Plein-air (en plein air)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Plein-air translates from French as "outdoors." The term applies to artists who worked outside, usually as a way to maintain direct contact with natural subjects rather than completing works in a studio based on sketches.
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Time-based Media
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The term 'time-based media' refers generally to moving images, audio, or video works that have duration and unfold gradually over time.
The Northwest Coast
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The societies of the Northwest coast of North America developed between the Coastal Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In relative isolation, they lived in fiords and islands in small communities and utilized the huge cedar forests to build elaborate totem poles. Their skill and favor for carving extended to include all areas of life on the coast.
Haida
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Refers to the culture and artwork of the Haida-speaking North American Indians of what is now the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, and the southern part of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, in the United States. The Alaskan Haida are called Kaigani. The indigenous culture of the Ravens is also a subgroup of the Haida.
Romanticism
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
During the late 18th and early centuries, the spirit of romanticism began to be seen in works of art. It has often been viewed as a movement created in opposition to neoclassicism, but it was far more than this.
Concentrations: Exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Concentrations was launched in 1981 by Curator of Contemporary Art Sue Graze as a series of five exhibitions to "explore the work of significant artists, working both in the Southwest and in other regions in the country.
Salon
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A salon is a government sponsored exhibition. Originally held in 1725 as the annual event of the French Academy of Art (Académie des Beaux-Arts), the salons signaled what styles, subjects, or individuals were considered most admirable. Juries selected the works and then arranged them in floor-to-ceiling displays ("salon-style" galleries).
Academic art (French Academy of Art)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In western art history, "academic" applies to the artists and objects influenced by a European academy of fine art training. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the French Academy of Art (Académie des Beaux-Arts) heavily influenced the aesthetic trends in Europe and the United States. Neoclassicism and Romanticism were both movements embraced as academic.
Bruce Conner, _Knox_
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
KNOX, an assemblage of found materials, comprises many layers of paper, plastic, fabric, and string.
Hopi Katsinas (Kachinas)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
For the Hopi, the word kachina (katsina) refers to three distinct but related entities: the invisible spirits who are an essential part of Hopi life, the personification of those spirits in ceremonial dances, and the carved and decorated dolls that the kachinas give to infants and women. Kachinas serve as intermediaries between the supernatural and human realms.