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Ashcan school

ashlar

aspect ratio *

asphaltum

assemblage sculpture

assess, assessment

Associate of the Royal Academy of Art (ARA), a group of British artists is coming soon

Assyrian art - See Mesopotamian art

ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials)

astrology is coming soon - See ideomancy

Asturian art

Asuka

asymmetry, asymmetrical balance

atectonic

atelier

atlant, atlantid, or atlas

atmosphere is coming soon

atmospheric perspective - See aerial perspective

aubergine is coming soon

auction - See art auction is coming soon

audience

audio guide

audiovisual is coming soon

authorial irrelevance

authorial responsibility

autobiographical art

autochrome is coming soon

autocritical

autograph is coming soon

autographic ink

autography

automata

automatic writing is coming soon

automatism

automaton

autoportrait

autoriques is coming soon

avant-garde

avatar

aware, awareness is coming soon

A.W.S. See American Watercolor Society (AWS)

ax maybe eventually

axial plan

axis or axis line

axonometric projection

azurite

Babylonian art - See Mesopotamian art

badge (emblematic pin) is coming soon

bailee

bailey

bailor

bakelite is coming soon

balsa wood is coming soon

bandsaw is coming soon

banker

banner is coming soon

baptistery

Barbadian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

basket, basketry, basketwork

bas-relief

bassetaille

bat

Groupe du Bateau-lavoir

battlement - See crenelation

battle scenes is coming soon

Bauhaus

bay

Bay Area / West Coast figuration is coming soon

BC or B.C.

BCE or B.C.E.

bead, beaded is coming soon

beauty parlor or beauty salon

beaux-arts

beaver board is coming soon

bed

beehive tomb

bee's-eye view is coming soon

beeswax

Belgian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

belvedere

ben-ben

benchmarks See standards

benday

beni-e or beni-ye or benizuri-e or beni-zuri-ye

Benin

benzine

beret

Berlin Secession - See secession

beryl is coming soon

bestiary

beton brut is coming soon

bind - See bookbinding

bistre is coming soon

bit-depth

bite

bit-mapped image or bitmap image

bitten in

bitumen

black is coming soon

black-on-black is coming soon

black and white, B&W

black-figure

black light, also see ultraviolet is coming soon

blackware is coming soon

blanc de Chine

bland

blanket

Blaue Reiter, Der - See Der Blaue Reiter

Blaue Vier

blazen - See heraldry.

blazon, blazoning

bleach is coming soon

blemish is coming soon

blend

blind - See blind arcade, blindness, etc. is coming soon

blind arcade

blind continuous-line contour drawing - See contour drawing

blindness is coming soon

blind nitch is coming soon

blind pressing

blind spot

blind window is coming soon

block (printing)

blockbuster

blocking in

block out

blockout or block-out

block printing

blocks to creativity

bloom

Bloomsbury Group is coming soon

Blue Four - See Blaue Vier

blue is coming soon

blue pencil

Blue Rider - See Der Blaue Reiter

blur is coming soon

body color or bodycolor

body image is coming soon

body language is coming soon

Bohemian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Bolivian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

bolt is coming soon

bone is coming soon

boneless style - See mo-ku is coming soon

bookplate or ex libris

brainstorm, brainstorming

Brazilian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

breakfast painting - See ontbijt

bright [type of brush]

bright, brightness - See candela, color, glossy, light, mat, and value

brilliance, brilliant - brightness

brindled

bristle - See brush

bristol board or Bristol board

britannia

brittleness, brittle is coming soon

broad manner

broadsheet - See broadside

brown is coming soon

Brücke, Die - See Die Brücke

bruise is coming soon

brush washer - or need? brush cleaner

Buddhist art and Buddhism

buff [the color, not the body-build; and: just short of polish]

buffer

bug

bulletin board is coming soon

bulto - See santo

burlap is coming soon

burnish is coming soon

burnisher

burlesque is coming soon

Bulgarian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

burr

bush hammer

business is coming soon

c., c., or ca.

cadavre exquis - See exquisite corpse

calcium and calcium carbonate

Camden Town Group [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Canadian Group of Painters - See Seven, Group of

candle - See candela

canopy is coming soon

cantharos - See kantharos.

capture device - See scanner

care, concern is coming soon

caricature

carnival, carnivalesque

Carolingian art

carpentry is coming soon

carta pesta

carte de visite

cartoccio

cartography and cartographer

cartonnage (mummies) is coming soon

cast iron is coming soon

castle is coming soon

cave painting - See Stone Age

CCD array

CD-ROM

CE or C.E.

ceiling is coming soon

censor, censorious, censorship

Center for Arts and Culture

ceramics or ceramic ware

Cercle et Carré

ceremony, ceremonial is coming soon

Chaldean art - See Mesopotamian art

chance - See aleatory and aleatoric

charrette - See charette

chart - See diagram and graph

chatra - See parasol

chi - See feng shui

Chicano art / Chicana art

chigi

children's art

Chilian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

chine collé

Chinese art

Chinese ink - See India ink or Indian ink

Chinese white - See zinc white

Ching

chinoiserie

chipping out

chirality - See helix

Christian iconography is coming soon

chryselephantine is coming soon

chuban

ciborium

cinema, cinematography, film, movie, motion picture

circular (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)

clarity is coming soon

class

classical

classical orders

classicism is coming soon

classification

clerestory or clearstory

clock - See horology

cluster pier - See compound pier

cm or cm. - Abbreviation for centimeter

CMYK (cyan magenta yellow black)

coat and coating

coefficient of expansion

coffee-table book is coming soon

coffer or coffering

cognitive

coherence, coherent

cohesion, cohesive is coming soon

coil, and coil method or coil construction

coins - See numismatics and currency

collect, collection, collector

collectible

College Art Association (CAA)

Colombian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

colonialism is coming soon

colorant primaries - see subtractive primaries is coming soon

colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

color correction

color depth - See dynamic range

Color Field painting

color look-up table (CLUT)

color management systems

colossus and colossal

colour-man or colourman

column

combine

comic strip, comic book, comix is coming soon

commemorate

commercial art

commission

commodity and commodification

communication, communicate

companion piece is coming soon

compare, comparable, comparison

compass

compass rose

compensation - See rule of compensation

complementary afterimage

composite order or composite capital

compulsive is coming soon

Conceptualism, conceptual art, Conceptual art

cone, conical (the form)

cone (as in rods and cones)

confection

confettiism is coming soon

configuration

conflation

conflict

conglobe and conglobate

congruity - See incongruity

conservation and conserve - See art conservation

conservator - See art conservator

consign and consignment

consistency

construct and construction

construction paper

Constructivism or constructivism

contact print

conté crayon and Conté Crayon

contemplate, contemplation is coming soon

contemporary

content

context

continuous-line - See contour drawing

contour

contour drawing

contour lines

contract is coming soon

Corinthian or Corinthian order

Corinthian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

corner clamp

cornice

corrosion, corrosive is coming soon

corrugate, corrugated cardboard

Cor-ten steel

corundum

cosmetic, cosmeticize, and cosmetize

cosmononplusation

Costa Rican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

costume

cotton is coming soon

crack is coming soon

craftsman, craftsperson is coming soon

craftsmanship

cramp - See clamp

crater - See krater

crayon

crazing

creative process - See creativity

creative self-expression

crescent is coming soon

critic - See art critic, art criticism

criticism - See art critic, art criticism

criticize is coming soon

critique

Croatian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

crochet is coming soon

crocket

Cro-Magnon

cromlech

crop and crop mark

cross is coming soon

cross-barrel vault

crosscut saw

cross-hatching - See hatching

Cuban art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

culinary arts is coming soon

culture cultural

culture jamming

cuneiform

cup, cupping is coming soon

curiosity, curious is coming soon

currency - See numismatics and currency

cut, cutter, cutting is coming soon

cutaway view is coming soon

cute

cutlery, tableware is coming soon

Czech art [see artcyclopedia]

dabber

Dada, Dadaist

dado

daguerreotype or Daguerreotype

daho

damage is coming soon

damar

damascene is coming soon

dawning realism stage

day for night

day-glo colors or DayGlo colors

D.B.A.E. - See discipline-based art education (DBAE)

deaccession

deacidification is coming soon

deadline

dead white males - See DWM

decadence, decadent is coming soon

decagon

decagram or dekagram

decahedron

decal and decalcomania *

decay [see ruin] is coming soon

deconstruction, Deconstructivism

decoration, decorative, decorate

decorative arts

decorum

decoupage or découpage

decumanus

deduction

deed of gift

deep, deepness, depth of color

deesis

deface

defect is coming soon

definition, define, defining

Delft, Delft blue is coming soon

delineate

deltiology, deltiologist

denote, denotative, denotation is coming soon

deposition is coming soon

descender is coming soon

desco da parto

description, describe

destroy and destruction - also see loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft

detail

detergent

determinism is coming soon

detournement

detritus

deuteranomaly - See colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

deuteranopia - See colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

development - See Stages of Artistic Development

dexterity is coming soon

diaphragm arch - See arch

dicromasy, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

didactic

die

Die Brücke

Die Neue Sachlichtkeit [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

different and difference

differential focus

diffraction grating

diffused is coming soon

digital camera

digital fingerprint - See watermark

digital image digital imaging

dinos is coming soon

disabilities, artists with - See VSA arts

disc grinder

discipline-based art education (DBAE)

discoloration - See stain

disguise is coming soon

disordered (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)

di sotto in sù

dispersion, disperse is coming soon

diversity - See different and difference

donation and donor

doodle is coming soon

Doric or Doric order

drafting is coming soon

draftsman

draftsmanship

dragging

dragon is coming soon

dragma is coming soon

drama, dramatic - See theater

drape mold

drapery

drawing

draw knife or drawtool

drip is coming soon

drugs is coming soon

dry-on-dry is coming soon

dry-on-wet is coming soon

drypoint

dry transfer graphics

durability, durable is coming soon

duration (time something lasts, e.g. video tape, temporary work) is coming soon

dust mask is coming soon

dye and dyestuff

earth art and earthworks

earth colors

earthenware

earthworks - See earth art and earthworks

easel

ébauche is coming soon

ebony, ebonize is coming soon

economics in art, and art is coming soon

écorché

ecstasy is coming soon

edakumi-ryo

edge

edit is coming soon

edition

Edo period or Edo era

Elamite art - See Mesopotamian art

elasticity, elastic is coming soon

elastomer is coming soon

electrolysis

electrolyte

electronic is coming soon

elements of art or elements of design

elevation

elite, elitist and elitism

embellish, embellishment is coming soon

emblem

emboss

embrasure

embrittlement is coming soon

embroider, embroidery

empire style or Empire style

encouragement is coming soon - See praise

engaged column

engineer, engineering is coming soon, see rube g

enlarger is coming soon

Enlightenment

ennui

en plein air

ensemble is coming soon ex: Pilon sculp, Louvre, Brancusi endless col

ensign is coming soon

epistyle - See architrave

equestrian statue or equestrian art

equilateral

equilibrium

equine art or
equine statue

erotica and erotic art

esthetics - See aesthetics or æsthetics

ethnography, ethnology is coming soon

ethnosphere

Etruria - See Etruscan art

Etruscan art

Eurocentrism

eurythmy

eutaxia, eutaxic - See taxis.

evaluation evaluate

Evangelists

evoke, evocative is coming soon

ewer

examination

excavate, excavation

excellence is coming soon [presumptuously of course]

exemplar

exemplum

exergue

exhibit and exhibition

existentialism

exonumia

exothermic

exotic, exoticism is coming soon

expanded polystyrene plastic

experience is coming soon

experiment, experimental is coming soon

exploded view is coming soon

explore, exploration is coming soon

exponent is coming soon

exposure is coming soon

expression and expressionism

Expressionism

expressive qualities

exquisite

exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis

extended loan

extender and extending

exterior

extrados

extrusion, extruding

ex voto or ex-voto

eye - See see or seeing or sight

eyedropper

eye-hand coordination

fabric is coming soon

fabricate, fabrication

façade

face

facile is coming soon

facsimile

factotum is coming soon (see capital letter)

fact is coming soon

facture is coming soon

fade is coming soon

faience or faïence

failure is coming soon (we can handle it)

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

fat over lean or fat over thin

Federal Art Project (FAP)

feet

felts

felt-tip, felt-tipped marker, felt-tipped pen [see marker] is coming soon

feminism and feminist art

femmage

fenestration

feng shui

feretory - See reliquary

ferro concrete - See reinforced concrete

Fibonacci Sequence or Fibonacci Numbers

fibula

field and field of view

figurine is coming soon

filbert

file

filigree

Filipino art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

filler

fillet is coming soon

filling compound

film - See animation, cellophane, cinema (motion picture), movement, paint, photographic, time, and video

film speed is coming soon

finger paint or fingerpainting

finial

finish

Finnish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

fire - See firing

fire brick

fire gilding

fire, firing

fireplace - See mantel or mantelpiece

firing cracks

firing skin

First Amendment rights

flag, flags of Africa, flags of Asia, flag of Australia, flags of Europe, flags of North America, flags of South America, flags of Oceania, historical flags, US state flags

flake, flaking is coming soon

flare is coming soon

Flemish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

fleur de lis is coming soon

flexible, flexibility is coming soon

flipbook or flip book

floor is coming soon

flubdub - See dingbat

fluoresce, fluorescence and fluorescent lamps

fluorescent colors

flute, fluted, or fluting

flux

Fluxus

flying buttress - See buttress

fly-whisk

foam core or foam board

folkways is coming soon

follower is coming soon

folly is coming soon

font

fontography

foot

foreground

forerunner is coming soon

found image
found material
found object

foundry

fountain

four-dimensional

Fourteenth Street school

fourth dimension - time. See four-dimensional.

fourth wall - See theater.

fovea is coming soon

frame-within-a-frame is coming soon

framework is coming soon

free carving

freedom of expression - See First Amendment rights

freehand

freelance and freelancer

freestanding sculpture or free-standing sculpture

freezing point, see temperature

frisket is coming soon

FSA - See Farm Security Administration (FSA)

f/stop

ft.

fugitive colors, fugitive pigments

fumigant and fumigation

Fumiste [Fumisme?] is coming soon

function, functional

funk art

fur - See leather and fur.

gabion is coming soon

gable - See pediment.

gal.

Galatea - See Pygmalion.

gallerist

gallery

galley is coming soon

gallon

galvanized

games, gaming, game design is coming soon

gardening

gauffered is coming soon

general to particular

German Expressionism - See Expressionism

Gesamtkünstwerk or Gesamtkunstwerk

gestalt or Gestalt

ghost is coming soon

glabela is coming soon

glyptics or glyptography

goal

gold

Goldberg - See Rube Goldberg

gold leaf

Golden Mean or Golden Section

grace, graceful is coming soon

Grand Tour is coming soon

grapheme is coming soon

graphic and graphics

grattage is coming soon

gray is coming soon

grease pencil is coming soon

green is coming soon

grey - See gray is coming soon

grotto is coming soon

ground

Groupe du Bateau-lavoir

Group of Seven

grout

Guatemalan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

guerrilla art (crop circle making, culture jamming, flash mobs, graffiti, postering, and other subversive art) - See http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Visual_Arts/Thematic/Guerrilla_Art/ is coming soon

guild is coming soon

guilloche

guillotine

gum arabic or gum acacia

gum triganth (medium in student tempera) is coming soon

gunmetals is coming soon

gustatory is coming soon

hammers - See ballpein hammer, bush hammer, claw hammer, mallet

Han

hand, by hand, handicraft, handy is coming soon

handbill - See broadside and pamphlet

hand-over-hand

hand puppet

handscroll
hanging scroll

hardness - See Mohs Scale of Hardness

hardware is coming soon

hardwood

Harlem Renaissance

harmika

harmonic sequence or harmonic series

harmika

harmonious colors

harmony, harmonize, harmonious

hegemeny, non-hegemonic is coming soon

Hermaphrodite See androgyny and androgynous

hermeneutics is coming soon

hermetic is coming soon

herringbone perspective

heterodox and heterodoxy

hexaptych - See polyptych

hidden compartment is coming soon

high gloss is coming soon

Hindu art and Hinduism

historiated

historicism is coming soon

historicity

history painting

holiday art, holyday art is coming soon

African-American

Kwanzaa

American

Columbus Day

Independence Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Day

Thanksgiving

Christian

Christmas

Easter

Halloween

Presidents' Day

St. Patrick's Day

St. Valentine's Day

Islam

Ramadan [?]

Jewish

Chanukah (Hanukah)

Roshoshana [sp?]

home is coming soon

"This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."
John Ruskin (1819-1900), British writer, art critic. Modern Painters (5 volumes, 1843-1860, epilogue, 1888). See art critic.

homogeneity, homogeneous

horologist and horologer

horology

horror vacui

horticulture (?) - See landscape architecture is coming soon

hoso-e

hot glue, hot glue gun, hot-melt glue gun

hot wire cutter

house paint is coming soon, ab expr

humor is coming soon; PLEASE!

hyperlink - See hypermedia

hypermedia

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

hypoactive

hypostyle hall

Icelandic art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

icon

iconocentrism, iconocentric

iconoclasm, iconoclast

iconoduly, iconodulic, iconodule, iconodulist

iconogenetics, iconogenitor

iconography, iconograph, iconographer

iconolagny

iconolatry, iconolater

iconology

iconomachy, iconomach

iconophilia, iconophile

iconophobia, iconophobiac, iconophobic

iconophor, iconophoric, meta-iconophor

idea is coming soon

identity, identification

ideogram

ideology

idiom

idol, idolatry, idolize is coming soon

idyllic is coming soon

I.E.P. - Acronym for Individualized Education Program (IEP)

igneous rock

ikebana

illuminated manuscript - See illumination and manuscript, as in miniatures in medieval illuminated manuscripts

image and imagery

image scanner - See scanner

imagination

imagines

Imagist school (Ed Paschke, etc.) is coming soon

imago - See imagines

imbrication

imitation is coming soon

imitationalism

immutable

impasto

imperforate [philately] is coming soon

impermanence is coming soon

implied

impluvium

impost block

impregnate, as in to put materials into others is coming soon [be careful]

impression

Impressionism . . Americans, Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Morisot

improvise, improvisation is coming soon

incoherence, incoherent

incongruity

inconsistency - See consistency

Index of American Design

India ink or Indian ink

Indian art (art of India)

Indian art (Art of India / East India) [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Indian art (art of Native Americans) See American Indian art

Indian red is coming soon

Indian yellow

indigenous peoples is coming soon

indigo

indirect carving

indirect casting

Individualized Education Program (IEP)

industrial design is coming soon

inert

inflatable

influence is coming soon

infrared is coming soon

infrared reflectography (IR) and reflectogram

initial letter - See historiated

ink

inkblot

inlay

innovate, innovative, innovation is coming soon

inpaint

inquiry is coming soon

inscribe inscription

inscrutability is coming soon

insensitivity - The opposite of sensitivity

insignia is coming soon

in situ

insouciance

inspiration, inspired

installation

instrument, as in scientific instrument is coming soon

insula

intaglio

intarsia

integrity is coming soon [it had better!]

intensity

intention is coming soon

interactive, interactivity is coming soon

intercolumniation

interdisciplinary

interest, interesting

interference (of light) is coming soon

interior design

intermedia - See mixed media or mixed-media

intermediate colors

intermodel - See indirect casting

International Council of Museums (ICOM)

International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA)

International style is coming soon

interpret and interpretation - See meaning

intersect is coming soon

intertextuality

in the round or in-the-round

Intimisme or Intimism

intonaco

intrados

intuition, intuitive is coming soon

invent, invention is coming soon

inventory

invert

investment

Ionic or Ionic order

Iranian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Iraqian art [see artcyclopedia, Islamic art, & Mesopotamian art] is coming soon

iridescence

iris

Irish art [see artcyclopedia & Celtic art] is coming soon

iris print

iron

irony, ironic

irrational is coming soon [for no reason]

irregular is coming soon

Islam and Islamic art, and Islamism

isms and -ism

isocephaly

isometric is coming soon

Israeli art [see artcyclopedia and Jewish art] is coming soon

issue

italic

Italian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Jamaican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

jamb

Janus - see addorsed and ancipital

japan

Japanese art

Japanese mending tissue

jigsaw - See hacksaw

journeyman is coming soon

jury, juried is coming soon

justified type

justify, justification is coming soon

jute is coming soon

juvenilia

juxtapose, juxtaposition

kaolin is coming soon

karat

karma

Kassite art - See Mesopotamian art

keeper

keloid - See scarification

kern and kerning

kiblah - See qiblah

knot is coming soon

Kunstkabinett and Kunstkammer

l. - Abbreviation for liter

label [see caption] is coming soon

lace is coming soon

lamp black is coming soon

landscape

landscape architecture

landscapist is coming soon

lathe is coming soon

Latvian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

lavoro di intarsia - See intarsia

lawyer

layout is coming soon

learn, learning is coming soon

legacy is coming soon

legible, legibility is coming soon

lenticular is coming soon

letterform

letterhead

lettering

letter space and letter spacing

life-size - See full-scale

lift [as in lifting color] is coming soon

ligature

light

lightfast

lightmeter is coming soon

lightness

light perception

light table

likeness - See appropriation, copy, counterfeit, forgery, homage, mirror, representation, simulacrum, and simulation

lime is coming soon

linoleum cut or linocut

literature and art, literary is coming soon

litharge painting

lithography lithograph

Lithuanian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

logo or logogram or logotype

longtitudinal (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)

lookism

loom

loop [as in a video or film loop] is coming soon

loop tool

loot - See destroy, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon

lorem ipsum

lossless compression

lossy compression

lost - See destroy, loot, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon

lost-wax casting

lotiform

loupe is coming soon

loutrophoros is coming soon

Lucite®

luminance is coming soon

Luminism or luminism and luminists

luminosity

luminous - See brilliance, candela, color, light, luminosity, and value

Luxembourgeouis art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

m or m. - Abbreviation for meter

machicolation

macramé

macro- is coming soon

macro-lens is coming soon

magic and magick is coming soon

magic lantern

Magic Realism [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

magic wand tool is coming soon

Magna

magnesium and magnesium carbonate is coming soon

magnification, magnify is coming soon

magnitude

magnum opus

mahlstick

mail art is coming soon

main case - mother mold

maintenance is coming soon

majolica or maiolica

majuscule

makeup - See cosmetic

Maltese art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Manchu

mandala

mandapa

mandated art curriculum

mantel or mantelpiece

marker [see felt-tip] is coming soon

market value or market worth [or see monetary worth or monetary value or price]

marketing art is coming soon

marouflage

marquetry

mars pigments

Marxism and Marxist art criticism is coming soon

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

mathematics and art

matrix [as in a mold for casting] is coming soon

matt or matte - See mat, matt, or matte

maulstick - See mahlstick

measure and measurement

mechanical drawing

mechanical scale

medal

medallion

media - The plural form of medium. Also, may refer to mass media. Also see mixed media

medieval - Refers to the Middle Ages

Melinex® by ICI is coming soon

melting point - See temperature

memento more is coming soon

mentally ill artist is coming soon

mercury gilding - See fire gilding

merlon is coming soon

Meroitic art

mesh

Mesoamerican art

mesolithic - See Stone Age

Mesopotamian art [also see Iraqi art and Islamic art]

meta-cognition or metacognition

metal and metallurgy

metallic lamelia

metalpoint

métamatic and métaméchanique

metamorphic rock

metamorphosis

metaphor

Metaphysical Painting (Pittura Metafisica)

Mexican-American art - See Chicano art / Chicana art, and Mesoamerican art

Mexican art

mezzoprint or mezzotint

mica

micro- is coming soon

microethnography is coming soon

mineral oil is coming soon

mineral spirits

Ming

miniature

Minimalism or minimalism

missing - See destroy, loot, lost, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon

mist (vaporous application, as opposed to dot, line, or wash) - is coming soon

mistake

miter

mitsuda-e

mixed media or mixed-media

mizu-e

ml or ml. - abbreviation for milliliter

mm or mm. - abbreviation for millimeter

mobile

mockup is coming soon

model

modeling or modelling

Modernism or modernism

module

Mohs Scale of Hardness or Mohs Scale

moiré or moire or moir

mo-ku is coming soon

mola

mold [American spelling] or mould [British spelling]

molding [American spelling] or moulding [British spelling]

mold release - See release agent

Momoyama

Mona Lisa is coming soon

monastery

monasticism

monetary worth [or see market value]

money - See numismatics and currency

morgue, picture morgue is coming soon

moriage

morphing - See metamorphosis

motion - See movement.

motion pictures - See cinema

motivation - See achievement, art criticism, effort, encouragement, enthusiasm, goal, interesting, positive reinforcement, praise, readiness, success, and talent

mottle, mottling

mould [British spelling] or mold [American spelling]

mount

movable type

movement (as in motion), or art movement

MPEG

mucilage

mudra

Mughal dynasty or Mugal dynasty

multiple intelligence theory

multisensory

mummy is coming soon [from the tomb to your desk]

Munich Secession - See secession

Munsell system is coming soon

museum curator - See curator

museum director - See director

museum docent - See docent

museum preparator - See preparator

museum registrar - See registrar

music

musical instrument is coming soon

mutable

mutule

Mylar® by DuPont is coming soon

mystery

mystical is coming soon

myth

mythology

NAAO or National Association of Artists' Organizations

Nabis

NAEA - See National Art Education Association (NAEA)

NAIA or National Association of Independent Artists

naif, naïf - See naive art

nail, sizes of common nails, sizes of finishing nails

naive art or naïve art

namban

name and naming is coming soon

naming (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)

naos - See cella

National Art Education Association (NAEA)

National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO)

National Association of Independent Artists (NAIA)

National Education Association (NEA)

local: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and remote: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

local: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and remote: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Native American art or American Indian art

native graphics is coming soon

Naturalism or naturalism

nature

nave

Nazarenes is coming soon

N.E.A. - See National Education Association (NEA) and local: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and remote: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

necking

necropolis

needle file

needlepoint is coming soon

negative

negative space

N.E.H - local: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and remote: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

neoclassicism or Neoclassicism

neo-Dada - See Pop Art

Neo-Expressionism

Neo-Geo

neo-impressionism or Neo-Impressionism

Neolithic - The New Stone Age

neomannerism is coming soon

neon and neon tubing is coming soon

Neo-Plasticism

Netherlandish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

New York school - See Abstract Expressionism

New Zealand art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

nib

Nicaraguan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

night blindness, nyctalopia

nihilism, nihilistic is coming soon

nomenclator and nomenclature

nonagon

nonferrous

nonfinito is coming soon

nonobjective art

Northern and Southern Dynasties

Northern Renaissance art

Norwegian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

nostalgia

nostril is coming soon

nothing and nothingness

notoriety is coming soon

nuance

nude

Nuit Américaine - See day for night

numbered

numismatics and currency

nut [and bolt] is coming soon

nyctalopia, night blindness

objectify and objectification

Oceanian [Oceanic?] art is coming soon

offset printing, offset lithography

ogee

ogive

oil

oil crayon is coming soon

olla is coming soon

one-point perspective

online art or online-art

ophthalmology, ophthalmologist

optic nerve is coming soon

optometry, optometrist is coming soon

opulence, opulent is coming soon

orange is coming soon

order

organic

orichalcum

orientalism or Orientalism

orthodox and orthodoxy

outsider art and outsiders

oval

ovate - See ovoid

overglaze

overhead projector is coming soon

ox gall, oxgall or ox-gall

package, packaging [including packing art]

paint-by-number or paint by number

painter is coming soon

painterly

painting

paisley

Pakistani art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

pale

Paleolithic - The Old Stone Age

Palestinian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

pan, panning shot is coming soon

panache

panel

panoptic, panopticon [cite red-light camera photos] is coming soon

panorama

pantheon

pantograph

Pantone Matching System (PMS)

paper

paper cutter is coming soon

papermaking

papier-collé

papier-mâché
papier mâché

paradox is coming soon

paraffin
paraffin wax

parapet is coming soon

Parthian art - See Mesopotamian art

parting agent or parting compound - See release agent

passage

passage grave

passe-partout

passion is coming soon [high time it did!]

paste - See adhesives

patina, patinate, patination

patio

patriarchy and patriarchal

patrimony (cultural patrimony) is coming soon

pavement is coming soon

pearl is coming soon

peep-show is coming soon [!]

peg [as in joining] is coming soon

People's Republic of China

peplos

percept

perception and perceive

Perceptual Abstraction - See Op Art

perfection

perforate is coming soon

periodic, periodicity

permanence, permanent

permanent collection

permanent pigment

perpendicular

Persian art - See Mesopotamian art and Islamic art [also artcyclopedia and Iranian art]

persistence of vision

personification

perspective

Perspex® is coming soon

perspicacious

perspicuous

Peruvian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

pestle

petroglyph

petroleum jelly is coming soon

pewter

phallic is coming soon

phenomenology

phenomenon

phiale

philately, postage stamp

philluminist

philosophy and art is coming soon

photogene - See afterimage

photogenic is coming soon

photogram

photograph and photo - See photography

photographic

photography, photograph

photogravure

photojournalism is coming soon

photomechanical graphic

photomontage

photon

Photo-Realism or photorealism

photoreceptors

Photo-Secession

photosensitive is coming soon

Photoshop

photoscreen

photostat is coming soon

piano nobile

pica

picassiette - See pique assiette

pick

pickle

PICT

pictogram - See pictograph

pictograph

picture

picture morgue - See morgue

picture plane

picturesque

piebald

pie chart - See graph.

piece

piece mold

pie chart - See graph

pied de biche

pier

piercing, body piercing is coming soon

pillage (steal, plunder) is coming soon

pipe cleaner, stem is coming soon

pique assiette (also called picassiette)

piracy, pirated [illegally copying, copied] is coming soon

pitch

pitcher or pitching hammer or pitching tool

plaid [tartan] is coming soon

plait, plaiting is coming soon

plastalene is coming soon

plaster
or plaster of Paris

plaster trap

plastic

plastic art and plastic arts

Plasticine®

plasticity or plastic quality

plate

platinum

platinum print is coming soon

play and playfulness is coming soon

pleat

plein air or en plein air

plumbago - See graphite

plunder - See destroy, illicit, loot, lost, missing, patrimony (cultural patrimony), plunder, provenance, restitution, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon

pluralism

plywood is coming soon

pneumosparklyosis

pochade

pochoir

poetry, poetic, poetry and art is coming soon

point

pointillism

pointing and pointing machine

point of view

poison

polariscope is coming soon

polarizing

polemic is coming soon

polish

Polish art

political correctness, politically correct (PC)

politics and art, political art is coming soon

polychromy, polychrome

polyvalent

polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

pontil

Pop Art

popular culture

popup or pop-up is coming soon

porcelain

pornography

porous is coming soon

porphyry

portal

porte-cochere is coming soon

portfolio

portico

Portland cement - See cement

portrait

portraitist is coming soon

Portuguese art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

pose is coming soon

position is coming soon

positive

positive reinforcement is coming soon

posthumous, posthumously

post-impressionism or Post-Impressionism
Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Post-Minimalism

postmodernism or Postmodernism

post-painterly abstraction is coming soon

practitioner research - See action research

Prairie style or Prairie school

praise

Praxis

Precisionism or precisionism

Pre-Columbian art

precursor

predella

prehistoric - See Stone Age

preliminary is coming soon

premise

preparator

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

preschematic stage

preservation is coming soon

press is coming soon

press molding

pretentious

pretty

price - See market value or market worth or monetary worth or monetary value

prick, pricked is coming soon

primal is coming soon

primary colors

primer

primitive

principles of design or principles of art

print, prints, printmaking, printing [not lettering]

prism

prismatoid

privilege [v], privileging [used in place of favoring] is coming soon

problem

problematize is coming soon

process

produce, product, production, productivity is coming soon

profile

program

project is coming soon

projection and projector

projection principle

prolific is coming soon

Prometheus and Promethean

pronaos

proof

prop, [short for] property is coming soon

prosopopeia - See personification

prostyle

protanomaly, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

protanopia, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

proto- [as in proto-modern, ] is coming soon

prototype

protractor

provenance - also see destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft

prude, prudery, prudish, prudishness is coming soon

Prussian blue

psalter

pseudonym

pseudorealistic stage

psyker

pt. - Abbreviation for pint

public art

publicity

Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)

publish, publisher, plublication is coming soon

puce

puddling

Puerto Rican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

punk [as in punk house, punk rock, etc.] is coming soon

punty

pupil of the eye

puppet, puppeteer, puppetry

Purism is coming soon, lipchitz & ozenfant @ tate

puzzle / picture puzzle is coming soon

Qi - See Northern and Southern Dynasties

Qin - See Quin

Qing

qt. - Abbreviation for quart

quadrant vault - See vault

quilt is coming soon

quirky is coming soon

quoin

quotations

® - See trademark

RA - See Resettlement Administration (RA)

RA - See Royal Academy or Royal Academy of Arts (RA)

rabbet

rabbit skin

radial, radiate and radial balance

radiate - See ray

radiograph

radius

raffia

rag (see cleaning, paper, and watercolor) is coming soon

rainbow is coming soon, Knight @ tate

raising

raisonné - See catalogue raisonné

raster image - See bit-mapped image

rathas

ratio - See Golden Mean and proportion

raytracer, raytracing is coming soon

reaction, reactionary is coming soon

readability

readiness (see motivation) is coming soon

reconstruct, reconstruction is coming soon

recover, recovery - See destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, steal/stolen, theft is coming soon

recreation

rectangle
rectangular

rectilinear and rectilineal

recto

recycling and art is coming soon

red-figure

reduce, reduction, reductive is coming soon. example hepworth, tate

reduction firing

reed

reed pen is coming soon

reflected color

reflection and reflected image

Regionalism or regionalism

religion and art is coming soon

reline, relined canvas is coming soon

reliquary

remarque

remodel is coming soon

Renaissance (early Renaissance and later Renaissance)

represent and representation

reproduction reproduce

Republic of China

research

reserve column

Resettlement Administration (RA)

resin

resist

resolution, image or
image resolution

resolution, output

resonance

respond

restitution is coming soon

restoration, restored - See art restoration

revise, revision is coming soon

revival is coming soon

rework is coming soon

RGB (red green blue)

rhetoric is coming soon

ribbed vault - See vault

ritual, ritualistic is coming soon

rivet and riveting

robot, robotic is coming soon

rocaille

rock crystal is coming soon

Rococo

rod, rods and cones

rodding

roentgen rays - See x-ray or X-ray or x ray or X ray

Roll-a-Tex is coming soon

roller is coming soon

Roman or roman

Roman art

Romanesque

Romanian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Romanitas

Romanticism

rondel or roundel or rondelle

rondo - See tondo

room is coming soon

Rorschach test

rosette

rose window

rosin is coming soon See resin and paper

rotoscoping is coming soon

rough is coming soon

rondel - See rondel or roundel or rondelle

round, sculpture in the

roving

Royal Academy or Royal Academy of Arts (RA)

rub is coming soon

rubber is coming soon

rubbing - See abrasive and frottage

rubbing compound

Rube Goldberg

Rubénisme

rubric is coming soon

ruin is coming soon

ruler is coming soon

saber saw is coming soon

sacrid, sacrilege, sacrilegious is coming soon

safety - See Art & Craft Materials Institute (ACMI), flammable, hazardous, Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), and toxic

salon

Salon or Paris Salon or Salon d'Apollon

Salon d'Automne

Salon des Indépendants

Salon des Refusés

Samian pottery - See terra sigillata

sand casting or sand molding

sand painting is coming soon

sandpaper is coming soon

sapwood - See heartwood

sarcophagus

S.A.S.E.

sash clamp

satinato - See semi-matt

satire

saturation

satyr

saws - See circular saw, coping, crosscut saw, hacksaw, jig, miter, ripsaw, saber saw,

scaffold [img: d rivera] is coming soon

scagliola - See stucco

scale

scaling board is coming soon

scaling up

scanner

scanning - See image capture or scanner

scarab

scarification

scatalogical is coming soon

scattered rays of light is coming soon

schematic, schematized is coming soon

schematic stage

schist

scholars' rocks - See Japanese suiseki or Chinese scholars' rocks

school

school of Burgundy - See Burgundy, school of and Gothic

scrapbook, scrapbooking, scrapbooker is coming soon

scraper

scratch is coming soon

screen

screenprint - See silkscreen and prints and printmaking

screenshot - See screen

screw, screwdriver is coming soon

scrimshaw is coming soon

script is coming soon

sculptural space is coming soon

secco is coming soon

Second Empire is coming soon

section

Section of Fine Arts (SFA) - See Section of Painting and Sculpture (SPS)

Section of Painting and Sculpture (SPS)

secular humanism

secularism - See secular humanism

security (guards, alarms, locks, etc.) is coming soon

sedimentary rock

see or seeing or sight

Segantini stitch

seicento

self-instructed artist, self-instruction is coming soon

self-portrait

self-taught, self-taught artist is coming soon

selvage is coming soon

semicircle, semicircular is coming soon

semi-gloss

semi-matt

seminal

semiotic or semiotics

Sengoku Jidai

sensation is coming soon

Sensation Show [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

sense or senses

sensitivity

sensorial and sensory

sensorium

sensuality

sentiment, sentimental, sentimentality

Serbian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

serdab

series is coming soon

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

shabtis - See ushabtis

shadow show

shawabtis - See ushabtis

sheen

sheet materials

sheet metal

shell is coming soon

shellac

sherd - See shard. Also see potsherd or potshard

shot is coming soon

shutter, shutter speed

side loading

sienna

sight or see or seeing or eyes

sign, signify, significant

signage

signature, signed and unsigned

sikhara

silenos

silex is coming soon

silhouette

silica, silicate, and silicon

silicone rubber

silk is coming soon

silkscreen or silk-screen or screenprint

siltstone

silver

silver leaf

silverpoint or silver point

site-specific - See installation

Situationist International is coming soon

Siva - See Shiva or Siva

Six Dynasties

size

sizing

skepticism is coming soon

sketch

sketchbook is coming soon

skill is coming soon

skin is coming soon

skull is coming soon see http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=8512

slump mold - See drape mold

social realism or Social Realism

socialist realism or Socialist Realism

social studies and art is coming soon

socle

soda-straw effect [see field] is coming soon

soffit

soft focus

software is coming soon

sound - See auditory

Southern Dynasties - See Northern and Southern Dynasties period of Chinese art

special effects is coming soon

special exhibition

specifications

specific objects

spectacle is coming soon

spectator is coming soon

spectrum

speculate, speculation is coming soon

sphere

spheroid

sphinx

spin is coming soon

spiral - See helix and volute

spit bit is coming soon

sponge is coming soon

spontaneity, spontaneous

springing

sprue

square

square schematization

stage (as in stagecraft, drama, theater) is coming soon

Stages of Artistic Development - Victor Lowenfeld described several Stages of Artistic Development in children's art. These are:

1 . scribble stage,
2 . preschematic stage (4-6)
3 . schematic stage (6-9)
4 . dawning realism stage (9-11)
5 . pseudorealistic stage (11-13)

stain and stain removal

stained glass

stainless steel - See steel

stamp

stanchion is coming soon

standards

staple, staplegun, stapler

state

stationery

statue, statuette, and statuary

stave

steal, stolen - See destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, theft is coming soon

Stendhal syndrome or Stendhal's syndrome

stereometry

stereogram, stereopticon, stereoscope is coming soon

stereoscopic vision

stereotype

sterling [on its own, or within silver: sterling]

stigma, stigmatize, stigmas and stigmata is [or are] coming soon

still life or still-life

stilt is coming soon

stimulate, stimulus, stimulation

stipple and stipple brush

stitch is coming soon

stretcher and stretch [as in to stretch canvas is coming soon ]

striation is coming soon

structuralism

structure, structural

Structurist

stucco

student is coming soon

studio

study

stump or stomp

stupa - See Buddhist art and Buddhism

subconscious [compare to unconscious] is coming soon

subculture is coming soon

subjectivity

sublime

subliminal message or subliminal advertising

subsampling

subtle, subtlety is coming soon

subtraction and subtractive

success

suffuse

sugarlift is coming soon

Sui

suiseki

suki

Sumerian art - See Mesopotamian art

sumi-e

Sung

superficial

Superrealism - Another name for photorealism

superscription (titulus) is coming soon

suppedaneum

support

Suprematism is coming soon, malevich@tate

surface

surform

surimono

surmoulage [sculpture term, exmpl in art deco] - French for mould; moulage is a moulding is coming soon

Surrealism or surrealism

surrogate image

suyari

swastika is coming soon

swatch

Swedish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

symmetry or symmetrical balance

Synchromism

syncretism

synecdoche is coming soon

synergy

synesthesia or synaesthesia

Synthetic Cubism - See Cubism

T. - Abbreviation for tablespoon

t. - Abbreviation for teaspoon

tabernacle is coming soon

tableau vivant

tablespoon

tablet

taboo is coming soon

taboret is coming soon

tackiness, tacky is coming soon

tactile

tactile defensiveness

T'ang or Tang

Taoism and Taoist art is coming soon - See feng shui

tape is coming soon

telephoto, telephoto lens, and telephoto shot

telescope, telescopic lens

temper

tempera

temperament [see artistic temperament and bias] is coming soon

temperature

temperature key

template

temple is coming soon

temporal art - See body art, music, dance, performance art

temporary is coming soon

Ten American Painters or The Ten

tendentious

tenebroso or tenebrism

terra cotta or terracotta or terra-cotta

terra cruda

terra sigillata

tertiary colors - See intermediate colors

theater, theatre, theatrical

theft - See destroy, loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen is coming soon

thickness - See depth, dimension, height, measure, space, and width

thinner, thinning, paint thinner is coming soon

thumbnail sketch or thumbnail image

thymol

Tibetan art is coming soon

tomb is coming soon

ton, tonne is coming soon

tongs is coming soon

topography or topographical

torch is coming soon

torchon

toreutics

torii

torsi - A plural of torso

torso

tortillon

tortoiseshell or tortoise-shell or tortoise shell

total work of art - See universal artwork.

touch is coming soon

toy is coming soon

trace, tracing, and tracing paper

tracking shot

trademark (® or ™)

tradigital

tradition and traditional

transform, transformation

transgressive art

translate is coming soon

translucent

transparency

transparent

transporting art is coming soon

transverse is coming soon

trefoil is coming soon

trencadis

trend, trendy is coming soon

triad

triangle

tribal arts is coming soon

tricesimo-segundo

trident

trifold - See brochure is coming soon

triforium

triglyph

trim is coming soon

tripod is coming soon

tripoli is coming soon

trophy is coming soon

tunic is coming soon

tunnel - See vault

Turkish art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

turning

turpentine

turps - See turpentine

turquoise is coming soon

two-point perspective

Tyvek is coming soon

Ukranian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

umber is coming soon

underglaze is coming soon

underpainting

understand, understanding is coming soon! "The one who understands ... becomes himself a participant in the dialogue." Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975), Russian linguistic philosopher, Toward a Methodology of the Human Sciences.

UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property of 1970

unfinished is coming soon! [michelangelo slaves]

UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects of 1995

unique

United States of America, art of the - See American art

United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA)

unity

universal artwork

unpack

unsigned - See signature, signed and unsigned

upholster, upholsterer, and upholstery

uppercase

urethane - See polyurethane

ureus is coming soon: egyptian cobra symbol of royalty, louvre

URL

Uruguayan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

urushi-e

ushabtis

utility, utilitarian is coming soon

vandal, Vandals, vandalism, and vandalize

vanishing point

vanitas and vanity

variable edition (VE) is coming soon

variation, various, vary

velvet is coming soon

veneer

Venezuelan art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

version is coming soon

verso

vertex

vertical

Very Special Arts - The former name of VSA arts

video game is coming soon

Vienna Secession - See secession

Vietnamese art

viewer

viewfinder

viewing stones - See suiseki

viewpoint is coming soon

vignette

vinyl is coming soon

violet is coming soon

visible, visibility is coming soon

vision - See sight or see or seeing

visual art, visual arts is coming soon

visual stimulus is coming soon

vivid is coming soon

V-tool is coming soon

water miscible oil paints is coming soon

wave is coming soon

weal - See scarification

weaving

Web - See World Wide Web (WWW)

weight - See gram, decagram, karat, kilogram, measurement, paper, pound, ounce, stone, and ton

weight shift - See contrapposto.

welding

Weltanschauung - See world-view or worldview (pr. velt"on-shou'eng)

Bay Area / West Coast figuration [see San Fran...] is coming soon

Western Art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Western Jin Dynasty

wet-and-dry paper

wet collodion - See collodion wet plate

wet-on-dry is coming soon

wet-on-wet is coming soon

wetting agent

wheel window - See rose window

whirligig

white is coming soon

white lead

white spirits - See mineral spirits

whiting

wicker - See rattan and rush

wide-angle, wide-angle lens, wide-angle shot

width

wildlife art [see animalia, artcyclopedia, & nature] is coming soon

wipe is coming soon

wire

wireframe

wisdom is coming soon [couldn't be too soon!]

women's art - See feminism and feminist art and gender issues

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

wood, timber

woodblock print, woodcut

wood engraving

woof

wool is coming soon

work-in-progress is coming soon

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

world-view or worldview

World Wide Web (WWW)

worm's-eye view

wove paper

wrench is coming soon

writing

wrought iron

Wunderkabinett and Wunderkammer

WYSIWYG

X-acto knife is coming soon

xanthic or xanthine

xenophilia

xenophobia

xerography

x-ray or X-ray or x ray or X ray

xylene

xylography

YAM - See Youth Art Month (YAM)

yard

yard art - See The Yard Art Project - http://www.literate-lemur.com/yard_art_project
Features photo galleries of art found in yards, gardens, and similar outdoor spaces. Invites submissions of yard art photos for possible online exhibition.

yasti

Yayoi

yd. - Abbreviation for yard

yellow is coming soon

yellowing

yin and yang is coming soon

Young British Artists (YBAs) is coming soon

Youth Art Month (YAM)

Yuan dynasty

Yugoslavian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

zeitgeist or Zeitgeist

Zen