torso

Borrowed from Italian torso, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of tirso and possibly trozo.


pastel

From Old French pastel. Cognate with English pastel.


medio

es-adj

medio (feminine media, masculine plural medios, feminine plural medias)

media (feminine)
medios (masculine plural)
medias (feminine plural)

Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico

Borrowed directly from Latin medius (“half”) rather than inherited through an Old Spanish form, possibly because the likely forms *meo and *meyo would have closely resembled mear (“to piss”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. In reference to spiritual mediums, calqued from Latin medium. Doublet of media. Cognate with English medium.

(art) tasteful, bourgeois (well decorated or executed but not sublime)


medio

¿Cuál es tu medio de pintura favorito?

(physics) medium (the physical space and substance through which some phenomenon occurs)

(art) medium (the physical substances with which art is made)


caricatura

Borrowed from Italian caricatura (“caricature”), from caricare (“carry”), from Late Latin carricāre (“carry”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *k̑ers- (“to run”).

bor+

(art) caricature (pictorial representation of someone for comic effect)


mosaico

es-adj

mosaico (feminine mosaica, masculine plural mosaicos, feminine plural mosaicas)

mosaica (feminine)
mosaicos (masculine plural)
mosaicas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, from Late Latin musivum (opus), from Latin museum, musaeum, probably from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses, (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).


abstracto

abstracto (feminine abstracta, masculine plural abstractos, feminine plural abstractas)

abstracta (feminine)
abstractos (masculine plural)
abstractas (feminine plural)

(art) abstract (free from representational qualities)


animalista

es-noun

animalista m or f by sense (plural animalistas)

(art) animalist (painter or sculptor whose primary subject is animals)


cubista

es-adj

cubista m or f (masculine and feminine plural cubistas)


cubista

es-noun

cubista m or f by sense (plural cubistas)


divisionista

divisionista m or f by sense (plural divisionistas)


divisionista

es-adj

divisionista m or f (masculine and feminine plural divisionistas)

divisionistas (feminine masculine plural)


apostolado

→ English: apostolado

(art) apostolado (series of portraits of the apostles)


verista

verista m or f (masculine and feminine plural veristas)


abstraccionismo

es-noun

abstraccionismo m (plural abstraccionismos)


predela

Borrowed from Italian predella, from Lombardic pretil.


arte povera

Borrowed from Italian arte povera (literally “poor art”).

bor+

(art) Arte Povera (Italian modern art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s)


academicismo

(art) academicism (traditional or orthodox formalism)


apropiacionismo

es-noun

apropiacionismo m (plural apropiacionismos)


transvanguardia

transvanguardia f (plural transvanguardias)

[t̪ɾãnz.β̞ãŋˈɡwaɾ.ð̞ja]

Y el comisario Achille Bonito Oliva (inventor de la hoy devaluada transvanguardia italiana) lo mostró en la Bienal de Venecia de 1993.

2015 July 22, “El realismo socialista de Mao viaja en Rolls Royce con Wang Guangyi”, in El País:


arte pobre

Calque of Italian arte povera (“poor art”).


imaginería

Para ello, la incipiente imaginería chapina tallaba figuras en madera de José y María, el niño Jesús —el misterio—, los reyes magos, pastorcillos y ovejas; la mayoría, con rasgos europeos.

2015 December, “Nochebuena antigua”, in Prensa Libre:


pastelista

es-noun

pastelista m or f by sense (plural pastelistas)

(art) pastellist (an artist who works in pastels)


aerografía

aerografía f (countable and uncountable, plural aerografías)

(art) aerography (branch of surrealist art)


reelaboración

reelaboración f (plural reelaboraciones)


geometrismo

(art) geometrism; a focus on geometric forms in visual art or the various movements, especially in Mexico, that have supported it


pintoresquismo

pintoresquismo m (plural pintoresquismos)

(art) a tendency or movement in visual art that opts for the picturesque


matérico

es-adj

matérico (feminine matérica, masculine plural matéricos, feminine plural matéricas)

matérica (feminine)
matéricos (masculine plural)
matéricas (feminine plural)


pintura al temple

es-noun

pintura al temple f (plural pinturas al temple)