Glossary
- Bourgeoisie
- The ruling class in capitalist societies that owns the means of production through which it exploits its working class.
- Fresco
- The art or technique of painting on a moist plaster surface with colours ground in either water or a limewater mixture.
- Grisaille
- A monochromatic painting in shades of grey.
- Iconography
- The analysis of subject matter and meaning in the visual arts.
- Marxism
- The system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx in the nineteenth century that posits class struggle as the motor of human history.
- Modernism
- A type of painting or sculpture produced from the late-nineteenth century onwards that emphasises the formal components of the work of art over and above what is actually represented in terms of subject matter.
- Mural
- A large picture painted or affixed directly on to a wall or ceiling.
- Nationalism
- The assertion of the interests of one nation over and above the interests of others or the common interests of all nations.
- Pan-Americanism
- The advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central and South America.
- Realism
- A style of painting and sculpture pioneed in the mid-nineteenth century France in which figures and scenes are depicted as they might be experienced in everyday life.