Art terms
This glossary explains some of the techniques, mediums, art movements, and other terms you’ll encounter on our website, along with links to examples in the collection.
190 terms
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Abstract Expressionism
7 examples -
Abstraction
4 examples -
Action painting
3 examples -
Actuality
5 examples -
Allover painting
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Ambrotype
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Aquatint
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Architectural fragment
6 examples -
Architectural model
6 examples -
Architecture
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Arte Povera
4 examples -
Artist’s book
4 examples -
Arts and Crafts movement
6 examples -
Assemblage
8 examples -
Audio
6 examples -
Automatism
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Avant-garde
7 examples -
Bauhaus
8 examples -
Ben-Day dots
4 examples -
Biomorphic
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Black Maria
0 examples -
Black Mountain College
2 examples -
B movie
1 example -
Canvas
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Cartes-de-visite
2 examples -
Cast
6 examples -
Charcoal
9 examples -
Chine collé
4 examples -
Choreography
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Chromogenic color print
6 examples -
Cinématographe
2 examples -
CoBrA
2 examples -
Collage
12 examples -
Collotype
1 example -
Colored pencil
5 examples -
Color Field painting
4 examples -
Combine
3 examples -
Conceptual art
7 examples -
Constructivism
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Contact print
3 examples -
Critical Design
1 example -
Cubism
7 examples -
Dada
7 examples -
Daguerreotype
3 examples -
Decalcomania
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Degenerate art
5 examples -
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
4 examples -
Design
12 examples -
de Stijl
8 examples -
Diazotype
3 examples -
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
6 examples -
Digital print
3 examples -
Diptych
8 examples -
Direct Cinema
4 examples -
Documentary film
4 examples -
Double exposure
1 example -
Drawing
8 examples -
Drypoint
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Dye transfer print
7 examples -
Earthwork
8 examples -
Edition
8 examples -
Embossing
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Enamel
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Engraving
6 examples -
Etching
6 examples -
Expressionism
4 examples -
Exquisite corpse
6 examples -
Fauvism
5 examples -
Feminist art
9 examples -
Figurative
7 examples -
Film
10 examples -
Fluxus
6 examples -
Found object
6 examples -
Frottage
8 examples -
Furniture and interiors
4 examples -
Futurism
6 examples -
Gelatin silver print (developing-out paper)
5 examples -
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print (POP)
7 examples -
Gouache
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Graphic design
5 examples -
Graphite
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Happenings
2 examples -
Illustrated book
2 examples -
Impasto
6 examples -
Impressionism
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Industrial design
9 examples -
Ink
10 examples -
Inkjet print
6 examples -
Installation
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Institutional critique
7 examples -
Intaglio
6 examples -
International Style
7 examples -
Kinetic art
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Kinetograph
1 example -
Lead
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Letterpress
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Linoleum cut
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Lithography
8 examples -
Mail art
2 examples -
Mass production
6 examples -
Melodrama
3 examples -
Merz
2 examples -
Mexican Muralism
2 examples -
Mezzotint
4 examples -
Minimalism
6 examples -
Mobile
1 example -
Monochrome
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Monotype
8 examples -
Montage
3 examples -
Multiple
6 examples -
Mural
3 examples -
Neo-Impressionism
3 examples -
Neon
2 examples -
Neo-Plasticism
2 examples -
Op art
3 examples -
Orphism
3 examples -
Painting
7 examples -
Papier mâché
3 examples -
Pastel
7 examples -
Patina
2 examples -
Pencil
3 examples -
Performance
6 examples -
Periodical
6 examples -
Perspective
3 examples -
Photography
9 examples -
Photogravure
7 examples -
Photomontage
3 examples -
Pictorialism
10 examples -
Plastic
6 examples -
Platinum print
6 examples -
Pochoir
1 example -
Pointillism
3 examples -
Pop art
6 examples -
Portfolio
2 examples -
Portrait
11 examples -
Poster
7 examples -
Post-Impressionism
6 examples -
Postmodernism
6 examples -
Prefabrication
3 examples -
Primitive Art
5 examples -
Print
6 examples -
Printer
1 example -
Product design
7 examples -
Proof
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Propaganda
6 examples -
Prototype
3 examples -
Radical Architecture
4 examples -
Rayograph
4 examples -
Readymade
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Relief
5 examples -
Relief print
0 examples -
Resin
6 examples -
Salted paper print
5 examples -
Score
1 example -
Screenprint
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Sculpture
6 examples -
Self-portrait
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Shadow box
3 examples -
Short
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Silkscreen
8 examples -
Sketch
6 examples -
Skyscraper
6 examples -
Social Realism
5 examples -
Software
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Sound-on-disc
4 examples -
Sound-on-film
1 example -
Special effect
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Stencil
3 examples -
Still life
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Street photography
5 examples -
Suprematism
4 examples -
Surrealism
8 examples -
Symbolism
4 examples -
Tempera
6 examples -
Textile
6 examples -
The New Art
5 examples -
The New Objectivity
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Tintype
4 examples -
Triptych
5 examples -
Typography
8 examples -
Vaudeville
1 example -
Vehicle
8 examples -
Vernacular photography
14 examples -
Video
8 examples -
Vorticism
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Watercolor
11 examples -
Website
1 example -
Wide shot
5 examples -
Woodcut
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Young British Artists
5 examples