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| A western cultural phenomenon, beginning around 1750 and ending about 1850, that gave precedence to feeling and imagination over reason and thought. More narrowly, the art movement that flourished from about 1800 to 1840. |
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| A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later 18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures, characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome |
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| Characteristics include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. |
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| Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. The term also describes works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid. |
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| French term describing the practice of painting outdoors. |
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| Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brushstrokes and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color. |
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| A system of painting devised by the 19th century French painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots (points). The image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewer's eyes optically blend the pigment dots. Sometimes referred to as divisionism |
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| 20th-century modernist art that is the result of the artist's unique inner or personal vision and that often has an emotional dimension. Expressionism contrasts with art focused on visually describing the empirical world. |
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| An early 20th-century art movement that rejected naturalistic depiction, preferring composition of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world. |
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| Simplifying, art that does not have any naturalistic representation. |
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| A component of abstract art, art that has no object. |
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| Similar to abstraction, art that is not representational of anything in the natural world. |
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| Surrealist works feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions. However, many Surrealist artists regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. |
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| Also called ny school of painting, the first major American avant-garde movement, the artist produced abstract paintings that expressed their state of mind and were intended to strike emotional chords in the viewer. The movement developed along two lines: gestural abstraction and chromatic abstraction |
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| Exploring and embracing popular culture |
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| A printing technique that involves the modulation of color through the placement of individual colored dots. |
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| A printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink blocking stencil. |
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