A genre is a "kind" or "sort" or criteria for the categorisation of things. Genres are often loose categories which can often cross over and overlap with other genres. The usage of the word "genre" is often confined to the arts but has history in other conventions. ...
An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records (eit...
Algorithmic art, also known as algorithm art, is art, mostly visual art, of which the design is generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called algorists. Algorithmic art is a subset of generative art, and is practically always executed by a computer. If executed by a computer...
The practice of altering existing works of art goes all the way back to the Middle Ages, when the monks would conserve their precious stocks of parchment by reusing old manuscripts, often incompletely obscuring what was there before. A few centuries later we often find well-known artists like ...
Alternative Art is art you create that fits into no particular art category and employs 'alternative' methods of production other than traditional pens, pencils and paints and straight forward thinking and ideas - but rather abstract or new, unexplored ideas in art!
Appropriation art is the borrowing of artifacts, motifs and things from other cultures or artworks to create a new one - but not the same as Actual Art where real things are modified to create the new piece of art (Ed Bonthrone) (wiki) In the visual arts, to appropriate means to adopt, borrow, r...
Artists' book is a genre of art where works of art are realized by an artist in the form of a book. (eb) (wiki) They are often published in small editions, though sometimes they are produced as one-of-a-kind objects referred to as "uniques". Artists' books have employed a w...
ASCII Art is Pictures created with normal text characters. This is done by hand or with programs that convert scanned images into ASCII characters. The following image was created by ASCII artist Joan Stark of Westlake, Ohio. ASCII art is very imaginative. For a wide variety of Joan's work a...
Image Copyright 'Drifter' by Mark Garlick (This is the best example of Astronomical Art I could find). (wikipedia) Astronomical art is the aspect of Space art devoted to visualizing the wonders of outer space. A major emphasis of such art is the space environment as a new frontier for...
