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Showing 31–41 of 41 art terms

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Stuckism

Founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in 1999, Stuckism is an art movement that is anti-conceptual and champions figurative …

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Subjective photography

Subjective photography was an international movement founded in Germany by the photographer Otto Steinert in 1951 which championed photography that …

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Sublime

Theory developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as art that refers to …

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Supra-sensorial

Supra-sensorial is a term devised by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica to describe the experience of being in one of …

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Suprematism

Name given by the artist Kazimir Malevich to the abstract art he developed from 1913 characterised by basic geometric forms, …

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Surrealism

A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and …

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Symbolism

Late nineteenth-century movement that advocated the expression of an idea over the realistic description of the natural world

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Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia (or synesthesia) is a neurological condition in which the stimulation of a sense (like touch or hearing) leads involuntarily …

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Synthetic cubism

Synthetic cubism is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to run from about 1912 to 1914, characterised by simpler …

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Synthetism

Term associated with the style of symbolic representation adopted by Paul Gauguin and his followers in the 1880s characterised by …

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Systems art

Loosely describes a group of radical artists working in the late 1960s early 1970s who reacted against art’s traditional focus …

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