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De-skilling
The purposeful adoption of a poor visual language or technique, with the intention to appear untrained and without skill. A tactic used by artists to make 'bad art' and distance themselves from 'high art' and intellectual or academic pursuits.
"There is so much sophisticated drawing around at the moment, we need more rough, direct de-skilled drawing, and anti-aesthetic work to counterbalance this elegance"
Donated by Gerry Davies
Didactic
When something is didactic it is trying to teach something specific. If an artwork is described as didactic it means that the artist is trying to tell people something very specific through the work; it's primary intention is to instruct.
“He had a loud and didactic tone to his speech”

“They created the artwork for didactic purposes”
Donated by Holly Hendry
Discombobulated
To be confused or disconcerted.
“I was a little discombobulated by that lecturers’ fashion sense this morning”
Donated by Mandy Ure