANSI art

ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.

(computing, art) A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.

American National Standards Institute
en:ANSI X3.64
en:ANSI art


Abbreviation of free to use, from free + 2 (“abbreviation of to”) + use.

compound

abbreviation of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">to</i>

(furry fandom, Internet slang, art) A drawing or render, usually line art, that may be adapted, coloured in or altered.


light profile

en-noun

light profile (countable and uncountable, plural light profiles)

Each male summons forth a female pendant down along its contour, a negative of itself with which it is locked into a kiss: the male "shadow profile" at left is kissing a female "light profile"; the male "light profile" at right, a female "shadow profile."

2016, Sebastian Zeidler, Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art, page 198:

(art) An outline or profile in which the figure is light and the background is shadow.


triptography

(art, photography) A surrealist photographic technique whereby a roll of film is used three times (by one or more photographers), resulting in a triple exposure with no clear subject.


cubomania

(art) The surrealist technique of making collages by cutting an image into squares and reassembling them at random.


bulletism

(art) The surrealist technique of shooting ink at a blank piece of paper to produce an initial shape.


heatage

(art, photography) The surrealist technique of heating an exposed but unfixed photographic negative, resulting in a distorted image.


étrécissement

étrécissement (countable and uncountable, plural étrécissements)

From French [Term?]. See étrécir (“to make narrow”).

(uncountable) The surrealist technique of cutting away parts of images to develop a new image.

(countable) An image formed by this technique.


involuntary sculpture

involuntary sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural involuntary sculptures)

(art) In surrealism, "sculpture" formed by absent-mindedly manipulating an object.


paranoiac-critical

[T]heir motions tend to convey a kind of implicit critique of the social as surface, as empty speech, and commence a paranoiac-critical stance toward society which is refigured into a kind of dumb show through such a differential "depth of field" […].

2013, Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage, page 140:

(art) Of or relating to the Dalian surrealist technique of inducing a paranoid state in one's own mind in order to deconstruct the psychological concept of identity, such that subjectivity becomes the primary aspect of the artwork.


pen painting

pen painting (countable and uncountable, plural pen paintings)

(art) A painting technique in which the artist first grounds a canvas with white oil paint before drawing on it with blue India ink.


point-projection perspective

linear perspective
linear perspective#English


art epic

(art) A work of art that is similar to a traditional epic, especially in its depiction of heroic deeds and adventures.


Knielauf

(historical, art) A schema for the depiction of rapid movement found particularly in Archaic Greek and Etruscan art, in which one knee is depicted as being bent to the point of nearly touching the ground.


half-relief

half-relief (countable and uncountable, plural half-reliefs)


rug hooking

rug hooking (usually uncountable, plural rug hookings)

(art, textiles) An art and a craft where a rug is made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp.


preclaim

en-verb

preclaim (third-person singular simple present preclaims, present participle preclaiming, simple past and past participle preclaimed)

preclaims (present singular third-person)
preclaiming (participle present)
preclaimed (participle past)
preclaimed (past)
pre-claim (alternative)

(art) To claim an adoptable in advance (before completion or auction).


preclaim

preclaims (plural)
pre-claim (alternative)

(art) Claiming an adoptable in advance (before completion or auction).


soft sculpture

en-noun

soft sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural soft sculptures)

(art) A kind of three-dimensional art form incorporating supple and non-rigid materials that may be stuffed, sewn, glued, woven, etc.


purchase prize

(art) The prize, in an art competition, of having one's winning artwork purchased.


same face syndrome

(informal, art) The phenomenon in which an artist consistently draws different characters with faces that look identical.


low camp

Coordinate term: high camp

en:unsophisticated form of camp i.e. campiness

(art, often attributively) An unsophisticated form of camp (campiness), which may sometimes be cringeworthy.


Black Madonna

Western Christianity
Western Christianity

(Christianity, art) A statue or painting in Western Christianity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin.


yellowism

(art) A conceptual movement or a system where everything is reduced to, or flattened to, the color yellow, representing a single, unifying interpretation.