Art History Words and Terms Beginning With G

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque exhibited their Cubist works exclusively in Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler's gallery from 1908 to 1914.

Genre - typically immediately followed by the word "painting" - is most frequently used in art to mean "a scene of everyday life."

A noun to describe a style that features images reduced to simple outlines and shapes, often based on basic geometric forms.

Abstract artworks that emphasize the process of or gesture in the creative act through various techniques of application, including dripping, smearing and flinging paint.

Used as a noun (even though the word is actually the feminine past participle of a verb), giclée refers to a type of art print created by spraying.

Golden Ratio is a term (with an astounding number of aliases) used to describe aesthetically pleasing proportioning within a piece.

A term used in ceramics, greenware is clay that is mostly dry ("leather hard"), but has not yet been fired.

Monochromatic painting done entirely in shades of gray, not unlike a black and white photograph.