The "part of the composition in the pictorial arts that appears to be farthest from the viewer." Source: Ralph Meyer, "A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques"

A post World War II art movement in the Middle East, the aim was to promote artwork that combined modernist and traditional creativity. The point of departure was "seeking inspiration from tradit [..]

Dutch artists working in Rome in the mid-17th century, they were followers of Pieter van Laer (1592-1642) and depicted anecdotal and low-life genre scenes of contemporary Italian life. Van Laer is cre [..]

A ribbon or long scroll, which is carved or painted. Source: Ralph Mayer, "A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques"

A group of French naturalist painters, their approach to painting, beginning in the 1830s, opened the door to Plein-Air Painting, Impressionism, and Social Realism. Barbizon School painters were based [..]

A theatrical style of painting and sculpture characterization, "often florid, exuberant, and emotional" with heavy ornamentation that came to be considered grotesque. (Britannica, 634) The s [..]

Sculpture in which figures project only slightly from a background, as on a coin, it is also known as low relief sculpture. Among Bas Relief American Sculptors are Marguerite Blasingame, Janet Scudder [..]

The imaginary line upon which all capital Letters and most lower-case letters rest. Source: Bob Bahr, "Drawing" magazine, Spring 2006, pp. 83

A technique of producing designs on fabric through a series of wax treatments and dyes, the process originated thousands of years ago, likely in China. The Javanese of Indonesia advanced the skill and [..]

A design school founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by Walter Gropius who said of the program: "The Bauhaus strives to combine all the arts---sculpture, painting, applied art and visual art---as t [..]