Abstract Art
Abstract Art moves away from realistic representation and instead uses colour, shape, line and form...
Armour
Armour refers to protective clothing worn in combat. Beyond its practical function, armour often reflected...
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was an American photographer known for his striking portraits and fashion photography....
Auteur Theory
Auteur Theory argues that a film's director is the primary creative force behind a movie,...
Baroque Art
Baroque Art is a highly dramatic style that emerged in Europe during the seventeenth century....
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is a technique that uses strong contrasts between light and dark to create depth,...
Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art refers to art being made today or in the recent past. Rather than...
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art prioritises ideas over traditional artistic skill or appearance. The concept behind the work...
Colour Field Painting
Colour Field Painting is a form of abstraction that uses large areas of colour to...
Caravaggio
Caravaggio (1571–1610) was an Italian painter whose dramatic use of light and shadow transformed European...
Documentary Photography
Documentary Photography records real people, places and events, often with the aim of informing, preserving...
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries that...
Edo Period
The Edo Period (1603–1868) was a time of relative peace, stability and cultural growth in...
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a Mexican artist best known for her self-portraits, which explored identity,...
Feminist Art
Feminist Art explores issues relating to gender, identity and representation, often challenging historical inequalities within...
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin is an American photographer best known for documenting her own life and the...
Impressionism
Impressionism is a painting movement that emerged in France in the late 19th century, focused...
Installation Art
Installation Art is created to transform a space rather than exist as a single object....
iPad Drawing
iPad Drawing refers to artwork created digitally using tablet devices and styluses. It has become...
Land Art
Land Art uses natural landscapes and materials as the medium for artistic creation. Artists often...
Landscape Painting
Landscape Painting depicts natural scenery such as mountains, rivers, forests and coastlines. It became an...
Minimalism
Minimalism is an art movement that strips visual language back to its essential elements. Artists...
Pointillism
Pointillism is a technique developed in the late 19th century using small dots of pure...
Performance Art
Performance Art is an art form in which the artist's actions become the artwork. It...
Portrait Photography
Portrait Photography focuses on capturing a person's appearance, character or identity. While some portraits are...
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism explores the cultural, political and social impact of colonialism and its legacy. In art,...
Production Design
Production Design is the creation of the visual world of a film, television programme or...
Photography
Photography is the practice of creating images using light, traditionally through film and more recently...
Portrait Painting
Portrait Painting focuses on representing a specific person or group of people. While some portraits...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a French painter and one of the leading figures of Impressionism....
Paul Signac
Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop...
The Sublime
The Sublime refers to an aesthetic concept describing greatness and experiences of overwhelming scale, power,...
Surrealism
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement that emerged in the 1920s. Influenced by dreams,...
Self-Portraiture
Self-portraiture is the practice of artists depicting themselves in their own work. Beyond simple likenesses,...
Samurai
Samurai were members of Japan's military elite who served feudal lords for centuries. Although famous...
Storyboarding
Storyboarding is the process of planning a film, animation or production through a sequence of...
Sculpture
Sculpture is a three-dimensional art form created by carving, modelling, casting or assembling materials. Unlike...
Yorkshire School
The Yorkshire School is an informal term often used to describe a group of artists...
