Art Glossary
Definitions of Art Forms, Mediums, and Movements
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Medium
Acrylic on canvas20
Acrylic on paper25
Acrylic paint7
Acrylic sculpture45
Airbrush
Aquagravure
Aquatint93
Archival Print72
Assemblage6
Body Print
Bronze48
C-Print52
Calligraphy
Carborundum7
Cement
Ceramic39
Chalk2
Charcoal3
Clay7
Collage78
Coloured pencil4
Computer printing
Conté
Crayon6
Cyanotype1
Digital Print on paper66
Digital print on canvas6
Drypoint28
Décollage
East Indian ink2
Embossing12
Engraving7
Etching531
Etching and Aquatint273
Found objects
Gelatin Silver Print49
Giclée printing81
Glass10
Gouache8
Graphite9
Ink14
Inkjet print66
Installation2
Intaglio8
Lambda print14
Laser print
Linocut35
Lithograph1460
Maquette1
Marble17
Marker26
Metal31
Metalcut1
Mezzotint
Mixed Media1011
Mobile
Monochrome
Monoprint12
Monotype27
Montage
Mosaic2
Multimedia1
Object28
Offset Print182
Oil on board1
Oil on canvas41
Oil on paper1
Papier-mâché
Pastel3
Pen and ink10
Pencil12
Photograph197
Photogravure14
Pigment print59
Plaster2
Plastic7
Plate23
Polaroid14
Porcelain20
Relief printing21
Resin25
Sand7
Screen-print752
Serigraph120
Silkscreen374
Stone1
Tapestry43
Tempera
Textile5
Video art4
Watercolor16
Wax
Wire
Wood27
Woodblock printing2
Woodcut75
Art Movement
Abstract art1428
Abstract expressionism646
Action painting104
Actionism33
Activist art625
Aesthetic movement
American Abstract Artists (AAA)206
Animation131
Anti-art32
Appropriation1369
Art Brut95
Art Fabrication480
Art Informel387
Art Intervention70
Art Nucleare102
Arte Povera177
Auto-destructive art2
Automatism395
Avant-garde382
Bauhaus22
Bay Area Figurative Art20
Behavior Art
Body Art158
Browser Art
Brutalism
Capitalist Realism47
Chinese Contemporary art128
CoBrA117
Colour Field Painting287
Comic Strip art828
Computer Art7
Conceptual art1253
Concrete art363
Constructivism171
Contemporary Art1874
Contemporary art from India39
Cracking Art Group18
Cubism289
Cynical Realism34
Dada240
Dansaekhwa1
Dau Al Set19
De Stijl
Digital Art284
Dusseldorf school of photography22
Earth Art141
East Village Art157
Eat Art
Entropy7
Environmental art159
Ephemeral Art15
Feminist art220
Figuration Libre150
Figurative art785
Fluxus48
Found Object1396
Funk Art
Futurism40
Generative Art62
Geometric Abstract art642
Gestural767
Graffiti Art429
Grupo Frente
Grupo Ruptura
Gutai
Happening216
Hard Edge art1147
Hyper modernism
Hyper-realism160
Interactive art77
Junk art16
Kinetic art510
Kitsch299
Land Art124
Late modernism1373
Latin American Art503
Lettrism853
Light and Space449
Live Art11
Lowbrow140
Lyrical Abstraction189
Mail art10
Manifesto Invencionista
Massurrealism
Matter painting124
Minimalism612
Modern Realism295
Mono-Ha3
Naive art311
Neo-Dada185
Neo-Geo62
Net Art
Neue Wilden41
New British Sculpture146
New Figuration508
New Generation Sculpture17
New Leipzig School1
New Media Art21
New Topographics47
Nouveau Realism330
Op Art504
Orphism13
Performance art577
Photorealism187
Pixel art17
Political pop22
Pop art2349
Postminimalism42
Postmodernism295
Process Art555
Queer aesthetics44
Readymade107
Réalités Nouvelles13
Shock Art349
Site Specific Art328
Situationism11
Sound Art44
Space Art20
Spatialism14
Street Art436
Stuckism
Superflat141
Surrealism897
Systems Art97
Tachisme245
Transavanguardia36
Uncanny216
Xiamen Dada
Young British Artists (YBAs)307
Zero Movement272
Country
Argentina250
Australia13
Austria32
Belgium189
Brazil63
Bulgaria72
Canada28
Chile47
China135
Colombia12
Cuba24
Czech Republic4
Denmark16
Ethiopia6
France347
Georgia20
Germany320
Ghana1
Greece7
Hungary75
India36
Ireland44
Israel49
Italy137
Japan242
Kenya1
Latvia3
Lebanon7
Mexico29
Netherlands81
Pakistan1
Peru7
Poland1
Portugal23
Puerto Rico3
Romania14
Saudi Arabia1
Serbia3
South Africa14
South Korea1
Spain732
Sweden8
Switzerland90
Ukraine50
United Kingdom860
United States2233
Uruguay4
Venezuela76
Varia
Artist Proof
Attribute
Authenticity
Biennial
Bricolage
Cast
Catalogue Raisonne
Composition
Conversation piece
Curator
Diptych
Edition
Emulation
Epreuve d’artist
Foundry
Light Object
Magnum Photos
Marouflage on canvas
Medium
Multiple
Original artwork
Patina
Perspective
Pigment
Portfolio
Print
Print Proof
Provenance
Recto / Verso
Replica
Triennial
Triptych
Watermark