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Visual arts
Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.
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Pediment
Art history; Visual arts
A low pitched gable above a classical style building. A pediment is the triangular space over doors and windows of a building influenced by greek architecture.
Palaeolithic
Art history; Visual arts
Of the stone age, a period within the pleistocene epoch, during which human ancestors used tools made from stones, from about two and a half million to about ten thousand years bce.
Palette
Art history; Visual arts
A board on which an artist mixes colors; often there is a thumbhole for ease of holding. More generally palette refers to the range of colours or hues a painter has used in a painting or group of ...
Paper
Art history; Visual arts
A (typically) thin mass of plant fibres in sheets or rolls that serves to bear marks from various media (paints, graphite, charcoal, etc. ) And may serve as a background to a picture made from such ...
Plastic
Art history; Visual arts
That which can be modeled, or, alternatively, can be depicted as having three dimensions.
Picture
Art history; Visual arts
A visual representation or image on a flat surface. A picture may, for example, be painted, drawn, photographed, collaged, or otherwise produced by some combination or modification of such means.
Phallic
Art history; Visual arts
Belonging to or resembling a phallus. According to luce irigaray, the phallus is primarily a visual object, erect and in clear view; she contrasts this to the vagina which is unseen, lacking in ...
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