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A 20th century style of painting in which nonrepresentational lines, colors, shapes, and forms replace accurate visual depiction of objects, landscape, and figures. The subject is often stylized, blurred, repeated or broken down into basic forms so that it becomes unrecognizable. Intangible subjects such as thoughts, emotions, and time are often ex [..]

synthetic painting colors made by distributing pigments in a vehicle made of a polymethyl methacrylate solution in mineral spirits. Often called plastic paints to distinguish them from polymer colors that also contain acrylic. First used in the 1940's, they are valued for their versatility. Aquarelle

popular in the U.S. and Europe in the 1920's and 1930's, a style of design and decoration with designs that are geometric and use highly intense colors, to reflect the rise of commerce, industry and mass production. Art Movements and Classification

French for "new art". A painting, printmaking, decorative design, and architectural style developed in England in the 1880s. Art Nouveau, primarily an ornamental style, was not only a protest against the sterile Realism, but against the whole drift toward industrialization and mechanization and the unnatural artifacts they produce [..]

The characteristic way each artist brushes paint onto a medium, such as canvas. Canvas

typically referring to what are considered characteristics of classical art that include simplicity, harmony, proportional representation and emotional restraint Constructivism

The term contemporary art encompasses all art being done now. It tends to include any art made from around the 1960s to the present, or after the end of the modern art period. The use of the literal adjective "contemporary" to define this period in art history is due to the lack of any recognized or dominant form or genre of art a [..]

An art style founded by Hans Arp in Zurich after WW1, which challenged the established canons of art, thoughts and morality etc. Disgusted with the war and society in general, Dadaist expressed their feelings by creating "non-art." The term Dada, nonsense or baby talk term, symbolizes the loss of meaning in the European culture. D [..]

an art method of borrowing and combining styles from multiple art movements, schools, styles or other artists into one work of art. Expressionism