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Sustainable art

The expression sustainable art has been promoted recently as an art term that can be distinguished from environmental art that…

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Articulation in architecture

Articulation, in art and architecture, is a method of styling the joints in the formal elements of architectural design. Through…

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Avant-garde architecture

Avant-garde architecture is architecture which is innovative and radical. There have been a variety of architects and movements whose work…

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Rinceau

In architecture and the decorative arts, a rinceau (plural rinceaux; from the French, derived from old French rain 'branch with…

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Polychrome

Polychrome is the "practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to…

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in…

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Sgraffito

Sgraffito is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a…

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Pounce

Pouncing is an art technique used for transferring an image from one surface to another. It is similar to tracing,…

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Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is an oil painting technique, developed during the Renaissance, that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to…

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Sketch Drawing

A sketch (drawing) is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work. A sketch…

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another…

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Light and Space

Light and Space denotes a loosely affiliated art movement related to op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern…

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Retro style

Retro style is a style that is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the historical…

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Precisionism

Precisionism was the first indigenous modern art movement in the United States and an early American contribution to the rise…

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Czech Cubism

Czech Cubism (referred to more generally as Cubo-Expressionism) was an avant-garde art movement of Czech proponents of Cubism, active mostly…

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