Fine Art Discussions

Abbie Shores

I am placing this on the FAQ so that people can just find immediately any they would like to read when they want to read them. Also it means I dont have to keep trying to find every thread to update the list of 'What Is' threads.

Thanks for understanding the need for this post.

Please feel free to add below the name of something you would like me to add to it and I will have a look to see what I can do.


Ok... So far we have up......

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'What is' ART posts;

WHAT IS - Alla Prima
WHAT IS - Bioart
WHAT IS - Contemporary Art
WHAT IS - Colour Field Painting
WHAT IS - Colourist Painting
WHAT IS - Dada
WHAT IS - En Plein Air
WHAT IS - Expressionism
WHAT IS - Fauvism
WHAT IS - Figurative Art
WHAT IS - Genre Painting
WHAT IS - Impressionism
WHAT IS - Italian Renaissance
WHAT IS - Landscape Art
WHAT IS - Orotone
WHAT IS - Outsider Art
WHAT IS - Pop Art
WHAT IS - Still Life
WHAT IS - Stuckism
WHAT IS - Surrealism
WHAT IS - Naive Art


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What is MISCELLANEOUS Posts

WHAT IS - Affiliation
WHAT IS - Hotlinking
WHAT IS - IP address
WHAT IS - Swift & Iban
WHAT IS - Derivative Works
What Is - Transformative Works – Purpose And Use

Vivian ANDERSON

So far so good, Beth and thanks for organising these subjects, wish I could add one, shall give it some thought. Vivian Of course you could touch on all the 'isms and have an endless list: how about Fauve? A strange 'ism for sure .

Abbie Shores

LOL yes :)

TerryAnne Groehler

is this index art?

Anne Duke

Could you tell me where "what is stumbleupon?" can be found. Did I miss it on stickies?

Maria Gilbert

Hi Beth. Yes please. Can you do one on (cap C) Colourists, (as in Scottish, Peploe et al) cos I've noticed (not here) that there is often confusion surrounding the proper use of that one in the UK. Cheers.

Yours pedantically

Abbie Shores

Anne, try this post This Stumbleupon Thing..?? Is There A How To For Dummies?? Lol

Yes Maria, will do that next for you.

Michael TMAD Finney

to bad you couldnt add emotionism to the index

Abbie Shores

If I do a 'what is' on it then it will be added :)

Charles Peck

I suppose adding "Art History" to "what is" might scare off folks not used thinking of history as a love story..........

Michael TMAD Finney

if you need explanation and videos just let me know.. i have also invited a couple of artists from other sites i have met and have joined the emotionist movement to join FAA.. they are really good.. moom from poland and anjana from, a place i can not pronounce..lol..but let me know

Abbie Shores

Thanks Michael I should be ok. :)

Charles I was going to add History to it but, as you said, I actually thought it may scare some people off and so stuck with 'What is' :)

Maria Gilbert

A piece on art history might clarify whether one can or cannot be a member of an artistic movement that has been defunct for (say) more than a hundred years, which had a specific agenda pertinent to its members or to the age, ie. can one actually be a Fauve or can one only paint in a Fauve-like manner?.
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Charles Peck

Maria, even the Fauvists had variation in their particular manners of painting and could easily be recognized one from another. I personally see no reason one can't adopt the "program" with enough research to further the studies of a particular way of seeing and painting...but take the case of Impressionism. Creating a painting that has the appearance of Impressionism while sitting in one's comfortable, dial-a-temperature, cozy studio with fake sunlight bulbs looking at a photograph (and then of some place one has never been - even worse) is not being an "Impressionist" by any stretch of the imagination. It is an carnival act creating bogus goods that only look like Impressionism to the unsophisticated eye.

Impressionism is done outside in real life looking at real things in real time in real weather looking deeply at the color games as sunlight interacts with various substances.

Paul Anderson

Beth, if you are looking for suggestions...here is one of my favored... What is Outsider Art? :)

Abbie Shores

I only just remembered this outsider art. I AM SO SORRY!!!

Doing a thread now if I find enough detail