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Art Words

A word you didn't know makes the work you're about to meet far more interesting.
An art glossary.

Index

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  27. 204 terms
Massurrealism
シュルレアリスムとマスメディア・技術を融合させた1990年代以降の潮流。
Matière
A French term for the material quality of a painting — its impasto and surface — speaking to its tactile character.
Material Art
素材そのものの物質性を主題とする美術。質感や物質の存在感を前面に出す。
Mannerism
A late-Renaissance style of exaggerated poses and tense compositions.
Manila School
The Manila painting lineage of the early 20th century, centered on UP Fine Arts and the Amorsolo Studio.
Multiple
作家が意図して複数制作する立体作品。版画の概念を三次元に広げ、美術の民主化を志向した。
Mandala
A circular image that diagrams the cosmos; lies at the crossroads of meditation and iconography.
Mixed Media
Combining multiple materials and techniques in one work; a standard mode of practice since the late 20th century.
Minimalism
A 1960s movement that strips away ornament and narrative to present form, colour, and material in their pure existence.
Mural
A large painting executed directly on a wall; recently widespread in the public spaces of Manila and Cebu.
Memento Mori
An allegory meaning 'remember death,' embedding skulls or hourglasses as symbols of transience.
Mail Art
郵便を用いて作品を送り合うネットワーク型の表現。制度の外で国境を越えて交換される。
Modernism
The broad modern art movement of the late 19th to mid-20th century, oriented toward a break with tradition.
Motif
A theme or image recurring across a work; a unit of an artist's pictorial vocabulary.
Monochrome
Painting in a single colour; the limitation foregrounds form and texture.
Monotype
A printmaking technique that yields essentially a single impression by transferring a directly painted plate to paper.
Montage
断片的な要素を組み合わせて新たな意味を生む手法。写真や映像の編集技法に由来する。
Multiculturalism
単一の欧米中心の基準ではなく、多様な文化的背景を等しく尊重する考え方。1990年代の美術界で、非西洋圏やマイノリティの作家への注目を大きく押し広げた。