What's the Difference? Art 150 Key Concepts in Art

Introduction    
How to use this book 
Movements    
Minoan art — Mycenaean art
ancient Roman art — Romanesque art
Byzantine — Gothic
Tang Dynasty art — Song Dynasty art
Early Renaissance — High Renaissance
Renaissance — Mannerism
Baroque — Rococo
Romanticism — Realism
Impressionism — Post-Impressionism
Primitive art — Naïve art
Ukiyo-e — Cloisonnism
Japonisme — Orientalism
Expressionism — Abstract Expressionism
Art Nouveau — Art Deco
Modernism — Postmodernism
Cubism — Futurism
Suprematism — Constructivism
De Stijl — Bauhaus
Dada — Surrealism
Action Painting — Colour Field
Pop art — Op art
graffiti — street art
Photorealism — Hyperrealism
Modern art — Contemporary art
Techniques     
art — design
line — mark
sketching — drawing
modelling — carving
shadow — tone
fresco — mural
buon fresco — fresco secco
triptych — diptych
chiaroscuro — sfumato

woodcut — etching
bas-relief — high relief
drypoint — engraving
atmospheric perspective — linear perspective
grisaille — underpainting
sculpture — installation
distortion — foreshortening
scumbling — glazing
screenprinting — lithography
photography — photomontage
contrast — unity
observation — imagination
pointillism — stippling
dry brushing — sgraffito
impasto — imprimatura
assemblage — collage
plein-air painting — studio painting
trompe l’oeil — verisimilitude
Materials           
symmetry — asymmetry
paint — pigment
charcoal — pencil
chalk pastel — oil pastel
tapestry — embroidery
mosaic — tilework
tempera — encaustic
watercolour — gouache
acrylic paint — oil paint
Concepts          
subject — theme
abstract — figurative
Fibonacci sequence — golden ratio
creativity — innovation
symbolism — allegory
history painting — genre painting
still life — life drawing
negative space — positive shapes

Land art — landscape architecture
landscape — panorama
picturesque — Grand Manner
warm colours — cool colours
primary colours — complementary colours
sublime — beauty
post-colonial art — decolonization
Movers & shakers         
Index    
Notes & image credits