Visual arts

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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Ukiyo-e

Art history; Visual arts

A japanese word meaning "pictures of the floating world. " A movement in japanese painting and print making from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Prominent artists were masonobu, hokusai and ...

Trompe l’oeil

Art history; Visual arts

A french phrase meaning "deceive the eye. " This usually refers to a painting that aims to trick the viewer into believing in the physical reality of the depicted objects.

Traditionally an altarpiece or devotional object consisting of three parts. Often the central panel is twice the width of the side panels. Sometimes the side panels are designed to fold over the main ...

Tracery

Art history; Visual arts

Ornamental stone pattern work used in the upper parts of windows.

Contrapposto

Art history; Visual arts

From the italian for "set opposite," designating a figure pose in which the body is twisted on its vertical axis, with the shoulders and hips at a pronounced angle.

Art

Art history; Visual arts

In the usage of this website, any human activity requiring consciously applied skills, and/or material objects or events considered specifically as embodiments of such skills. Art history is the ...

Bestiary

Art history; Visual arts

A graphic and literary genre particularly popular in mediaeval europe that collected images and descriptions of animals, real and imaginary, often along with allegorical moral lessons or stories.