Showing 1–30 of 33 art terms
Nabis
Les Nabis were a group of post-impressionist French painters active from 1888–1900 whose work is characterised by flat patches of …
Naïve art
Naïve art is simple, unaffected and unsophisticated – usually specifically refers to art made by artists who have had no …
Naturalism
Naturalism was a broad movement in the nineteenth century which represented things closer to the way we see them
Nazarenes
The Nazarenes were a group of German artists founded in 1809. Their aim was to regenerate German painting by returning …
Négritude
Négritude was an anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in …
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism was a particularly pure form of classicism that emerged from about 1750
Neo-concrete
The neo-concrete movement was a splinter group of the 1950s Brazilian concrete art movement, calling for a greater sensuality, colour …
Neo-dada
The term neo-dada applied to the work of artists working in America in the 1950s and 1960s which was reminiscent …
Neo-expressionism
Neo-expressionism acted as a major revival of painting in an expressionist manner in the 1980s and it occurred internationally
Neo-geo
Short for neo-geometric conceptualism, the term neo-geo came into use in the early 1980s in America to describe the work …
Neo-impressionism
Neo-impressionism is the name given to the post-impressionist work of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and their followers who, inspired by …
Neo-plasticism
Neo-plasticism is a term adopted by the Dutch pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian, for his own type of abstract …
Neo-romanticism
Neo-romanticism is a term applied to the imaginative and often quite abstract landscape based painting of Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland …
Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKV)
Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKV) were an avant-garde exhibiting society founded in Munich in 1909
Neue Sachlichkeit
Usually translated as ‘New Objectivity’, Neue Sachlichkeit was a German modern realist movement of the 1920s
Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK)
The Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) were a pioneering artist collective formed in the 1980s in Slovenia which addressed the social …
Neue Wilde
The term Neue Wilde was used in Germany for neo-expressionism, a movement which saw the re-emergence of expressive painting in …
New British sculpture
The term New British sculpture applies to the work of young British sculptors in the 1980s who, in reaction to …
New English Art Club
The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1886 as an exhibiting society by artists influenced by …
New figuration
New figuration is a blanket term referring to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 1960s …
New generation sculpture
New generation sculpture were a group of young British sculptors working in the 1960s, who experimented with materials, forms and …
New genre public art
The term new genre public art, refers to public art, often activist in nature, and created outside institutional structures in …
Newlyn school
The term Newlyn school refer to a group of artists who settled in Newlyn and St Ives in the late …
New media
A term new media is used to describe the sophisticated new technologies that have become available to artists since the …
New Objectivity
New Objectivity is the English translation of 'Neue Sachlichkeit', a German modern realist movement of the 1920s, described by one …
New sculpture
New sculpture is a name applied to the sculptures produced by a group of artists working in the second half …
New spirit painting
New spirit painting is a term which refers to the resurgence of expressionist painting around 1980
New topographics
New topographics was a term coined by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers (such as …
New York school
The term New York school seems to have come into use in the 1940s to describe the radical art scene …