Art Terms

MoMA

This glossary explains some of the techniques, mediums, art movements, and other terms. 180 Terms

• Abstract Expressionism 7 examples

• Abstraction 4 examples

• Action painting 3 examples

• Actuality 5 examples

• Allover painting 5 examples

• Ambrotype 4 examples

• Aquatint 5 examples

• Architectural fragment 6 examples

• Architectural model 6 examples

• Architecture 6 examples

• Arte Povera 4 examples

• Artist’s book 4 examples

• Arts and Crafts movement 6 examples

• Assemblage 8 examples

• Audio 6 examples

• Automatism 5 examples

• Avant-garde 7 examples

• Bauhaus 8 examples

• Ben-Day dots 4 examples

• Biomorphic 6 examples

• Black Maria 0 examples

• Black Mountain College 2 examples

• B movie 1 example

• Canvas 6 examples

• Cartes- de-visite 2 examples

• Cast 6 examples

• Charcoal 9 examples

• Chine collé 4 examples

• Choreography 4 examples

• Cinématographe 2 examples

• CoBrA 2 examples

• Collage 12 examples

• Collotype 1 example

• Colored pencil 5 examples

• Color Field painting 4 examples

• Combine 3 examples

• Conceptual art 7 examples

• Constructivism 6 examples

• Critical Design 1 example

• Cubism 7 examples

• Dada 7 examples

• Decalcomania 6 examples

• Degenerate art 5 examples

• Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) 4 examples

• Design 12 examples

• de Stijl 8 examples

• Diazotype 3 examples

• Die Brücke (The Bridge) 6 examples

• Digital print 3 examples

• Diptych 8 examples

• Direct Cinema 4 examples

• Documentary film 4 examples

• Double exposure 1 example

• Drawing 8 examples

• Drypoint 7 examples

• Dye transfer print 7 examples

• Earthwork 8 examples

• Edition 8 examples

• Embossing 1 example

• Enamel 6 examples

• Engraving 6 examples

• Etching 6 examples

• Expressionism 4 examples

• Exquisite corpse 6 examples

• Fauvism 5 examples

• Feminist art 9 examples

• Figurative 7 examples

• Film 10 examples

• Fluxus 6 examples

• Found object 6 examples

• Frottage 8 examples

• Furniture and interiors 4 examples

• Futurism 6 examples

• Gouache 9 examples

• Graphic design 5 examples

• Graphite 6 examples

• Happenings 2 examples

• Illustrated book 2 examples

• Impasto 6 examples

• Impressionism 4 examples

• Industrial design 9 examples

• Ink 10 examples

• Installation 5 examples

• Institutional critique 7 examples

• Intaglio 6 examples

• International Style 7 examples

• Kinetic art 4 examples

• Kinetograph 1 example

• Lead 6 examples

• Letterpress 6 examples

• Linoleum cut 5 examples

• Lithography 8 examples

• Mail art 2 examples

• Mass production 6 examples

• Melodrama 3 examples

• Merz 2 examples

• Mexican Muralism 2 examples

• Mezzotint 4 examples

• Minimalism 6 examples

• Mobile 1 example

• Monochrome 6 examples

• Monotype 8 examples

• Montage 3 examples

• Multiple 6 examples

• Mural 3 examples

• Neo-Impressionism 3 examples

• Neon 2 examples

• Neo-Plasticism 2 examples

• Op art 3 examples

• Orphism 3 examples

• Painting 7 examples

• Papier mâché 3 examples

• Pastel 7 examples

• Patina 2 examples

• Pencil 3 examples

• Performance 6 examples

• Periodical 6 examples

• Perspective 3 examples

• Photography 7 examples

• Photomontage 3 examples

• Pictorialism 10 examples

• Plastic 6 examples

• Pochoir 1 example

• Pointillism 3 examples

• Pop art 6 examples

• Portfolio 2 examples

• Portrait 11 examples

• Poster 7 examples

• Post-Impressionism 6 examples

• Postmodernism 6 examples

• Prefabrication 3 examples

• Primitive Art 5 examples

• Print 6 examples

• Printer 1 example

• Product design 7 examples

• Proof 6 examples

• Propaganda 6 examples

• Prototype 3 examples

• Radical Architecture 4 examples

• Rayograph 4 examples

• Readymade 4 examples

• Relief 5 examples

• Relief print 0 examples

• Resin 6 examples

• Score 1 example

• Screenprint 8 examples

• Sculpture 6 examples

• Self-portrait 6 examples

• Shadow box 3 examples

• Short 5 examples

• Silkscreen 8 examples

• Sketch 6 examples

• Skyscraper 6 examples

• Social Realism 5 examples

• Software 5 examples

• Sound- on-disc 4 examples

• Sound- on-film 1 example

• Special effect 4 examples

• Stencil 3 examples

• Still life 9 examples

• Street photography 5 examples

• Suprematism 4 examples

• Surrealism 8 examples

• Symbolism 4 examples

• Tempera 6 examples

• Textile 6 examples

• The New Art 5 examples

• The New Objectivity 8 examples

• Triptych 5 examples

• Typography 8 examples

• Vaudeville 1 example

• Vehicle 8 examples

• Vernacular photography 14 examples

• Video 8 examples

• Vorticism 3 examples

• Watercolor 11 examples

• Website 1 example

• Wide shot 5 examples

• Woodcut 6 examples

• Young British Artists 5 examplesbout us