Art terms
Learn about the materials, techniques, movements, and themes of modern and contemporary art from around the world.
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Kamoinge Workshop
With a name derived from the Kikuyu word for “a group of people acting together,” a photography collective founded in 1963 as a shared political and artistic
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Kinetic art
Art that moves or has an element of motion. Artists making kinetic art may use motors to produce motion or may structure the work so that it is responsive
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Kinetograph
The world’s first motion-picture camera, developed in 1890 by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and his assistant and protégé, William K. L. Dickson.
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Kinetoscope
A cabinet-like apparatus, forerunner of the motion-picture film projector, developed in 1891 by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and his assistant
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