'Visual Art Genre' is a set of conventions and styles for pursuing an art form. It is more concerned with the subject of the artwork, rather than the artisist method or material used (which corresponds to the art form). For instance, a painting may be a still life, an abstract, a portrait, or...
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| x Still life |
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The Basket of Apples |
A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry,...
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| Still Life with Cheeses | |||
| Vase with Three Sunflowers | |||
| Still Life with Oranges | |||
| Still Life with a Bottle | |||
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| x Abstract art |
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The Scream |
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century,...
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| Baltimore Federal | |||
| Excavation | |||
| Sky Above Clouds IV | |||
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| x Portrait |
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Mona Lisa |
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason,...
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| Self Portrait with Black Vase | |||
| Self-portrait with a friend | |||
| Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers | |||
| Lansdowne portrait | |||
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| x Landscape art |
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Water Lilies |
Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other...
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| Impression, Sunrise | |||
| Le Parlement | |||
| Les Alyscamps | |||
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| x Christian art |
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Annunciation |
Christian art is sacred art produced in an attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form the principles of Christianity, though other definitions are possible. Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, although some...
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| The Last Supper | |||
| Pietà | |||
| The Last Judgment | |||
| The Virgin and Child with St. Anne | |||
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| x Genre painting |
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The Shrimp Girl |
Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes....
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| The Potato Eaters | |||
| A Lady Writing a Letter | |||
| Tuna Fishing | |||
| Four Times of the Day | |||
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| x History painting |
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David |
History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait. The term derives from the wider senses of the word historia in...
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| Oath of the Tennis Court | |||
| The Last Judgement | |||
| The Last Judgment | |||
| Madonna and Child with St. Anne | |||
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| x Visionary art |
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Madonna |
Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.
The American Visionary Art Museum defines Visionary art as "....art...
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| Landscape With The Fall of Icarus | |||
| I See the Rhythm of Gospel by Michele Wood | |||
| x Narrative art |
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Arts Canada Afloat |
Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures. However, without some...
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| Reading the Will | |||
| Josephine and the Fortune-Teller | |||
| The Defence of Saragossa | |||
| War, the Exile and the Rock Limpet | |||
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| x Marine art |
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Rowing Home |
Marine art or maritime art is any form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre...
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| The Gulf Stream | |||
| The Herring Net | |||
| Watson and the Shark | |||
| Side View, Great Eastern | |||
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| x Monument |
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Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment |
A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of...
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| Sherman Monument | |||
| Minsk Monument to Hero Cities | |||
| The Motherland Calls | |||
| Princeton Battle Monument | |||
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| x Kinetic art |
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Red Polygons |
Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.
Kinetic...
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| x Religious image |
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Annunciation |
A religious image is a work of visual art that is representational and has a religious purpose, subject or connection. All major historical religions have made some use of religious images, although their use is strictly controlled and often...
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| St. Sebastian | |||
| The Adoration of the Magi | |||
| St. Sebastian | |||
| St. Sebastian | |||
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| x Fantastic art |
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Winged Figure |
Fantastic art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art have been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the 19th century. There was a movement of science fiction and fantasy artists prior to and during the...
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| Angel | |||
| The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke | |||
| Contradiction: Oberon and Titania | |||
| Come unto These Yellow Sands | |||
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| x Allegory |
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Zauber |
Allegory is a device used to present an idea, principle or meaning, which can be presented in literary form, such as a poem or novel, in musical form, such as composition or lyric, or in visual form, such as in painting or drawing. It is also seen...
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| Zauber Tondos | |||
| The Book of Lovers | |||
| The Lovers | |||
| Lovers | |||
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| x Decorative art |
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Sard Ewer |
The decorative arts is traditionally a term for the design and manufacture of functional objects. It includes interior design, but not usually architecture. The decorative arts are often categorized in opposition to the "fine arts", namely, painting...
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| Table | |||
| Tapestry of The Life of Louis XIV | |||
| Wardrobe | |||
| Carpet bearing the arms of France | |||
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| x Portrait painting |
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The Beautiful Nani |
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even inanimate objects can be chosen as the subject for a portrait. In addition to portrait painting...
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| Il Condottiero | |||
| Abraham Lincoln | |||
| L.H.O.O.Q. | |||
| Portrait of Daniele Barbaro | |||
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| x Figure study |
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Female Nude |
A figure study is a painting, drawing, sculpture or photograph made for study purposes with a live model as the subject matter. The live model can be clothed, partly clothed or nude and the art work is a representation of the full body of the model,...
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| Woman in Tub | |||
| Palace Performer | |||
| x Community art | I See the Rhythm of Gospel by Michele Wood |
Community Art could be loosely defined as a way of creating art in which professional artists collaborate more or less intensively with people who don't normally actively engage in the arts. Community arts, also sometimes known as "dialogical art", ...
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| x Animal Painting | The Floating Feather | ||
| Peacocks | |||
| Les Dindons | |||
| The Deer Hunt | |||
| The Tower of Blue Horses | |||
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| x Southern art |
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Southern art is a broad term that applies to art of, about, and from the American South. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans houses the largest single collection of Southern art. In 1992, the Morris Museum of Art opened in Augusta,...
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| x Self-portrait | The Cellist, Self-Portrait |
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 15th century that...
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| Self-Portrait with Hat | |||
| Self Portrait with a Sunflower | |||
| Self-Portrait as Paris | |||
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| x Chocolate box art |
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Chocolate box art originally referred literally to decorations on chocolate boxes. Over the years the terminology has developed and is now applied broadly as a descriptive, but often pejorative, term to describe paintings and designs that are warm,...
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| x Eclecticism in art |
Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them" (Hume 1998, 5). Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized...
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| x Protest art |
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Protest art is a broad term that refers to creative works that concern or are produced by activists and social movements. There are also contemporary and historical works and currents of thought that can be characterized in this way.
Social...
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| x Fine art photography |
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More Demi Moore |
Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism, which provides a visual account for news events, and...
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| x Pastoral |
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The adjective pastoral refers to the lifestyle of pastoralists, such as shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. It also refers to a genre in literature, art or...
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| x Problem picture |
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A problem picture is a genre of art popular in the late Victorian era, characterised by a deliberately ambiguous narrative that can be interpreted in several different ways, or which portrays an unresolved dilemma. It is the pictorial equivalent of...
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| x Immersion |
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Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment; often artificial. This mental state is frequently accompanied with spatial excess,...
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| x Textile arts |
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Textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.
Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization, and the methods and materials...
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| x Zoomorphism |
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Zoomorphism is the shaping of something in animal form or terms. Examples include:
The word derives from the Greek ζωον (zōon), meaning animal, and μορφη (morphē), meaning shape or form.
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| x Astronomical art |
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Astronomical art is the aspect of Space art devoted to visualizing the wonders of outer space. A major emphasis of such art is the space environment as a new frontier for Humanity. Many other works portray alien worlds, extremes of matter such as...
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| x Folk art |
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Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic. Folk Art is characterized by a naive...
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| x Graffiti |
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Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings,...
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| x Body painting |
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Body painting, or sometimes bodypainting, is a form of body art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most (in the case of Mehndi or "henna tattoo...
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| x Figure drawing |
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In art, a figure drawing is a study of the human form in its various shapes and body postures - sitting, standing or even sleeping. It is a study or stylized depiction of the human form, with the line and form of the human figure as the primary...
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| x Azulejo |
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Anunciação |
Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈleʒu], Spanish: [aθuˈlexo]) from the Arabic word Zellige زليج is a form of Portuguese or Spanish painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tilework. It has become a typical aspect of Portuguese culture, having been produced without...
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| x Cloudscape |
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In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds or the sky. Usually, as in the examples seen here, the clouds are depicted as viewed from the earth, often including just enough of a landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather...
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| x Vanitas |
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In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. The Latin word...
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| x Generative art |
Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an artwork that would otherwise...
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| x Sustainable art |
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The expression sustainable art has been promoted recently as an art term that can be distinguished from environmental art that is in harmony with the key principles of sustainability, which include ecology, social justice, non-violence and...
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| x Radio art |
Radio art refers to the use of radio for art. "Radio Art implies that the artist who works in, and with, radio is not necessarily a trained DJ, programmer, producer, engineer, or personality, but one who uses sound to make art and seeks ways to...
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| x Algorithmic art |
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Algorithmic art, also known as algorithm art, is art, mostly visual art, of which the design is generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called algorists.
Algorithmic art is a subset of generative art, and is practically always...
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| x Child art |
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Child art is the drawings, paintings and other artistic works created by children. It is also referred to as "children's art" or the "art of children".
The term 'child art' also has a parallel and different usage in the world of contemporary fine...
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| x BioArt |
BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning) the...
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| x Santo |
Santo (from the Spanish word meaning "saint") is a traditional New Mexican genre of religious sculpture. The word "santo" is also used to refer to individual works in this genre. Santos are carvings, either in wood or ivory, that depict saints,...
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| x Singerie |
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Singerie is the French word for "Monkey Trick". It is a genre depicting monkeys apeing human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, always with a gentle cast of mild satire. "Pre-Darwinian theories were made visible over...
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| x Inscape |
Inscape, in visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within the visual arts. Though the term inscape has been applied to stylistically diverse artworks, it...
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| x Outsider Art |
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The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of...
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| x Visionary environments |
Visionary environments ("fantasy worlds") are extensive/large-scale artistic installations (buildings, sculpture parks, etc.) intended to capture intense subjective/personal experiences (dreams, fantasies, obsessions, etc.) of their creators. The...
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| x Kitsch |
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Kitsch (English pronunciation: /ˈkɪtʃ/, loanword from German) is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. The concept is associated with the...
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| x Information art |
Information art (also 'data art' or 'informatism' ) is an emerging field of electronic art that synthesizes computer science, information technology, and more classical forms of art, including performance art, visual art, new media art and...
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| x Yarn bombing |
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Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.
While yarn...
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| x Fetish art |
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Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as bondage, BDSM, transvestism, domination/submission scenarios etc. -- sometimes in combination.
Many of the 'classic' 1940s, '50s and '60s era fetish artists such as Eric Stanton...
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| x Contour rivalry |
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Contour rivalry is an artistic technique used to create multiple possible visual interpretations of an image. An image may be viewed as depicting one thing when viewed in a certain way; but if the image is flipped or turned, the same lines that...
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| x Grotesque |
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The word grotesque comes from the same Latin root as "Grotto", meaning a small cave or hollow. The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th...
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| x Personal imaging |
Personal imaging is the continuous realtime capturing, archiving, recording, and sharing of personal experience through images. Typically the images are accompanied by other media such as audiovisual streams, or with textual narratives such as...
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| x Street art |
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Street art is art, specifically visual art, developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti...
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| x Comics |
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A comic (from the Greek κωμικός, kōmikos "of or pertaining to comedy" from κῶμος, kōmos "revel, komos", via the Latin cōmicus), denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative...
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| x Site-specific art |
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Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. The actual term was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin, but it was...
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