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Kraak ware

A type of Chinese export porcelain produced mainly in the late Ming Dynasty, in the Wanli reign (1573–1620), but also in the Tianqi (1620–1627) and the Chongzhen (1627–1644). \[1\] It was among the first Chinese export wares to arrive in Europe in mass quantities, and was frequently featured in Dutch Golden Age paintings of still life subjects with foreign luxuries.

Studiolo

A small room, often lavishly decorated, dedicated to reading, studying and writing. It is generally of a relatively private character.

Repatriation

Repatriation is the return of stolen or looted cultural materials to their countries of origin.

Tenebrism

A term derived from the Italian 'tenebroso' which means darkened and obscuring. It is used to describe a certain type of painting in which significant details such as faces and hands are illuminated by highlights which are contrasted with a predominantly dark setting.

The Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects.

History painting

paintings with subject matter drawn from classical history and mythology, and the Bible – in the eighteenth century it was also used to refer to more recent historical subjects

Ukiyo-e prints

Ukiyo-e, often translated as "pictures of the floating world," refers to Japanese paintings and woodblock prints that originally depicted the cities' pleasure districts during the Edo Period, when the sensual attributes of life were encouraged amongst a tranquil existence under the peaceful rule of the Shoguns.

sublime

He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.

Salon des Réfusés

The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects" is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon

Primitivism

used to describe art created by "primitives" - the name given to certain artists, usually self-taught, whose paintings are usually simplistic in form and colour, and lacking in conventional motifs like chiaroscuro, linear perspective and other types of proportionality.

Degenerate Art Show

An art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition.

Readymade

First used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from manufactured objects. It has since often been applied more generally to artworks by other artists made in this way.

Automatism

a group of techniques used by the Surrealists to facilitate the direct and uncontrolled outpouring of unconscious thought.

Action painting

sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.

Arts activism

a dynamic practice combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change

Site-specific

art made with a specific location in mind, whether inside or outside. The work may be made at that location or made for it. May be an intervention in a specific place, environment or landscape.