Art terms
Learn about the materials, techniques, movements, and themes of modern and contemporary art from around the world.
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Happenings
Emerging from the live performances and spectacles of Dada and Surrealism, Happenings were events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Harlem Renaissance
A period of African American literary, artistic, and intellectual activity centered in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, spanning from the 1920s
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Hologram
A three-dimensional image that results when recordings of two waveforms of a light source (such as a light beam) are superimposed.
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Hue
A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint. Hue can also simply mean “color.”
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