| TACHISME | French style of abstract painting from the 1940s associated with Michel Tapie |
| STEAL | Abstract paintings from the art gallery, perhaps (5) |
| POSTMODERNISM | Philosophical movement associated with Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida |
| BEBOP | A type of jazz originating in the 1940s associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (5) |
| ABSTRACT | ___ expressionism was a school of painting in New York in the 1940's associated with Jackson Pollock |
| OPART | 1960s' style of abstract painting, with dramatic visual effects (2,3) |
| MALEVICH | This Russian avant-garde painter was the founder of the Suprematist school of abstract painting. His painting Suprematist Composition (1916) sold at auction for almost $86 million in 2019. |
| NEDKELLY | Who was the subject of Sidney Nolan's series of paintings from 1946-47. considered to be one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings of the 20th century? (3,5) |
| HEART | Masculine painting from the seat of the emotions? (5) |
| DARTPLAYER | Five hundred paintings from the abbey found in the pub facing the board (4,6) |
| HARWELL | Location of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment from the 1940s to the 1990s (7) |
| TRADESMAN | Dealer labelled painting from the back, inscribing Seurat's initial |
| OLDMASTER | Painting from the eighteenth century or earlier (3,6) |
| HILMAAFKLINT | Swedish painter and mystic who was a pioneer of abstract painting |
| TRAUMA | Shock a maiden with essentially adult paintings from the East |
| CLIO | Muse about painting from the east (4) |
| MANTRA | Sacred text fellow's appended to paintings from the East (6) |
| TRADER | Dealer turned up paintings from the communist era? |
| ALACARTE | Penny leaves palace having stolen paintings from the list (1,2,5) |
| GRISAILLE | A girl is excited by the French style of painting |
