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In this page, we will explain one by one about the words that are often used in art scene which are not familiar in everyday life.
Words | Category | Definition |
Style | - | There are many terms for different styles in the history of art, and these descriptors can create instant impressions.
The specific artistic character and dominant form trends noted in art movements. It may also mean artist’s expressive use of media to give an individual character to one’s work. |
Medium | - | The materials and tools used by the artist to create a work of art. |
Technique | - | The manner and skill in which the artist uses tools and materials to achieve an expressive effect. |
Motif | - | A visual element or a combination of visual elements that is repeated often enough in a composition to make it the dominating feature of the artist’s expression. It is similar to theme or melody in a musical composition. |
Material | - | An element or substance out of which something can be made or composed. |
Fine art | - | Fine art, also referred to as “high art,” has long been held up as the highest standard of artistic expression. Fine artists make work that is purely created to be aesthetically pleasing. The aesthetic purpose distinguishes the fine arts from the “low arts” which are traditionally designed for more practical purposes. |
Pop art | Style | A movement comprising initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Pop artists borrowed imagery from popular culture—from sources including television, comic books, and print advertising—often to challenge conventional values propagated by the mass media, from notions of femininity and domesticity to consumerism and patriotism. Their often subversive and irreverent strategies of appropriation extended to their materials and methods of production, which were drawn from the commercial world. |
Street art | Style | Street art is a form of artwork that is displayed in public on surrounding buildings, streets, trains and other publicly viewed surfaces. Many instances come in the form of Guerrilla Art, which is intended to make a personal statement about the society that the artist lives within. |
Minimalism | Style | A primarily American artistic movement of the 1960s, characterized by simple geometric forms devoid of representational content. Relying on industrial technologies and rational processes, Minimalist artists challenged traditional notions of craftsmanship, using commercial materials such as fiberglass and aluminum, and often employing mathematical systems to determine the composition of their works. |
Modernism | Style | The terms modernism and modern art are generally used to describe the succession of art movements that critics and historians have identified since the realism of Gustav Courbet and culminating in abstract art and its developments in the 1960s. |
Psychedelic art | Style | In common parlance "psychedelic art" refers above all to the art movement of the late 1960s counterculture, featuring highly distorted or surreal visuals, bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke, convey, or enhance psychedelic experiences. |
Surrealism | Style | An artistic and literary movement led by French poet André Breton from 1924 through World War II. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists sought to overthrow what they perceived as the oppressive rationalism of modern society by accessing the surrealism (superior reality) of the subconscious. In his 1924 “Surrealist Manifesto,” Breton argued for an uninhibited mode of expression derived from the mind’s involuntary mechanisms, particularly dreams, and called on artists to explore the uncharted depths of the imagination with radical new methods and visual forms. These ranged from abstract “automatic” drawings to hyper-realistic painted scenes inspired by dreams and nightmares to uncanny combinations of materials and objects. |
Informe | Style | Art informe is a French term describing a swathe of approaches to abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s which had in common an improvisatory methodology and highly gestural technique |
Ethnic | Style | The term ethnic is used in a broad sense to include art works of non- western communities. Ethnic art may refer to the art of indigenous people making use of traditional methods and aesthetics. The purpose of ethnic art may usually be functional or ritual. |
Feminist art | Style | Art seeking to challenge the dominance of men in both art and society, to gain recognition and equality for women artists, and to question assumptions about womanhood. Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists used a variety of mediums—including painting, performance art, and crafts historically considered “women’s work”—to make work aimed at ending sexism and oppression and exposing femininity to be a masquerade or set of poses adopted by women to conform to societal expectations. While many of the debates inaugurated in these decades are still ongoing, a younger generation of feminist artists takes an approach incorporating intersecting concerns about race, class, forms of privilege, and gender identity and fluidity. Both feminism and feminist art continue to evolve. |
Internet | Style | Internet art is a kind of art that uses the Internet as its mode of dissemination. The art is often interactive and/or participatory in nature and may use a number of different mediums. This method strays from the traditional gallery and museum system and gives even small artists a way of sharing their work with a large audience. Artists who do this kind of art are usually called net artists.
Internet art is also known as Net art. |
Kitsch | Style | Kitsch art is thought to be mass-produced art that has no value other than aesthetic appeal. The growth of consumer culture in Europe and the United States in the 1950s and 1960 sparked an artistic curiosity in pop culture, often with the goal of bridging the gap between presumably fine art and public appeal; but nowhere is this more evident than with the emergence of Pop Art in the United States. Today, the notion that something may be so awful that it's good is so popular that the name kitsch no longer has the negative connotations it once did, and artists frequently make works that celebrate bad style and challenge the high-and low-brow divide in art. |
Metaphysical | Style | Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature. Metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that studies that fundamental nature of being and knowing. |
Micro Pop | Style | Coined by art critic Midori Matsui, it is defined as “small-scale (micro) and avant-garde (pop)”, and is best characterized by the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. |
Orientalism | Style | The representation of the East in Western art which often blurred the line between fantasy and reality. The Orientalist art movement reached its height during the 19th century and is perhaps best known today for its production of impressive oil paintings and works on paper. |
Collage | Technique | A similar technique to papier colle but using a great variety of materials having tactile quality, not just paper alone. |
Tempera | Technique | A painting medium in which colored pigment is mixed with a water-soluble binder, such as egg yolk; a painting done in this medium. |
Print | Technique | A work of art on paper that usually exists in multiple copies. It is created not by drawing directly on paper, but through a transfer process. The artist begins by creating a composition on another surface, such as metal or wood, and the transfer occurs when that surface is inked and a sheet of paper, placed in contact with it, is run through a printing press. Four common printmaking techniques are woodcut, etching, lithography, and screen print. |
Mixed media | Material | An artwork in which more than one medium or material has been incorporated is described as mixed media. Assemblage and collage are popular mixed media art forms. |
Gouache | Material | A water-based matte paint, sometimes called opaque watercolor, composed of ground pigments and plant-based binders, such as gum Arabic or gum tragacanth. The opacity of gouache derives from the addition of white fillers, such as clay or chalk, or a higher ratio of pigment to binder. |
Iwa-enogu | Material | Iwa-enogu is Japanese paint made from particles of pulverized rock, mainly minerals. The particles have a similar coarseness to sand and feature a lusterless matt feeling. The paint itself has no adhesive properties, but by adding glue, it sticks to the medium surface. |
Pigment | Material | A substance, usually finely powdered, that produces the color of any medium. When mixed with oil, water, or another fluid, it becomes paint. |
Drawing | Medium | In fine art, drawing refers to “the linear realization of visual objects, concepts, emotions, and fantasies, including symbols and even abstract forms.” It is a graphic art, characterized by the central use of form or shape, lines, and sometimes patterns. |
Multiple/ Digital | Medium | Multiple refers to a series of identical artworks, usually a signed limited edition made specifically for selling. |
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