Style

  • Plateresque
    Plateresque, meaning “in the manner of a silversmith” (plata being silver in Spanish), was an artistic […]
  • Comics
    Comics is a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information. Comics […]
  • Illusionistic ceiling painting
    Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the […]
  • Scumble
    A Glaze or Scumbling is a thin transparent or semi-transparent layer on a painting which modifies the appearance of the […]
  • Verdadism
    Verdadism is the word created by artist, designer and writer, Soraida Martinez, to describe her art. The word is a […]
  • Orientalism
    In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern […]
  • Pointillism
    Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. […]
  • Multi-sketch
    Multi-sketch is an animation method of story-telling where a sequence of hand-drawn sketches are created simultaneously […]
  • PWA Moderne
    PWA Moderne (or “P.W.A. Moderne”, PWA/WPA Moderne, Federal Moderne, Depression Moderne, Classical Moderne, […]
  • Russian architecture
    Russian architecture follows a tradition whose roots were in war Kievan Rus’. After the fall of Kiev, Russian […]
  • National Romanticism in Norway
    Norwegian romantic nationalism (Norwegian: Nasjonalromantikken) was a movement in Norway between 1840 and 1867 in art, […]
  • Danish Golden Age
    The Danish Golden Age is the term for a period of Danish art and cultural life from approx. 1800 to approx. 1850. At […]