Glossary of art terms
Explore definitions and selected portraits from the Gallery's Collections in relation to over 140 different terms in this glossary of medium and support relating to painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and photography.
Painting
Acrylic
Airbrush
Brush
Canvas
Cardboard
Diptych
Enamel
Gesso
Gilding
Glaze
Grisaille
Ground
Hardboard
Impasto
Linen
Millboard
Miniature
Mixed media
Oil
Palette
Palette knife
Panel
Pigment
Plywood
Polychromy
Polyptych
Stencil
Stipple
Tempera
Triptych
Photography
Albumen print
Ambrotype
Autochrome
Bromesco
Bromide print
C-type colour print
Cabinet print
Calotype
Carbon print
Carte-de-visite
Chlorobromide print
Cibachrome print
Collotype
Contact Print
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Digital imaging
Diptych
Dye-transfer print
Embellishment
Glass magic lantern/ slide
Glass positive
Hand-coloured
Hologram
Kodalith
LCD screen
Monochrome
Negative
Photo collage
Photogalvanograph
Photogravure
Photomontage
Platinotype
Platinum print, Palladium print
Polaroid
Salt paper process
Silver print or gelatin silver print
Solarized print process
Stereograph
Vintage Print
Drawing
Biro
Body colour
Caricature
Cartoon
Chalk
Charcoal
Chiaorscuro
Collage
Conté crayon
Crayon
Goldpoint
Gouache
Hatching
Heightening
Indian ink
Ink
Paper
Pastel
Pen
Pen, ink and wash
Pencil
Plumbago
Pouncing
Sanguine
Sepia
Sgraffito
Silhouette
Silverpoint
Stencil
Stipple
Stump
Tracing, Tracing paper
Vellum
Wash
Watercolour
Wax resist
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