Art Glossary

Section

19th Century American Art

19th Century American Paintings and Works on Paper

20th Century Art

20th Century Furniture and Design

aboriginal painting

abstract drawing

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Landscape

abstract painting

Abstract Photography

abstract print

abstractphotography

acrylic painting

Adolescence

Advertising and Brands

aerosolpainting

African Diaspora

Allegory

Alter Egos and Avatars

Altered and Substituted Canvases

Aluminium

aluminium sculpture

Aluminum

american artists

American Furniture and Design

Americana

analogue photography

Anatomy

Andes Region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela)

Angular

Animal Portrait

animaldrawing

animalpainting

animalphotography

animalprint

Animals

animalsculpture

Animation

Anthropomorphism

Antiquity as Subject

Appropriation

Arabesque Scroll

Architecture

architecturephotography

architectureprints

Architectures Effects

argentinean artists

art brut

Art Deco

Artists Frame

Asian Art

Assemblage

Atmospheric Landscapes

Attenuated Figure

Australia and New Zealand

australianartists

Austria

Automatism

ballpoint pen

Baroque

Bedrooms and Bathrooms

Beijing Artists

belgianartists

Belgium

Berlin Artists

Bible Story

Biomorphic

Black-and-White Photography

blackandwhitepaintings

blackandwhitephotography

Blurred

Body Parts

Bowl

Brazil

brazilianartists

British Artists

British Furniture and Design

Bronze

Brooklyn Artists

Bulbous

bulgarianartists

CalArts

California Art

Calligraphic

Canada

canadianartists

Canvas

canvaspainting

Caribbean

cartoonpaintings

Carving

Celebrity

Ceramic

ceramicsculpture

Chair

Chance

charcoal

charcoaldrawing

charcoalpainting

Chiaroscuro

China

chineseartists

Christian Art and Architecture

Cinematic

Circus Carnival

City Scenes

Cityscapes

Cityscapes and City Scenes

Classical Figure

Classical Mythology

Collaborations and Collectives

Collage

collagedrawing

collagepainting

Collecting and Modes of Display

Collective History

Color Photography

Color Theory

Columns and Totems

Comic Cartoon

Conceptual Art

Concrete

Conflict

Consumerism

Contemporary Academic Realism

Contemporary Archaeological

Contemporary Art

Contemporary Asian Art

Contemporary British Art

Contemporary Canadian Art

Contemporary Ceramics

Contemporary Chinese Art

Contemporary Color Fields

Contemporary Conceptualism

Contemporary DIY

Contemporary Fact versus Fiction

Contemporary Fauvist

Contemporary Faux Naif

Contemporary Figurative Drawing

Contemporary Figurative Painting

Contemporary Furniture and Design

Contemporary Gestural Abstraction

Contemporary Glass

Contemporary Gothic

Contemporary Graphic Realism

Contemporary Grotesque

Contemporary Indian Art

Contemporary Latin American Art

Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Art

Contemporary Modernist-Type Photography

Contemporary Op Art

Contemporary Participation

Contemporary Photography

Contemporary Pop

Contemporary Portrait Painting

Contemporary Portrait Photography Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography

Contemporary Scandinavian Art

Contemporary Surrealistic

Contemporary Traces of Memory

Contemporary Use of Textiles

Contour Line

Contrast

Creased, Crinkled, Wrinkled

Crowds

Cuba

Cultural Commentary

Curvilinear Forms

Decay

Deep Time

Deities and Holy Figures

Design

Diaristic

Digital Art

Digital as Manual

Digital Culture

Digital Print

Digitally Manipulated

digitalphotography

Disaster

Divisionist

Documentary Photography

Documentary Travel Photography

Dotted

dutchartists

Dynamism

East Asian Ink-and-Wash Painting

Eastern Africa

Eastern Europe

Egypt

En plein air

Encaustic

Encaustic Painting

Engaged with Traditional African Art

Engaged with Traditional Chinese Art

Engagement with Mass Media

Engineering Construction and Design

Engraving

Erased and Obscured

Erotic

Etching

EtchingEngraving

etchingprint

everydaylifedrawing

everydaylifepainting

everydaylifephotography

Eye Contact

Face

Failure

Family

Fantasy Prints

Fashion Design and Wearable Art

fashionpainting

Faux Naif

Femininity

Figure from the Back (Rückenfigur)

Figure Studies

Figures in Nature

fineartdrawings

Flora

floralpaintings

floralphotography

floralprints

Focus on Materials

Focus on the Social Margins

Folded Planes

Food

Found Objects

Fragmented Geometry

France

French Furniture and Design

frenchartists

Furniture

gardenpaintings

Gemstone

Gender

Geometric

Geometric Painting

germanartists

Germany

Gestural

Gestural Abstraction

Glamour

Glass

Glass as Material

glasssculpture

Glitch Aesthetic

Glittery

Globalization

Gold

Gold Leaf and Gilding

gouache

gouachepaintings

Graffiti and Street Art

Graphic Design

graphicpaintings

graphicprint

graphite

Greece

Grid

Grotesque

Group of Objects

Group of Portraits

Group Portrait

Handcrafted Furniture and Design

Hard-Edged

Hatching

Highly Ornamented

History Painting

Household Objects

Hugs and Kisses

Human Figure

Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures

Hyperrealism

iconicpaintings

iconicphotography

iconsprint

Identity Politics

Illustration

Implied Narrative

Indian Artists

Individual Portrait

Industrial and Product Design

Industry

Infographics and Diagrams

ink

inkdrawing

inkpainting

Installation

Intentionally Exposed Canvas

Interactive

Interiors

Interlaced Bodies

Intersectionality

Intricately Sculpted

Iran

Iranian Artists

Iron

Irregular Curvilinear Forms

Isolation Alienation

Israel

Italian Furniture and Design

italianartists

Italy

Japan

Japanese Photography

Jewelry

Kinetic Sculpture

Kitsch

Knitted and Crocheted

Korea

Landscape Photography

landscapedrawing

landscapepainting

Landscapes

Language

Large Brushstrokes Loose Brushwork

Large-Scale Painting

Large-Scale Photography

Large-Scale Sculpture

Latin American Art

Leisure

Letter Art

Light Art

Light as Subject

Lighting

Line Form and Color

Line, Form, and Color

Linear Forms

Lithograph

Lithography

lithographyprint

London Artists

Los Angeles Artists

Love

Machines

Manipulated Photography

Marble

Marble Powder

Marker

markerdrawing

markerpainting

Masculinity

Mediated View

Medical Health

Metal

mexicanartists

Mexico

Migration

Mimicking Ruined Materials

Miniature and Small-Scale Paintings

Mixed-Media

mixedmedia

Modern and Contemporary Design

Modern and Impressionist Art

Modern and Impressionist Prints

Modern Design

Modern Photography

Modes of Transportation

Molecular

Money

Monotype Monoprint

Mood

Mortality

Movement

Multiple Exposure

Multiple Styles

Mural

Murals and Wall Drawings

Mutated Bodies

Mysticism Shamanism and the Occult

Narrative

Natural Fibers

Natural History

Nature

naturephotography

natureprint

Nautical

Neoclassicism

Neon

Neon and Fluorescent Light

New York Artists

Northern Africa

Nostalgia

Nude

nudedrawing

nudepainting

nudephotography

Obsolescence

oil

Oil on Panel

Oil Painting

Old Master Drawings and Prints

Old Master Influenced Fantasy

Old Masters

Open Form

Organic Material

Outdoor Art

Outer Space

Outsider Art

Painting

Pakistan

Paper

paperpaintings

papersculpture

Paris Artists

Parties and Celebrations

Passage

Pastel

Pastel Drawing

pastelpaintings

Patterns

pencil

pencilpaintings

People at Home

Performing Arts

Personal Histories

Personal Writing Systems

Photo

Photogram

Photograph as Material

Photographic Source

Photographs of Surfaces

Photography

Photojournalism

Photomontage

Photorealistic

Picassoesque

Pigment Ink

pigments

pigmentspainting

Pixelated

Plastic

plasticsculpture

polishartists

Political Events

Political Figures

Political Minimalism

politicalandhistoricalpainting

popartpainting

popartprint

Popular Culture

Porcelain

portraitdrawing

portraitpainting

portraitphotography

Portraits without a Face

portraitsculpture

Portugal

posca

Post-Internet Art

Post-War American Art

Post-War European Art

Poster

Poured

Primary Abstraction

Printed Matter

Process-Oriented

Provocative

Psychoanalysis

Pulled, Scraped, and Scratched

Racial and Ethnic Identity

Radiating Lines

Recycled

Reflections

Related to Fashion

Related to Film

Related to Games

Related to Literature

Related to Music

Related to Punk

Related to Religion

Related to Toys

Relief

Repetition

Representations of Everyday Objects

Research as Art

Resin

resinsculpture

Restrained Forms

ronsculpture

Royal Court Commission

Royalty and Aristocracy

Rural Life

Russia

russianartists

Saints

San Francisco Artists

Scandinavia

Scandinavian Furniture and Design

Scenes of Everyday Life

Science

Science Fiction

Sculptural Use of Paint

Sculpture-Based Photography

Self as Subject

Self-Portrait

Sex

Shadows

Silhouettes

Silkscreen

Silver

Site-Specific Art

Skyscapes

Snapshot Aesthetic

Social Action

Soft Sculpture

Sound Art

South Africa

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Southern Cone Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

southkoreanartists

Spain

spanishartists

Sparse

Splattered Dripped

Sports Athletics

Spray Paint

Staged Photography

Stained Glass Effect

Stains Washes

Steel

steelsculpture

stencil

Still Life

stilllifepainting

Stolen Moments

Stone

Storage

Street Photography

streetart

streetartdrawing

streetartpainting

streetartsculpture

Striped

Suburbia

Surrealism

Surveillance

Suspended Hanging

swissartists

Switzerland

Symbolic Composition

Table

Tableware

Taiwan

Tangled Forms

Tapestry and Wall Hanging

Technology

Tempera

Text

textile

Textile Arts

The Abject

The American West

The Anthropocene

The Art Market

The Artists Studio

The Body

The City

The Domestic and Domesticity

The Elements

The Environment

The Fantastic

The Mundane

The Netherlands

The Seasons

Time

Times of Day

Tokyo Artists

Tondo

Topographic Photography

Traces, Indexes, and Implied Presence

Traditional Photographic Techniques

Transfer

Trauma and Struggle

Travel Tourism

Turkey

Typography

Typologies

ukrainianartists

United States

Unsettling

Urbanization

urbanphotography

Use of Common Materials

Use of Ephemeral Materials

Use of Fabric

Use of Paper

Use of Precious Materials

Use of Traditional Techniques

Use of Vintage Imagery

Utopia

Vacant and Vacated Spaces

Vase

vehiclepaintings

Vessel

Violence

Viscous Forms

Visual Perception

Wall Art

Wall Sculpture and Installation

War and Military

Water

water

Watercolor

watercolourpaintings

waterpainting

Waterscapes

Whimsical Design

Women Artists

Women Designers

Wood

Woodcut and Linocut

woodsculpture

Work and Workers

Work on Paper

Written Word

Yale University School of Art

2940 Portland Dr.
Oakville, Ontario, Canada L6H5W8
Khalifa Blvd, Dubai, UAE
[email protected]

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