Introduction How to use this book Movements Minoan art -- Mycenaean art ancient Roman art -- Romanesque art Byzantine -- Gothic Tang Dynasty art -- Song Dynasty art Early Renaissance -- High Renaissance Renaissance -- Mannerism Baroque -- Rococo Romanticism -- Realism Impressionism -- Post-Impressionism Primitive art -- Naïve art Ukiyo-e -- Cloisonnism Japonisme -- Orientalism Expressionism -- Abstract Expressionism Art Nouveau -- Art Deco Modernism -- Postmodernism Cubism -- Futurism Suprematism -- Constructivism De Stijl -- Bauhaus Dada -- Surrealism Action Painting -- Colour Field Pop art -- Op art graffiti -- street art Photorealism -- Hyperrealism Modern art -- Contemporary art Techniques art -- design line -- mark sketching -- drawing modelling -- carving shadow -- tone fresco -- mural buon fresco -- fresco secco triptych -- diptych chiaroscuro -- sfumato woodcut -- etching bas-relief -- high relief drypoint -- engraving atmospheric perspective -- linear perspective grisaille -- underpainting sculpture -- installation distortion -- foreshortening scumbling -- glazing screenprinting -- lithography photography -- photomontage contrast -- unity observation -- imagination pointillism -- stippling dry brushing -- sgraffito impasto -- imprimatura assemblage -- collage plein-air painting -- studio painting trompe l'oeil -- verisimilitude Materials symmetry -- asymmetry paint -- pigment charcoal -- pencil chalk pastel -- oil pastel tapestry -- embroidery mosaic -- tilework tempera -- encaustic watercolour -- gouache acrylic paint -- oil paint Concepts subject -- theme abstract -- figurative Fibonacci sequence -- golden ratio creativity -- innovation symbolism -- allegory history painting -- genre painting still life -- life drawing negative space -- positive shapes Land art -- landscape architecture landscape -- panorama picturesque -- Grand Manner warm colours -- cool colours primary colours -- complementary colours sublime -- beauty post-colonial art -- decolonization Movers & shakers Index Notes & image credits.