Nouveau réalisme

Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface

Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought specially

Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted

Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

The term readymade was first used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from manufactured objects. It has since often been applied more generally to artworks by other artists made in this way

Décollage is a French word meaning literally to unstick, generally associated with a process used by artists of the nouveau réalisme (new realism) movement that involved making art from posters ripped from walls

The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

Happenings were theatrical events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s

TateShots asked one of Yves Klein's collaborators about her experience of being used as a 'human paintbrush'

Created for improvised performances in public spaces, Nicola L’s 11-person Red Coat travels around the world declaring ‘The Same Skin for Everybody’

Marcel Duchamp’s phial of Paris air, Yves Klein’s The Void exhibition, Martin Creed’s Work No.227: The lights going on and off, Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box – for decades, artists have pushed the boundaries of how close to nothing an artwork or exhibition can be. How far can they go?

Explore how European artists produced ground-breaking Pop Art and made reference to Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings