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noun
Any of many styles of art having an underlying philosophy or goal; many of them have names with an -ism suffix.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: art, arts
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a group of artists who agree on general principles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: artistic movement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: movement, social movement, front
Narrower terms: Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Ash Can, Ashcan school, Impressionism, Pop Art, Eight, pointillism, deco, art deco, art nouveau, avant-garde, vanguard, van, new wave, constructivism, suprematism, cubism, dada, dadaism, expressionism, fauvism, futurism, Hudson River school, romantic realism, imagism, lake poets, luminism, minimalism, minimal art, reductivism, naturalism, realism, neoromanticism, Nouvelle Vague, secession, sezession, surrealism, symbolism
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