Showing 17 art terms
Tableau
Tableau is used to describe a painting or photograph in which characters are arranged for picturesque or dramatic effect and …
Tachisme
Term used to describe the non-geometric abstract art that developed in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s characterized by spontaneous …
Tempera
The technique of painting with pigments bound in a water-soluble emulsion, such as water and egg yolk, or an oil-in-water …
The Ancients
The Ancients were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake in the last …
The black aesthetic
The black aesthetic is a cultural ideology that developed in America alongside the civil rights movement in the 1960s and …
The Blk Art Group
Formed in Wolverhampton, England, in 1979, The Blk Art Group was an association of young black artists who, inspired by …
The Clique
The Clique was an informal society formed in around 1837 by a group of friends while they were students at …
The New Vision
The New Vision was a photography movement which developed in the 1920s directly related to the principles of the Bauhaus
The Photo-Secession
Group of American photographers who believed that photography was a fine art
The Seven and Five Society
Formed in London in 1919 The Seven and Five Society was initially a traditional group and can be seen as …
The uncanny
A concept in art associated with psychologist Sigmund Freud which describes a strange and anxious feeling sometimes created by familiar …
Time-based media
Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension
Tone
The lightness or darkness of something – this could be a shade, or how dark or light a colour appears
Trompe l'oeil
French phrase meaning ‘deceives the eye’ used to describe paintings that create the illusion of a real object or scene
Tropicália
Tropicália is used to describe the explosion of cultural creativity in Rio de Janerio and São Paulo in 1968 as …