Art Terms (T)

Question 1

The Ancients

Answer 1

The Ancients were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake in the last years before his death in 1827

Question 2

The Black Aesthetic

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The black aesthetic is a cultural ideology that developed in America alongside the civil rights movement in the 1960s and promoted black separatism in the arts

Question 3

The New Vision

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The New Vision was a photography movement which developed in the 1920s directly related to the principles of the Bauhaus

Question 4

The Photo-Secession

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Group of American photographers who believed that photography was a fine art

Question 5

Tableau

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Tableau is used to describe a painting or photograph in which characters are arranged for picturesque or dramatic effect and appear absorbed and completely unaware of the existence of the viewer

Question 6

Tachisme

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Term used to describe the non-geometric abstract art that developed in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s characterized by spontaneous brushwork, drips and scribble-like marks

Question 7

Tempera

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The technique of painting with pigments bound in a water-soluble emulsion, such as water and egg yolk, or an oil-in-water emulsion such as oil and a whole egg

Question 8

Time-Based Media

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Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension

Question 9

Tone

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The lightness or darkness of something – this could be a shade, or how dark or light a colour appears

Question 10

Trompe L’oeil

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French phrase meaning ‘deceives the eye’ used to describe paintings that create the illusion of a real object or scene

Question 11

The Uncanny

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A concept in art associated with psychologist Sigmund Freud which describes a strange and anxious feeling sometimes created by familiar objects in unfamilar contexts