Glossary
G
Geometric
Of or relating to geometry and its methods and principles.
Gestural
Also
know as action painting. A kind of abstract painting in which the gesture, or
act of painting, is seen as the subject of art. Its most renowned proponent was
Jackson Pollock.
Group f/64
Created in 1932, this group of photographers promoted a style of sharply detailed, purist photography. The name of the group is taken from a setting of a camera diaphragm aperture that gives particularly good resolution.
Guanyin
Chinese Boddhisattva of compassion.
