Sir Jhon Everett Millais, Bt
Ophelia
1851-2
ARTIST IN THE COLLECTION
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ART TERMS
Find definitions of over 400 terms, including art movements, styles and techniques
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SURREALISM
A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary -
Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), founded in London in 1848. They were opposed to the Royal Academy’s promotion of the ideal as exemplified in the work of Raphael -
Performance art
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted -
Young British Artists(YBAs)
The label Young British Artists (YBAs) is applied to a loose group of British artists who began to exhibit together in 1988 and who became known for their openness to materials and processes, shock tactics and entrepreneurial attitude -
Abstract art
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect -
Land art
Land art or earth art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs -
Impressionism
Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life -
Feminist art
Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early 1970s -
Installation art
The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time -
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s
ART IN THE COLLECTION
VIDEOS
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Dayanita Singh
Photographer Dayanita Singh explains how her photography books are like sculptures
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Emeka Ogboh: 'Lagos is a city that is never silent'
When the Nigerian artist first moved to Berlin he couldn’t sleep because it was so quiet
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BMW Tate Live: Joan Jonas
Watch the artist perform a new work created especially for an online audience and filmed at Tate Modern
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Unlock Art: A Brief History of Art Undressed
Dawn O'Porter takes us on a tour of nudity in art, from its origins 25,000 years ago to the present
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Dayanita Singh
Photographer Dayanita Singh explains how her photography books are like sculptures
In this film Dayanita Singh tells us how the overpowering colour of India led her to work in black and white which she felt made the images ‘more elusive’. She also talks about how her frustrations with how she feels her images become ‘fossilized’ in museums and art galleries and how this prompted to develop her mobile ‘pocket museums’ – which are structures that allow Dayanita herself or invited participants to move and change displays of her work.
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Emeka Ogboh: 'Lagos is a city that is never silent'
When the Nigerian artist first moved to Berlin he couldn’t sleep because it was so quiet
Growing up in Lagos, Emeka Ogboh was surrounded by the city’s constant and powerful soundscape.
On leaving the city he was struck by the ability of sound to immerse and transport the listener physically. In his installation piece, The Way Heavenly Things are Going, first exhibited at Documenta 14 in Athens and currently on display in Tate Modern’s East Tank, he brings together a traditional Greek song of lamentation with a real time report of the stock market indexes. The artwork takes its title from a Bob Marley song and references the ongoing global financial crisis as well as mass migration and displaced communities. -
BMW Tate Live: Joan Jonas
Watch the artist perform a new work created especially for an online audience and filmed at Tate Modern
Joan Jonas, one of the most significant artists in the history of video and performance, opened the BMW Tate Live Performance Room 2013 series with a new work Draw Without Looking created especially for an online audience.
Following the performance, Jonas spoke to curator Catherine Wood and answered questions from viewers posted on social media.
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived exclusively for the online space, and the first artistic programme created purely for live web broadcast. -
Unlock Art: A Brief History of Art Undressed
Dawn O'Porter takes us on a tour of nudity in art, from its origins 25,000 years ago to the present
With an unflinching gaze, television presenter and writer Dawn O’Porter tackles the ever-changing rules of acceptability for representing and beholding flesh in art.
