Fine art

Fine art

Of, or pertaining to the creation of, any visual art that was considered to have been created for purely aesthetic purposes.

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An internationally recognised system of over 3000 pre-mixed colours representing shades on both coated or uncoated stock, along with the precise printing formulas to achieve each color. Each Pantone ...

Palette knife

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A tool originally used by artists for scraping up and mixing the paint from the palette, this implement has been adopted for the application of heavily impacted paint which is spread thickly like ...

Colour wheel

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A round diagram that shows the placement of colours in relationship to each other. It is from the colour wheel that "color schemes" are defined.

Colour permanence

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Refers to a pigment's lasting power. Tubes and other containers of paint are sometimes labelled with a code indicating a color's degree of permanence (AA - highest; A - standard; C - Less than ...

Certificate of authenticity

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Certifies the authenticity of an individual piece in an edition and states the current market value.

Colour

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; the visual response to the wavelengths of light, identified as red, blue, green, etc.; primary and secondary ...