This term is used in art to mean any work that is designed to be set up for viewing by the public. It is often designed for a specific site. They were first used in art in the 1970's and are s [..]

Having many colors; multicolored. This term is usually used to describe sculptural or decorative objects finished or decorated with paint or glazes or using different metals and materials to achieve a [..]

Avant-garde newspaper first published in Mexico in 1921. The first issue proposition, penned by Manuel Maples Arce adopted a highly provocative Dada-Futurist tone, attacking bourgeois society and its [..]

Painting by means of a small, highly controllable mechanical paint- sprayer. The method was first used in the graphic and commercial arts to achieve a smooth, polished finish, and was later adopted by [..]

The literal content or story of a work that stands for abstract ideas, suggesting a parallel, deeper, symbolic sense.

Any of a variety of decorated panels-often gilded in gold leaf- screens or shrines rising behind an altar to signify its importance and authority, to tell an associated legend and so on. The most comm [..]

A Peruvian editorial launched in Lima in 1926-30. Amauta, which means 'wise man' or 'teacher' in Quechua, was edited by the writer José Mariátegui, who founded the Peru [..]

The first phase of Cubism, from about 1907 to 1912. Analytic cubists reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these essentially three-dimensional parts with the [..]

A Brazilian social and artistic manifesto written by Oswald de Andrade in 1928. Six years earlier Andrade wrote Pau-Brasil Poetry, that contains the early ideas of hybridity, colonization, and the que [..]

An intaglio, etching, and tonal printing process in which a porous ground allows acid to penetrate to form a network of small dots in the plate, as well as the prints made by this process. The parts t [..]