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Styles and Movements

"Bad Painting" '85 New Wave 19th Century American Art 19th Century American Paintings and Works on Paper 19th Century French Academy 19th Century German Realism 20th Century Art Abstract Art Abstract Expressionism Abstract Painting Abstract Photography Abstract Sculpture Abstract versus Figurative Art Abstraction-Création Action Painting Afrofuturism American Impressionism American Modernism American Prints 1880–1950 American Realism American Regionalism American Sculpture 1830–1950 American Tonalism American Works on Paper 1880–1950 Art Brut Art Deco Art Informel Art Nouveau Arte Povera Ashcan School Barbizon School Baroque Bauhaus Bay Area Figurative Art Beijing East Village Bengal School of Art Black Arts Movement Black Mountain College Body Art CalArts Capitalist Realism Chicago Imagists Chicano Art Cluj School CoBrA Colab Collaborations and Collectives Color Field Painting Conceptual Art Conceptual Art and Contemporary Conceptualism Concrete Art Constructivism Contemporary Academic Realism Contemporary Archaeological Contemporary Art Contemporary Asian Art Contemporary British Art Contemporary Canadian Art Contemporary Color Fields Contemporary Conceptualism Contemporary DIY Contemporary Fact versus Fiction Contemporary Fauvist Contemporary Faux Naïf Contemporary Feminist Contemporary Figurative Drawing Contemporary Figurative Painting Contemporary Gestural Abstraction Contemporary Glass Contemporary Gothic Contemporary Graphic Realism Contemporary Grotesque Contemporary Impressionist Contemporary Indian Art Contemporary Latin American Art Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Art Contemporary Minimalist Contemporary Modernist-Type Photography Contemporary Op Art Contemporary Participation Contemporary Portrait Painting Contemporary Re-creations Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography Contemporary Scandinavian Art Contemporary Surrealistic Contemporary Traces of Memory Contemporary Turkish Art Contemporary Use of Textiles Contemporary Vintage Photography Cubism Cynical Realism Dada Dansaekhwa Danube School Dau Al Set De Stijl Deconstructivism Deutscher Werkbund Die Brücke Documentary Film Documentary Travel Photography Dusseldorf School of Photography Dutch and Flemish Early Computer Art Early Renaissance East Village Art Expressionism Fashion Photography Fauvism Faux Naïf Feminist Art Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist Figurative Art Figurative Painting Figurative Sculpture Fluxus Folk Art Funk Art Futurism Geometric Abstraction German Expressionism Gestural Abstraction Gothic Art Graffiti and Street Art Grand Manner Group Material Group Zero Group f/64 Gutai Happenings Harlem Renaissance Helsinki School of Photography High Renaissance Hudson River School Hyperrealism and Photorealism Iconic Works of Art History Identity Politics Impressionism Impressionism and Contemporary Impressionist Japanese Erotic Prints Japanese Photography Japonisme Kanō School Land Art Landscape Photography Light and Space Movement Luminism Mannerism Medieval Art Mexican Muralism Minimalism Minimalism and Contemporary Minimalist Modern Jewelry Modern Photography Modern and Impressionist Art Modern and Impressionist Prints Mono-ha Nabis Neo-Conceptualism Neo-Concrete Art Neo-Dada Neo-Expressionism Neo-Geo Neo-Impressionism Neo-Plasticism Neoclassicism Net Art Neue Sachlichkeit New American Color Photography New American Documentary Photography New British Sculpture New Leipzig School New Topographics New York School Nineteenth Century French Realism Northern Renaissance Nouveau Réalisme Nul Group Old Master Drawings and Prints Old Master Influenced Fantasy Old Masters Op Art Orientalism Orphism Pattern and Decoration Movement Pictorialism Pittura Metafisica Pointillism Political Minimalism Political Pop Pop Art Pop and Contemporary Pop Post-'70s Ego Generation Post-Impressionism Post-Internet Art Post-Painterly Abstraction Post-War American Art Post-War European Art Post-World War I European Classicism Post-World War II School of Paris Postminimalism Pre-Raphaelites Pre-World War II School of Paris Precisionism Process Art Progressive Artists' Movement Purism Relational Aesthetics Renaissance Art Rinpa School Rococo Art and Design Romanticism School of London Self-Taught, Folk, and Outsider Art Shin Hanga Social Action Social Realism Socialist Realism Soviet Nonconformist Art Spatialism Spiral Group Street Photography Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program Suprematism Surrealism Surrealistic Symbolism Synchromism The Aesthetic Movement The Anthropocene The Blue Rider The New Fauves The Pictures Generation The Stars Art Group (Xing Xing) Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Transavanguardia Ukiyo-e Venetian School Vienna Secession Viennese Actionism Washington Color School Works Progress Administration (WPA) Yale University School of Art Young British Artists (YBAs) Zaire School of Popular Painting

Design Movements

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Visual Qualities

Abstract Illusionism Allover Composition Angular Arabesque/Scroll Asymmetrical Balance Biomorphic Black and White Blown-Off-Roof Perspective Blurred Bright and Vivid Colors Bulbous Calligraphic Color Gradient Columns and Totems Contour Line Cracked Creased Crinkled Wrinkled Crystalline and Geological Forms Curvilinear Forms Dark Colors Dense Composition Divisionist Dotted Dynamism Earth Tones Emphasis on Linear Perspective Extreme Angle Flatness Fractal-like / Kaleidoscopic Fragmented Geometry Geometric Glittery Grid Hard-Edged Highly Detailed Highly Ornamented Iridescence/Opalescence Irregular Curvilinear Forms Irregular Linear Forms Layered Images Linear Forms Marbleized Metallic Mimicking Ruined Materials Mirrored Molecular Mr Doodle: Pop Heart Collection Pastel Colors Patinated and Oxidized Patterns Piles/Stacks Pixelated Primary Abstraction Primary Colors Psychedelic Radiating Lines Raw versus Finished Rough Scattered Composition Sharp/Prickly Shiny/Glossy Single Object Slender Slumped/Draped Smooth Surface Sparse Stained Glass Effect Striped Symmetrical Tangled Forms Transparent/Translucent Medium Viscous Forms Woven/Perforated Wrapped

Medium and Techniques

Camera Obscura Album, Folio and Fan Formats Altarpiece Altered and Substituted Canvases Analogue Filmmaking Animation Appropriation Arabic/Farsi Calligraphy Archaeological Object Art That Plays With Scale Artist's Frame Artists’ Books Automatism Bentwood Black-and-White Photography Body Casts/Body Prints Books and Portfolios Burned/Charred Caravaggesque Carving Chance Chiaroscuro Cinematic Close-Up Collage Collecting and Modes of Display Color Photography Color Theory Comic/Cartoon Computer-Aided Manufacturing Copies and Emulations Cut/Ripped Dance Delicate Materials Densely Textured or Haptic Surface Design/Architecture Study Digital Art Digital Painting and Drawing Digital Print Digital as Manual Digitally Manipulated Divinatory Objects, Talismans, and Amulets Documentary Photography Drawing East Asian Calligraphy East Asian Ink-and-Wash Painting Embossed Paper En plein air Encaustic Endurance Art Ephemera Erased and Obscured Etching/Engraving Extruded Design Film/Video Focus on Materials Folded Planes Found Footage and Found Video Fresco Frontal Perspective Generative Art Gestural Glass and Ceramics Glitch Aesthetic Gold Leaf and Gilding Handscroll Hanging Scroll Hatching History Painting Hyperrealism Illustration Imitated Material Immersive Impasto Installation Art Intaglio Intentionally Exposed Canvas Interactive Intricately Sculpted Kinetic Sculpture Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Large-Scale Painting Large-Scale Photography Large-Scale Sculpture Light Art Lightbox Lithograph Long Distance and Deep Distance Long Exposure Mail Art Manipulated Photography Manuscript Maquette Mediated View Miniature and Small-Scale Paintings Mixed-Media Monochrome Painting Monotype/Monoprint Multiple Exposure Multiple Screens Multiple Styles Murals and Wall Drawings NFT Negative Image Oil Painting Oil on Copper Oil on Panel Open Form Organic Material Outdoor Art Painting Painting and Writing Tools Panorama Paper Cut-Outs Passage Pastel Performance Art Photogram Photograph as Material Photographic Source Photographs of Surfaces Photography Photojournalism Photomontage Photorealistic Picassoesque Polychrome Sculpture Poster Poured Printed Matter Prints Process-Oriented Projection Pulled, Scraped, and Scratched Recycled Reduced-Scale Architecture Relief Rembrandtesque Repetition Research as Art Restored and Repurposed Screen Format Sculptural Use of Paint Sculpture Sculpture-Based Photography Sfumato Shallow Depth of Field Silkscreen Site-Specific Art Snapshot Aesthetic Soft Sculpture Sound Art Splattered/Dripped Spray Paint Staged Photography Stains/Washes Study Suspended/Hanging Tempera Time-Lapse Photography and Film Tondo Topographic Photography Traditional Photographic Techniques Traditional Scroll Painting Transfer Trompe l’oeil Typography Typologies Use of Traditional Techniques Vintage Photo Prints Virtual and Augmented Reality Wall Sculpture and Installation Watercolor Website Woodcut and Linocut Work on Paper

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Materials

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Design Concepts and Techniques

CAD (Computer Aided Design) Children's Furniture and Design Design by Architects Design by Artists Engineering/Construction and Design Focus on Joints/Connections Handcrafted Furniture and Design Iconic Works of Design Industrial and Product Design Jewelry by Painters and Sculptors Masonry Construction Modular Design Non-Functional Design Reinforced Concrete Construction Religious Building Restrained Forms Steel/Iron Frame Construction Sustainable Design Timber Frame Construction Whimsical Design Women Designers

Cultural and Religious Styles

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Furniture and Lighting

Armchair Bed Bench Ceiling Light Chair Chaise Lounge Chandelier Coffee Table Console Desk Dining Table Floor Lamp Furniture Lighting Mirror Sconce Seating Shelving Side Chair Side Table Sideboard Sofa Stool Storage Table Table Lamp Upholstered Furniture

Textiles

Embroidery Knitted and Crocheted Rug Tapestry and Wall Hanging Textile Arts Use of Fabric

Jewelry and Fashion Object Types

Bracelets Brooches Costume Accessory Earrings Necklaces Rings Watches

Tableware, Vessels, and Objects

Artist Merchandise and Multiples Autograph Blanket Bowl Clock Container Door Exhibition Poster Figurine Flatware Frame Glass Objects Household Objects Keychain Letter Objets de Vertu Plate Postcard Skateboard Tableware Tool Towel Toy Tray Vase Vessel Wallpaper

Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects

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Hanger in de vorm van een tak blauwe regen

Dragon and Tiger

Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums

Hinds House Window

Hunting and fishing scenes

A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man

Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées]

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Water Lilies (Agapanthus)

Reukflacon

Headdress

Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Conical coffee pot with flowering lotus

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest — Number 4 Youth

Quilt

Morning Glories and Tree-frog, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Twee fragmenten textiel

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Fragment of a doorpost

A pale-skinned woman wearing a long, rose-pink gown sits amid a lush landscape in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled to our left, but she turns her head to look at us with green eyes under dark brows. She has a long, straight nose, smooth, flushed cheeks, and her carnation-pink lips are closed. Her long, curly, ash-brown hair is loosely pulled back in an emerald-green ribbon, but tendrils floating around her face seem to lift as in a breeze. A ponytail or thick tendril drapes over her far shoulder, almost reaching her waist. The low neckline of her gown is wrapped with translucent, gold cloth, and the elbow-length sleeves are gauzy white. The gown has a pale pink bodice and long, full skirt. Ribbons the same green as the one in her hair wrap around her waist and around the elbow we can see. She crosses her ankles so delicate, high-heeled, charcoal-gray slippers peek out from the bottom hem of her skirt. She sits on a gray boulder, her hands folded in her lap as she holds the ends of her translucent scarf. A tall tree grows along the right edge of the composition to arc up and over with olive-green and harvest-gold leaves. Beyond the woman, the land dips down to our left back into a tree-filled valley. Swipes of slate blue in the distance could be mountains. A short distance from us, to our left, one tree with a narrow, pale green canopy grows up against the sky. Behind that tree, yellow sunlight breaks through light blue, lavender-purple, and silver clouds that fill the rest of the sky. Parts of the scene are loosely painted with swirling, fluttering strokes, especially in the woman’s costume and the trees around her.

Jar with wooden cover and two large flower groups

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Chrysanthemum and Horsefly, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Waistcoat

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Satyress and Child

Fragment textiel

A young woman with pale skin and flushed cheeks stands in a landscape looking to our upper left in this round-topped vertical painting. Her body faces us in the center of the scene. Her fingers are interlaced at her waist, and her head tips slightly to our left. Honey-brown hair cascades over her shoulders, and her hazel eyes roll up under thin brows. She has a short nose and a small, pale pink mouth. A translucent scarf is tied around the full-length, pine-green mantle that drapes across her shoulders and wraps around the V-neck of her rose-red robe. A wine-red inset fills the neckline, and a matching belt is tied around her waist. She stands barefoot on the dirt ground, which is scattered with pebbles. Plants grow and bloom, including a blue iris, in shallow water along the bottom edge of the composition. A lidded pitcher with a narrow neck and scrolling handles sits on a flat rock next to her right knee. Taller, peanut-brown rock formations pile up beyond her under a powder-blue sky. Tawny-brown and sage-green trees, leafy plants, and shrubs sprout among the rocks. Beyond the woman is an open gate in a wooden fence built into one of the rock formations to our right, and sage-green hills dotted with moss-green trees roll out along the left side of the painting.

Poppies, from an untitled series of flowers

A woman and winged angel, both with pale, peach skin, are situated in a church interior in this tall, narrow painting. To our left, the angel has long, blond, curly hair, smooth skin, and is smiling. The wings are outlined in royal blue, and they blend from blue to green to yellow to crimson. The angel holds one hand, closer to us, up at chest height with the index finger subtly pointing upward. Holding a long scepter in the other hand, the angel angles their body toward the woman to our right. The angel wears a gold jewel and pearl-encrusted crown and a jeweled long, voluminous robe in scarlet-red and shimmering gold brocade. The neck and along the opening down the front are lined with pearls and jewels. The angel looks toward the woman, who wears a royal-blue dress tied with a red belt at the high waist. Her long brown hair is tied back but one tendril falls over her left shoulder, to our right. She kneels facing us with her raised hands facing outward. Her head is tipped a bit to our left, and she looks up and into the distance to our right with lips slightly parted. She kneels behind a book lying open on a low table. A vase of white lilies and a red cushion lies on the floor in front of the table, close to us. The floor is decorated with people and scenes outlined in black and set into square panels, as if inlaid with wood. The church behind and above the people has a row of tall, narrow arches with bull’s-eye glass windows. A walkway lined with columns runs above the arches, and sunlight comes in through arched windows under the flat wood ceiling. A white dove flies toward the woman on gold lines from a window at the upper left of the painting. Latin words painted in gold capital letters are exchanged between the people. The angel says, “AVE GRA PLENA.” The letters of the woman’s response are painted upside down and backward: “ECCE ANCILLA DNI.”

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)

Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Fragment textiel

Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest — Number 1 Childhood

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Green Tara

Sideboard

Pink and Rose

Lilies, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

Set of Four Armchairs and Settee

Ovoid covered jar with flower scrolls in lappet borders

A woman with pale skin, wearing a silvery-gray dress adorned with white ribbons and light pink roses, stands looking out at us with a small, pug dog by her feet in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled slightly to our right but she looks at us with dark eyes under faint, arched brows. Her nose is rounded, her cheeks smooth and flushed, and her pale pink lips are closed. Her face is framed in a cloud of nickel-gray hair, and tendrils curl down over her shoulders. She wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with a white ribbon set on the back of her head and slightly off to one side. The bodice of her dress has a low, curving neck. This area is loosely painted to create the impression of layers of lace. A band of intertwined pale pink roses and delicate green leaves borders the outer edge of the lace. The dress has long, tight sleeves with lace at the cuffs and the notably narrow waist is tied with a blush-pink ribbon. The full, silver skirt is picked up to create a row of puffs, like the top of a muffin, around her knees. Bunches of pink roses and white ribbons are nestled into the puffs, and below, the skirt falls in long, vertical pleats to her ankles. She wears white stockings and pointed, petal-pink shoes. In her left arm, on our right, she holds a closed fan loosely at her side, almost lost behind the skirt. She holds a pink carnation with a full bloom and a bud on a long, curving stem in her other hand, by her hip. A caramel-brown pug with a black face, wearing a pink collar lined with three bells, stands facing us with one front paw lifted, to our right of the woman's feet. The landscape is painted in tones of mint and sage green for grass beneath trees enclosing the space the woman stands in, sand brown for the ground, and icy blue for the sky above.

Fire Screen

Corset

Bell-Flower and Dragonfly, from an untitled series of large flowers

Textile Fragment

Tree of Knowledge, No. 1

A man stands, leaning on a staff used like a crutch, in a deep, rocky landscape in this round-topped vertical painting. The cleanshaven man has tanned skin and sparse gray hair. He is nude aside from a slate-gray cloth that wraps around his hips. The hand not bracing the crutch is held in a loose fist at his chest. A few plants grow and bloom along the bottom of the panel. The dirt path on which the man stands winds through low, grass-covered mounds to a cave opening at the base of a tall, steep cliff face. A lion stands on the path between the man and the cave. An owl perches in the bare, spike-like branches of a spindly tree growing to our right of the man.

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Fragment textiel

Wine Cup with Children at Play

In front of a crumbling stone building, an older man kneels in front of a second man, smaller in scale, hanging from a tall, wooden cross, with a city in the background in this vertical painting. Both men have pale skin. At the lower center of the composition, the kneeling man, Saint Jerome, pulls his navy-blue robe to one side to expose his muscular but slender bare chest with a bloody mark at its center. With his other hand, he holds a rounded, gray stone touched with pink, also suggesting blood, by his side. He has long, silvery-gray hair and a long, pointed beard. His pink lips are parted, and we see his teeth. He raises gray eyes to look up at the man on the slender cross, which rises along the left edge of the composition. The man on the cross brown hair, a plate-like gold halo, and a white loincloth is draped across his hips. The shell-pink ground is littered with rocks. A red hat with a shallow brim and a tasseled chin cord sits near Saint Jerome’s sandaled feet. A miniature lion lies between Saint Jerome and the arched opening of the crumbling, terracotta-red structure along the right edge of the painting. Ivy grows up one side of the arch, and an hourglass and book with a red cover and gold-edged pages sit on a white cloth under the opening. An owl perches on a branch of an oak tree growing from the front face of the structure, and a hawk sits on a branch of the fruit tree growing from the stone courtyard, between Saint Jerome and the crucifix. A shrub with dark green leaves and clusters of three olive-green fruits fills in most of the space beneath the canopy of the fruit tree. To our right and in the distance, a man with a pointed black hat, a black jacket, and white pants rides away from us on a gray horse. To our left, the courtyard gives way to an amphitheater-like space. There, next to a donkey, a man with a long white beard hands a bundle of wood or planks to another man whose brown hair is cut into a ring encircling his head. Both men wear rose-pink garments over navy-blue togas. A town with white and pale pink stone buildings rises up a hill into the distance. The sky above deepens from honeydew green along the horizon to pale then peacock blue along the top edge of the composition. A few ice-blue, white, and light gray clouds float across the sky.

Palampore

Oribe-Type Ewer

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