Art Words
A word you didn't know makes the work you're about to meet far more interesting.
An art glossary.
Pastel
A powdered pigment shaped with a small amount of binder; valued for soft colour and gentle blending.
Papier Mâché
紙を糊で貼り重ねて成型する造形素材・技法。軽量で、彫刻や仮面、祭礼の造形に用いられる。
Performance Art
Art that takes the artist's body and time directly as its material; deeply rooted in contemporary art since the 1970s.
Public Art
Works sited outside the museum, in public space; implies dialogue with a community.
Pictorialism
A late-19th to early-20th-century photographic movement that approached photography with painterly aesthetics.
Pigment
色の素となる不溶性の色材。展色剤と練り合わせて絵具となり、あらゆる絵画の基礎をなす。
Pinhole Camera
A primitive camera that forms an image through a pinhole rather than a lens; known for soft blur and long exposures.
Primitivism
An early-20th-century inclination drawing on non-Western forms; today its structural gaze is itself critically examined.
Process Art
完成した物よりも、制作の過程や素材の変化そのものを重視する動向。
Provenance
作品の来歴・所有の履歴。真贋判定や価値評価、取引の信頼性を支える重要な記録。
Postmodern
A current since the 1970s that affirms plurality, citation, and fragmentation against a singular modernist progress.
Post-Minimalism
ミニマリズムの厳格な幾何学を受けつつ、素材の柔らかさや制作の過程、身体性を取り戻した1960年代末以降の動向。プロセス・アートなどを含む。
Pop Art
A 1950s–60s movement that absorbed mass-consumer imagery, shaking the boundary between advertising and fine art.
Polaroid Print
撮影直後に現像されるインスタント写真。独特の色調と一回性が作品にも用いられる。