Showing 19 art terms

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Rayograph

Photographic prints made by laying objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light

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Rayonism

An early form of abstract art characterised by interacting linear forms derived from rays of light

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Readymade

The term readymade was first used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from …

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Realism

In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life …

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Réalités nouvelles

The Salon des Réalités nouvelles (new realities) was an exhibiting society devoted to pure abstract art founded in Paris in …

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Rebel Art Centre

The Rebel Art Centre was founded by Wyndham Lewis in London in March 1914 as a meeting place for artists …

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Relational aesthetics

Term created by curator Nicolas Bourriaud in the 1990s to describe the tendency to make art based on, or inspired …

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Relief

A relief is a wall-mounted sculpture in which the three-dimensional elements are raised from a flat base

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Renaissance

French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy …

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Replica

A copy of a work of art that is virtually indistinguishable from the original

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Reportage painting

Reportage painting was a Japanese post-war art movement that emerged in the early 1950s in opposition to the presence of …

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Representational

Blanket term for art that represents some aspect of reality, in a more or less straightforward way

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Resin

A usually transparent solid or semi-solid substance sometimes used as a medium by sculptors

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Resistance art

A form of art that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1970s after the Soweto uprising that focused on resisting …

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Return to order

A European art movement that came about following the First World War and characterized by a return to more traditional …

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Rococo

Light, sensuous, intensely decorative French style developed in the early eighteenth century following death of Louis XIV and in reaction …

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Romanticism

Term in use by the early nineteenth century to describe the movement in art and literature distinguished by a new …

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Rural naturalism

Nineteenth century painting movement characterized by scenes of rural life painted in a realist, often sentimentalised, manner

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Ruralists

Group of British artists founded in 1975 who aimed to revive the painting of figure subjects in idyllic rural settings