Assemblage: A technique that brings together individual items that are 3-dimensional, displaying them in their original positions rather than being limited to a wall. An example would be that an artist decides to create a scene in their home of a table set for dinner, yet it is displayed in an art gallery.

-Art Fundamentals

de Stijl: A style of art that comes from the Netherlands featuring colors within a balanced structure of lines and rectangles. The style was meant to express the higher unity between humankind and the universe. Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg began the style in 1914.

-Art Fundamentals

Environmental Art: An art style that surrounds itself with items from the space that it is in. This form of art was influenced from assemblage and Pop art. The more modern name of this style is Site and Earth Art.

-Art Fundamentals

Hard-Edge Painting: A style of painting that excludes all reference to gesture, incorporating smooth, geometric forms to express that painting should be about form and nothing else.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Illusionism: The imitation of visual reality created on the flate surface ofthe picture plane by the use of perspective, light-and-dark shading, etc.

-Art Fundamentals

Illustration: An art practice that stresses anecdotes or story situations.

-Art Fundamentals

Minimalism: Minimalism is a type of Abstract Art that is reduced to the bare essentials, revealing very little variation in the use of compositional elements.

-Art Fundamentals

Neo-Abstraction: Neo-Abstractionists are hard-core abstract artists that create abstract art outside of the designated, historical period of the Abstract Art Movement.

-Art Fundamentals

Nonobjective Art: Nonobjective or nonrepresentational art is entirely imaginative and not based on anything visually perceived by the artist. The elements of the art, how they're organized, and how the artists treats them is deeply personal, and not associated with anything the observer has experienced in the natural world.

-Art Fundamentals

Objective Art: Objective Art is based on physical actuality or optical perception. This art appears natural or real.

-Art Fundamentals

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