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pantomime
pantomime or mime [Gr.,=all in mimic], silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties. It is known to have existed among the Chinese, Persians, Hebrews, and Egyptians and has been observed in many other cultures. Pantomime ...
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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932, British artist, landscape gardener, and crafts artist. She was associated with William Robinson and Edwin Lutyens in developing an informal and natural style of garden. Her works include Wood and Garden (1899) and Garden Ornament (1918).
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conceptual art
conceptual art art movement that began in the 1960s and stresses the artist's concept rather than the art object itself. Growing out of minimalism , conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts and ideas themselves into the primary artistic medium, appealing to the spectator's intellect instead of ...
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art
art The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting ; sculpture ; drawing ; photography , and architecture .
Bibliography: See also articles on specific artists, periods, styles, regions, genres, and graphic media.
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naturalism
naturalism in art, a tendency toward strict adherence to the physical appearance of nature and rejection of ideal forms. Artists as diverse as Velázquez , J. F. Millet , and Monet , have followed naturalistic principles.
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pastiche
pastiche , work of art that combines themes and styles from various sources in such a way as to appear obviously derivative. Pastiches are frequently passed off as works by the artists from whom the motifs and figures were taken.
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Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari , 1511-74, Italian architect, writer, and painter. He is best known for his entertaining biographies of artists, Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori e scultori italiani (1550, rev. ed. 1568). The standard modern edition is that annotated by Gaetano Milanesi (1878), tr...
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Abate Filippo Baldinucci
Abate Filippo Baldinucci , 1624-96, Italian art historian and philologist. Baldinucci was a pioneer in research techniques and among the first to emphasize the aesthetic importance of the print. An artistic adviser to the Medici court, he also wrote the first dictionary of art terminology. His three...
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M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher) , 1898-1972, Dutch artist. Primarily a graphic artist, Escher composed works notable for their irony, often with impossible perspectives rendered with mechanical verisimilitude. He created visual riddles, playing with the pictorially logical and the visually ...
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Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer 1950-, American artist, b. Gallipolis, Ohio. She links text and image in works of art composed of short aphorisms or longer declarations. Influenced by Dada , conceptual art, and feminism, her works range from printed signs to LED word sculptures and from a huge electronic billboard i...
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