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Composition (visual arts)
Composition (visual arts): the arrangement of elements of art within a work, using rule of thirds, focal point, balance, rhythm, scale, and negative space to direct the eye and shape meaning; distinct from musical composition and Kandinsky's Composition series.
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue
Composition with large red plane, yellow, black, gray and blue (Compositie met groot rood vlak) is a 59.5 x 59.5 cm 1921 oil painting by Piet Mondrian at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, with edge-stopping lines, non-primary colors and Joosten number B130.
Computer animation
Computer animation creates the illusion of motion with computer-generated frames; also called CGI animation. Spans 1960s research, keyframe interpolation (Hunger, 1974), Pixar's Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature film.
Concept art
Concept art, or concept artwork, is exploratory visual work that helps film, animation, and game teams test characters, environments, and designs before committing to final assets.
Conceptual photography
Conceptual photography is photography in which the idea or concept behind the work matters more than the image's aesthetic or documentary qualities, emerging with Conceptual Art in the mid-1960s.
Concrete art in Brazil
Concrete art in Brazil (concretismo) was a 1950s geometric abstract movement treating art as a concrete object, led by São Paulo's Ruptura group and Rio's Grupo Frente.
Condition Report
Condition Report is a 2000 diptych by American artist Glenn Ligon reproducing his 1988 painting Untitled (I Am a Man), one panel annotated by a conservator.
Confucius Temple Stele
The Confucius Temple Stele (Kongzi miaotang bei, 孔子庙堂碑) is a Tang-dynasty stele of 633 written by Yu Shinan, destroyed by fire and surviving only through recarvings.
Cong
The cong (琮, jade cong) is a Chinese jade tube with a square outer profile and circular bore, first made by the Liangzhu culture around 3300–2250 BCE.
Connoisseur
Connoisseur: an expert judge of quality in art, food, or drink, from French conoistre 'to know' (English 1714). In art history, connoisseurship is stylistic attribution, now combined with provenance and technical analysis.
Constant Permeke
Constant Permeke (1886–1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor, the leading representative of Flemish Expressionism, best known for monumental, dark-toned images of fishermen, farmers, and the Flemish coast.
Constantin Brâncuși
Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957), Romanian-born Paris sculptor, pioneer of modern abstract sculpture; known for Sleeping Muse, The Kiss, Bird in Space, direct carving, and the Târgu Jiu monumental ensemble.
Constantin Meunier
Constantin Meunier (1831–1905) was a Belgian painter and sculptor who made the industrial worker, the miner, and the dockhand central subjects of modern art, culminating in his Monument to Labour in Brussels.
Constructivism (art)
Constructivism (Конструктивизм) was a Russian avant-garde art movement of the late 1910s and 1920s, led by Tatlin and Rodchenko, that rejected easel painting and recast the artist as an engineer producing utilitarian design, architecture, and graphics for the new Soviet state.
Constructivist graphic design
Constructivist graphic design is the posters, books, and typography of the Russian Constructivist movement (1915 to mid-1930s), known for geometric abstraction, photomontage, diagonal type, and a red-and-black palette.
Constructivist photography
Constructivist photography was a photographic movement within Soviet Russian Constructivism of the 1920s and early 1930s, led by Aleksandr Rodchenko, that used the camera and photomontage to reorganize perception.
Contemporary art
Contemporary art: art of the present and recent past, roughly 1980 to today (sometimes from ca. 1960-1970); defined by period not style, spanning video, performance, installation, institutional critique, biennials, and the global art market.
Contemporary ink abstraction
Contemporary ink abstraction (抽象水墨), also called experimental ink (实验水墨), is a current in Chinese contemporary art that uses traditional ink materials to make abstract, non-representational work.
Contrapposto
Contrapposto (Italian, "counterpose"): classical standing pose with weight on one leg, hips and shoulders tilting oppositely in an S-curve. Invented in 5th-century BCE Greece (Doryphoros), revived by Donatello and Michelangelo in the Renaissance.
Copán stelae
The Copán stelae are carved stone monuments, mostly portraits of Maya kings, erected at the city of Copán in western Honduras between the 5th and 9th centuries CE.
Coptic icons
Coptic icons are sacred painted images of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints made for the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, usually on wooden panels.
Coptic textiles
Coptic textiles are the decorated woven fabrics of Egypt from roughly the 3rd to the 12th century, tapestry work on linen preserved in dry burials.
Coral Castle
Coral Castle (Rock Gate), Homestead, Florida: a sculpture garden of over 1,100 tons of oolitic limestone built alone by Latvian immigrant Edward Leedskalnin from 1923 to 1951, with a finger-turnable nine-ton gate, Polaris telescope, and sundial.
Cordoba Umayyad art
Cordoba Umayyad art is the architecture and decorative art produced under the Umayyad dynasty of al-Andalus, the Islamic state centered on Córdoba in southern Spain between 756 and 1031.
Corel Painter
Corel Painter (Fractal Design Painter) is professional digital painting software for Windows and macOS simulating traditional media, debuted August 6, 1991 at Macworld Boston; latest release is Painter 2023 with Fluid Paint technology.
Coromandel screen
A Coromandel screen is a large Chinese folding screen made with kuancai lacquer, carved and filled with colored pigments, exported to Europe via India's Coromandel coast.
Coronation Chair
The Coronation Chair, also known as King Edward's Chair, is the oak throne at Westminster Abbey where British monarchs sit for coronation, in use since 1308.
Coronation Egg
The Coronation Egg is an 1897 Imperial Fabergé egg made in Saint Petersburg, gifted by Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, with a miniature coronation carriage inside.
Coronation Spoon
The Coronation Spoon is a 12th-century silver-gilt spoon that holds holy oil during the anointing of the British sovereign, and the only medieval item of regalia to survive.
Corporate identity
Corporate identity, also known as corporate image, is how an organization's personality is expressed in concrete form, with the name, logo, and slogan forming the core identity triplet.