1. Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it. Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe. Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals and restrained naturalism associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. The term is also used to refer to some Late Gothic painters working in northern Europe from about 1500 to 1530, especially the Antwerp Mannerists—a group unrelated to the Italian movement. Mannerism also has been applied by analogy to the Silver Age of Latin. (Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia)
2. Sequential Art is the use of a train of images deployed in sequence to graphic storytelling or convey information. The best-known example of sequential art is comics. The term was coined in 1985 by comics artist Will Eisner in his book Comics and Sequential Art
3. Decalcomania, from the French décalcomanie, is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials. It was invented in England about 1750 and imported into the United States at least as early as 1865. Its invention has been attributed to Simon François Ravenet, an engraver from France who later moved to England and perfected the process he called “decalquer” (which means to copy by tracing). The first known use of the French term décalcomanie, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Eleanor’s Victory (1863), was followed by the English decalcomania in an 1865 trade show catalog (The Tenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association). It was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s. Today the shortened version is “Decal”. Max Ernst also practiced decalcomania, as did Remedios Varo. (Wikipedia)
4. The New Objectivity (in German: ”Neue Sachlichkeit”) was an art movement that arose in Germany in the early 1920s as an outgrowth of, and in opposition to, expressionism. Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub coined the term in 1923 in a letter he sent to colleagues describing an exhibition he was planning saying “what we are displaying here is distinguished by the — in itself purely external — characteristics of the objectivity with which the artists express themselves. He identified two groups: the Verists, who “tear the objective form of the world of contemporary facts and represent current experience in its tempo and fevered temperature;” and the Magical Realists, who “search more for the object of timeless ability to embody the external laws of existence in the artistic sphere.” The movement essentially ended in 1933 with the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. (Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia)
5. The Bradshaw Rock Paintings are a distinctive style of rock art found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. They are named after the pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw who was the first European to discover them in 1891. The Bradshaws are also known as Gwion Gwion by the local Aboriginal people. Scientists estimate that there may be more than 100,000 sites spread over 50,000 km of the Kimberley. In 1996 one of the paintings was dated by analysing an ancient wasp nest covering it (using thermoluminescence). The nest was found to be over 17,000 years old, indicating that some paintings are at least this old. (Bradshaw Foundation, Wikipedia)