Advanced Vocabulary - Styles and Methods in Art

Styles and Methods in Art

abstract expressionism noun

art a style in abstract art in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things rather than showing objects as they really appear.

agitprop noun

art, literature, or music that supports political beliefs.

aquatint noun

art the method used to make aquatint pictures.

art deco noun

art a style of art, decoration, and architecture with simple strong lines that was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe and the US.

art nouveau noun

art a style of art, decoration, and architecture that uses curved patterns of leaves, flowers, and other natural objects, and was popular at the end of the 19th century in Europe and the US.

Arts and Crafts adjective

made in a style that returned to using patterns, materials, and methods that existed before industrial production, following ideas developed in England in the late 19th century.

the avant-garde noun

art the art that is produced by avant-garde artists.

baroque adjective

art, music relating to the very detailed style of art, building, or music that was popular in Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

brushwork noun

art the way an artist creates effects using a brush.

camp noun

a style of art or entertainment that deliberately does not follow traditional ideas about what is considered good in order to produce a humorous effect.

chiaroscuro noun

art the way that light and dark areas create a pattern, especially in drawings and paintings .

classicism noun

art, literature a style of art or literature based on ancient Greek and Roman styles that is beautiful in a simple controlled way.

conceptual art noun

art art in which the idea the artist wants to express though a piece of work is more important than the work itself.

expressionism noun

art a style in art, literature, and music in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things rather than objects as they really appear.

form noun

the structure of a piece of writing or music or a painting.

formalism noun

a style or method in art, literature, music etc in which there is more emphasis on obeying formal rules than expressing meaning or emotion.

freeform adjective

freeform music or art does not obey the usual rules for creating a piece of music or art.

futurism noun

art, literature a movement in art and literature in the early 20th century that used technology as its subject.

genre noun

a particular style used in cinema, writing, or art, which can be recognized by certain features.

Gothic adjective

literature Gothic novels and films have frightening and mysterious subjects.

Gothic noun

Gothic buildings or literature.

gouache noun

art a style of painting using these paints, or the paints used.

idealism noun

art a style of art that shows things in a perfect state.

idiom noun

a particular style in language, art, or music.

Impressionism noun

art a style of painting in which artists use light and colour to give the general feeling of a scene, rather than exact detail Impressionism began in France in the middle of the 19th century.

lyricism noun

art the expression of feeling in art.

magical realism noun

magic realism.

magic realism noun

cinema, literature a type of literature or cinema in which very strange things happen in ordinary situations, as they do in dreams.

medium noun

a particular type of art used as a way of expressing ideas or feelings.

minimalism noun

art a style of art that developed in the 1960s and uses a small number of simple shapes and colours.

mode noun

formal a particular fashion or style of art, literature, clothes etc.

modernism noun

art, literature a style of art, literature etc that developed in the early part of the 20th century.

montage noun

the method of combining several different pictures, pieces of music etc, to create a single piece.

motif noun

an idea, subject, or pattern that is frequently repeated in a piece of literature, art etc.

naturalism noun

art, literature a style of art and literature that shows people as they are in real life.

new wave noun

art, theatre a form of art, music, theatre etc that uses new styles and ideas.

op art noun

art a style of painting that uses lines and shapes that seem to move when you look at them.

pastiche noun

a work of literature, music, art, or film that makes use of material from other similar works, especially in order to laugh in a gentle way at those other works.

pastiche noun

the art or practice of creating works of art in this way.

personification noun

art, literature the practice of showing a particular quality in the form of a person, or an instance of this.

perspective noun

art a method of showing distance in a picture by making far away objects smaller.

pointillism noun

art a style of art in which pictures are created using very small spots of colour.

pop art noun

art a style of modern art that began in the 1960s and used familiar images such as advertisements as its subjects.

postmodernism noun

art, literature ideas, attitudes, or styles of art, literature, or thinking that have developed after modernism , often as a reaction against it.

psychedelia noun

music, art, or writing that is based on the experiences that people have when they are taking psychedelic drugs.

realism noun

art, literature a style in art and literature that shows life as it really is.

romanticism noun

art, literature a style of literature, art, and music common at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries that emphasized the importance of personal feelings and of nature.

still life noun

art a type of art that represents objects rather than people, animals, or the countryside.

style noun

the way that someone writes or produces music or art.

surrealism noun

art, literature a 20th-century style of art and literature that tried to represent dreams and unconscious experience using unusual combinations of images.

tempera noun

art a method of painting in which colour is mixed with egg or another thick liquid.

cubism noun

       a French school of painting, collage, relief, and sculpture initiated in 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which amalgamated viewpoints of natural forms into a multifaceted surface of geometrical planes.

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