Art Terms (N) Flashcards
Naïve Art
Naïve art is simple, unaffected and unsophisticated – usually specifically refers to art made by artists who have had no formal training in an art school or academy
Narrative
Narrative art is art that tells a story
Naturalism
Naturalism was a broad movement in the nineteenth century which represented things closer to the way we see them
Négritude
Négritude was an anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in the 1930s who sought to reclaim the value of blackness and African culture
Neo-Dada
The term neo-dada applied to the work of artists working in America in the 1950s and 1960s which was reminiscent of the art of the early twentieth century dada movement
Neo-Expressionism
Neo-expressionism acted as a major revival of painting in an expressionist manner in the 1980s and it occurred internationally
Neo-Geo
Short for neo-geometric conceptualism, the term neo-geo came into use in the early 1980s in America to describe the work of artists who criticized the mechanisation and commercialism of the modern world
Neo-Impressionism
Neo-impressionism is the name given to the post-impressionist work of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and their followers who, inspired by optical theory, painted using tiny adjacent dabs of primary colour to create the effect of light
Neo-Plasticism
Neo-plasticism is a term adopted by the Dutch pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian, for his own type of abstract painting which used only horizontal and vertical lines and primary colours
Neo-Romanticism
Neo-romanticism is a term applied to the imaginative and often quite abstract landscape based painting of Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland and others in the late 1930s and 1940s
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism was a particularly pure form of classicism that emerged from about 1750
New Figuration
New figuration is a blanket term referring to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 1960s following a period dominated by abstraction
New Generation Sculpture
New generation sculpture were a group of young British sculptors working in the 1960s, who experimented with materials, forms and colours with the shared aim of ridding sculpture of its traditional base
New Genre Public Art
The term new genre public art, refers to public art, often activist in nature, and created outside institutional structures in order to engage directly with an audience
New Media
A term new media is used to describe the sophisticated new technologies that have become available to artists since the late 1980s that can enable the digital production and distribution of art
