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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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Sign

Art history; Visual arts

An outward manifestation that stands for something - and for somebody. Semiotics studies culture and views its material products and what happens in it as signs.

Space

Art history; Visual arts

The three dimensional field of everyday experience, often as an abstracted and featureless container of things, as distinct from "place," which typically identifies a space in relation to other ...

Still-life

Art history; Visual arts

The representation of inanimate objects in painting or photography.

Provenance

Art history; Visual arts

The record of ownership of a work of art, its origin, derivation and pedigree. It tells who owned a work; an attribution identifies the artist or artists who produced a work.

Public

Art history; Visual arts

The community or people who receive art and are generally self-consciously concerned with its character over time and space. The public may be distinguished from an audience, who are those receiving ...

Qibla

Art history; Visual arts

The direction of prayer towards the kaaba in mecca; sometimes in a mosque referred to as the qibla wall.

Quattrocento

Art history; Visual arts

From the italian for "four hundred"; designating the fifteenth century (i.e. The "fourteen hundreds"). This italian term is commonly used by art historians writing in english about italian art, and ...

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