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Art Terms

A word you didn't know makes the work you're about to meet far more interesting.
An art glossary.

Index

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Performance Art
Art that takes the artist's body and time directly as its material; deeply rooted in contemporary art since the 1970s.
Public Art
Works sited outside the museum, in public space; implies dialogue with a community.
Pictorialism
A late-19th to early-20th-century photographic movement that approached photography with painterly aesthetics.
Pinhole Camera
A primitive camera that forms an image through a pinhole rather than a lens; known for soft blur and long exposures.
Primitivism
An early-20th-century inclination drawing on non-Western forms; today its structural gaze is itself critically examined.
Postmodern
A current since the 1970s that affirms plurality, citation, and fragmentation against a singular modernist progress.
Pop Art
A 1950s–60s movement that absorbed mass-consumer imagery, shaking the boundary between advertising and fine art.