Art terms
Learn about the materials, techniques, movements, and themes of modern and contemporary art from around the world.
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Happenings
Emerging from the live performances and spectacles of Dada and Surrealism, Happenings were events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Allan Kaprow coined the term when he used it in the title of his 1959 work 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, which called for the audience to carry out specific actions in an environment he staged. Happenings were the forerunners of performance art, in which the focus shifted away from audience participation and increasingly toward the actions of the artist.
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Harlem Renaissance
A period of African American literary, artistic, and intellectual activity centered in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, spanning from the 1920s to the mid-1930s. Considered one of the most significant periods of cultural production in US history, the Harlem Renaissance fostered a new African American cultural identity.
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Hologram
A three-dimensional image that results when recordings of two waveforms of a light source (such as a light beam) are superimposed.
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Hue
A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint. Hue can also simply mean “color.”
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