Terms of the Day for October 18

• Modern Art – artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.
• Abstraction – art which uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which distorts traditional representations of—or exists with a degree of independence from—visual references in the world.
• Reform Dress Movement – a late 19th and early 20th century movement to reform constricting clothing designed for women and to transform the ideal female figure from Victorian exaggerated proportions to a more natural, “healthy” shape.
• The Omega Workshops – an experimental design collective founded by the painter and influential art critic Roger Fry in 1913, whose purpose what to bring the experimental language of avant-garde art to domestic design in Edwardian Britain.