Tate glossary definition for conversation piece: Informal group portrait, small in scale, showing people – often families, sometimes groups of friends – in domestic interior or garden settings
to paint portraits of the royal family and their courtiers Grand manner
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buildings, typically using spray paint Learn more Art Term Grand manner
Tate glossary definition for figurative art: Any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure
abstraction in modern art but which continues to represent things in a realistic manner
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buildings, typically using spray paint Learn more Art Term Grand manner
Tate glossary definition for impasto: An area of thick paint, or texture, in a painting
Painterly refers to the application of paint in a ‚loose‘ or less than controlled manner
Tate glossary definition for history painting: Seventeenth century term describing paintings with subject matter drawn from classical history, mythology, and the Bible – also used in the eighteenth century to refer to more recent historical subjects
Narrative Narrative art is art that tells a story Grand manner
Artist page for E. Box (1919–1988)
a British artist who painted religious scenes often in a highly stylised, naive manner
Artist page for Krsto Hegedusic (1901–1975)
His most famous paintings depict the harsh life of the Croatian peasantry in the manner
‘Abel Moysey‘, Thomas Gainsborough, c.1764
Needham, 10th Viscount Kilmorey Thomas Gainsborough c.1768 Mrs Sarah Walker Manner
‘The Midsummer Night’s Fairies‘, Robert Huskisson, exhibited 1847
Procession Richard Parkes Bonington exhibited 1828 Landscape in Normandy Manner
