Glossary Terms

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• 20th century
• 20th-century art movements

a

• Abrasion
• Abstract Art
• Abstract Expressionism
• Abstract expressionist
• Académie Humbert
• Academie Julian
• Accademia Gallery
• Accent
• Acrylic
• Action Painting
• Aerial Perspective
• Aeschylus
• Aesthetic
• Albrecht Durer
• Alex Mitow
• Alexandros of Antioch
• Alfred Sisley
• Alkyd
• Alla Prima
• Allover Painting
• Alyson Shotz
• Ambient Light
• Analogous Colors
• Analytic Cubism
• Ancient Art
• Andrea Mantegna
• Andy Warhol
• Annie Leibovitz
• Aphrodite
• Aquatint
• Architecture
• Archival
• Armature
• Art
• Art brut
• Art Collection
• Art collector
• Art Dealer
• Art Deco
• Art Education
• Art History
• Art in America
• Art Informel
• Art Installation
• Art Movement
• Art Nouveau
• Art Theory
• Artist
• Artist'S Proof
• ARTnews
• Arts and Crafts Movement
• Arts and Industries Building
• Asia Minor
• Assemblage
• Association Américaine des Beaux-Arts
• Atelier
• Athens
• Atmospheric Perspective
• Auguste Rodin
• Automatic writing
• Automatism
• Avant-Garde
• Aventura Arts & Cultural Center

b

• Balance
• Baptism of Christ
• Barcelona
• Barcelona Academy of Fine Arts
• Barnett Newman
• Baroque
• Baroque Art
• Bas Relief
• Basel
• Basquiat and the Bayou
• Bauhaus
• Berlin
• Binder
• Birth of Venus
• Boston Museum School
• Botticelli
• Bronx Museum of Art
• Bronze
• Brooklyn Museum
• Broward Center for the Performing Arts
• Brushwork
• Burnishing
• Byzantine Art
• Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine Tradition

c

• Calligraphy
• Camille Pissarro
• Canaletto
• Canvas
• Caravaggio
• Carlos Cruz-Diez
• Carnegie International
• Carrie Mae Weems
• Cartoon
• Casting
• Cayla Birk
• Centre Pompidou
• Ceramics
• Chiaroscuro
• Chroma
• Cinema
• Classical Style
• Claude Monet
• Coiling
• Collage
• Cologne Dada Group
• Color
• Color Field Painting
• Color Theory
• Color Wheel
• Complementary Colors
• Composition
• Conceptual Art
• Construction
• Constructivism
• Conte
• Contemporary Art
• Content
• Contour Drawing
• Contour Line
• Contrapposto
• Cool Colors
• Cosimo de Medici
• Craftsmanship
• Cross-Hatching
• Cubism
• Cubist
• Curvilinear
• Cut Piece
• Cy Twombly

d

• Dada
• Daguerreotype
• Dancer
• David
• David Alfaro Siqueiros
• De Stijl
• Decoupage
• Design
• Dia Art Foundation
• Diego Rivera
• Diego Velázquez
• Digital Art
• Digital Printing
• Diptych
• Distortion
• Dominance
• Donatello
• Drip Paintings
• Drypoint
• Dynamic

e

• Early Renaissance
• Earthenware
• Earthwork
• Ecole des Arts Decoratifs
• Ecole des Beaux-Arts
• Edgar Degas
• Edition
• Edouard Manet
• Edouard Vuillard
• Egyptian Museum
• El Techo de la Ballena
• Encaustic Painting
• Engraving
• Environmental Art
• Ernest Hemingway
• Etching
• Etruscan Museum
• Eugène Delacroix
• European Art
• Exhibition
• Expressionism

f

• Fauvism
• Federal Art Project (FAP)
• Federal Music Project (FMP)
• Federal Theatre Project (FTP)
• Fernand Leger
• Figure Art
• Figure-ground Perception
• Filippo Brunelleschi
• Fine Art
• Fixative
• Florence
• Florentine Renaissance
• Fluxus
• Folk Art
• Foreshortening
• Form
• Fort Lauderdale
• Found object art
• Frame
• Francesco Guardi
• Francis Picabia
• Francisco Goya
• Frank Stella
• Fresco
• Frida Kahlo
• Futurism

g

• Galerie de l'Effort Moderne
• Galerie Durand-Ruel
• Galerie Vollard
• Genre
• Genre Art
• Geodesic Dome
• Georges Braque
• Georges Rouault
• Georges Seurat
• Georges Vantongerloo
• German Renaissance
• Germany
• Gertrude Stein
• Gesso
• Ghirlandaio
• Giambattista Tiepolo
• Giorgio Vasari
• Giorgione
• Giotto
• Giovanni Bellini
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Gothic Architecture
• Gothic Art
• Gothic Style
• Gouache
• Graffiti
• Grand Prix National de la Peinture
• Gregorian Egyptian Museum
• Ground
• Guernica
• Guggenheim Fellowship

h

• Handcrafted
• Hans Arp
• Hard Edge Painting
• Harmony
• Hatching
• Heidelberg
• Hellenistic Period
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Henri Matisse
• High Middle Ages
• High Renaissance
• Historical Art
• Homer
• Hors d’commerce
• Hue

i

• Impressionism
• Impressionists
• Installation Art
• Intaglio
• International Association of Art
• Italian Renaissance
• Italy

j

• Jackson Pollock
• Jacques Louis David
• James Joyce
• Jean Arp
• Jean Dubuffet
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Joan Miró
• Johannes Vermeer
• Jose Clemente Orozco
• Joseph Csaky
• Juan Gris

k

• Kurt Schwitters

l

• La Mouvement
• Landscape Art
• Leo Castelli Gallery
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Léonce Rosenberg
• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
• Les Nabis
• Lithography
• Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
• London
• Los Contemporáneos
• Louvre Museum
• Lyonel Feininger

m

• Madrid
• Manifesto
• Mannerism
• Maquette
• Marcel Duchamp
• Margo Sawyer
• Mark Rothko
• Mark Tobey
• Mary Cassatt
• Maryland Institute College
• Masaccio
• Mass
• Matte
• Max Ernst
• Meander
• Medici Collection
• Medici Family
• Medieval Art
• Medieval Period
• Medium
• Mesopotamian Art
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Mexican Art
• Mexican Mural Movement
• Michelangelo
• Minimalism
• Mixed Media
• Mobile
• Modelling
• Modern Art
• Monochromatic
• Monotype
• Monotyping
• Montage
• Montparnasse
• Mosaic
• Munich Secession
• Mural
• Musée d’Orsay
• Museo Christiano
• Museo Pio-Clementino
• Museum of Modern Art
• Musician

n

• Narrative Art
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Naturalistic Art
• Negative Space
• Neo-expressionism
• Neo-Impressionism
• Neoclassical Art
• Neoclassical Style
• Neutral
• New York City
• New York School
• Nike of Samothrace
• Non-objective Art
• North America
• Northern Renaissance
• Nude in a Landscape

o

• Oaxaca
• Op Art
• Optical Color Mixture
• Organic Art
• Overlapping

p

• Pablo Picasso
• Painter
• Painterly Style
• Painting
• Palatine Gallery
• Palazzo Vecchio
• Paris
• Pastel
• Patina
• Paul Cézanne
• Paul Gauguin
• Paul Klee
• Paul Sérusier
• Paul Signac
• Peggy Guggenheim
• Pentimento
• Performance Art
• Pergamon Altar
• Perspective
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Photography
• Photorealism
• Pictorial Space
• Picture Plane
• Piero della Francesca
• Pierre Bonnard
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Piet Mondrian
• Pieta
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• Pigment
• Pinacoteca Vaticana
• Pitti Palace
• Planetary Society
• Planographic Printing
• Poet
• Pointillism
• Polychromatic
• Pop Art
• Pop culture
• Porcelain
• Portraiture
• Positive Space
• Post Impressionism
• Post-Impressionist
• Postmodern Art
• Pottery
• Praxiteles
• Prehistoric Art
• Primary Colors
• Primitive Art
• Princeton University
• Print
• Printmaker
• Printmaking
• Proportion
• Public Domain

r

• Raphael
• Readymades
• Realism
• Relative apparent size
• Relative position
• Relief
• Relief Printing
• Religious Art
• Rembrandt
• Renaissance
• Renaissance Art
• Renaissance Literature
• Representational art
• Republic of Florence
• Republic of Venice
• Richard Buckminster Fuller
• Richard Hamilton
• Rococo
• Romanesque
• Romanesque Painting
• Romanesque Period
• Romanticism
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Rufino Tamayo
• Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (RPAF)

s

• Saint-Tropez
• Salon d’Automne
• Salon des Refusés
• Salvador Dalí
• San Francisco Art Institute
• Sasha Krivtsov
• Scale
• School of Athens
• Sculptor
• Sculpture
• Secondary colors
• Serigraph
• Sfumato
• Shape
• Silhouette
• Simultaneous contrast
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Sistine Chapel
• Site-Specific
• Sketch
• Slade School of Fine Art
• Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Commentary
• Social Injustice
• Social Movement
• Société des Artistes Indépendants
• Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA)
• Space
• St. Jerome in His Study
• St. Peter's Basilica
• Stencil
• Still life
• Stippling
• Study
• Style
• Stylized
• Superfine Art Fair
• Support surface
• Surrealism
• Symbol
• Symbolism
• Symbolist Movement
• Symmetry

t

• Tachism
• Taos Pueblo
• Tapestry
• Tate Gallery
• Tempera
• Tertiary colors
• Texture
• The Adoration of the Magi
• The Annunciation
• The Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca
• The Basquiat Family Collection
• The Cubist Room
• The Duomo
• The Epic of American Civilization
• The Hay Wagon
• The Laocoön Group
• The Last Supper
• The Menil Collection
• The Mona Lisa
• The National Gallery
• The Persistence of Memory
• The Prisoners
• The Spelman College Art Gallery
• The Thinker 
• The Walker Art Center
• The Whitney Museum of American Art
• Theo van Doesburg
• Tintoretto
• Titian
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Tonality
• Triptych
• Trompe-l’oeil

u

• U.S. National Museum
• Uffizi Gallery
• Underpainting

v

• Value
• Vanishing point
• Vatican City
• Vatican Museums
• Vedute
• Venetian Academy of Painters
• Venetian Painting
• Venetian School
• Venice
• Venus de Milo
• Venus of Arles
• Veronese
• Video Art
• Villa Stuck
• Vincent van Gogh
• Visible Spectrum
• Volume

w

• Warm
• Wash
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Watercolor
• Willem de Kooning
• Works of Art
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• World War I
• World War II
• Writer

y

• Yoko Ono
• Yoshio Taniguchi
• Yves Klein

z

• Zurich