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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Trompe l'oeil

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A loanword from French which literally translates to 'fool the eye.' It is used to refer to visual deception. Typically through a two-dimensional representation that is so lifelike that it looks ...

Thumbnail sketch

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Crude, small pencil drawings used to develop the initial concept for a design.

Textured canvas

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Textured canvas prints—such as Howard Terpning's Opening the Sacred Bundle—are published on a very selective basis. This unique and valuable technique replicates the look and feel of an original ...

Texture

Arts & crafts; Fine art

The tactile surface characteristics of a work of art that are either felt or perceived visually.

Showing change from light to dark or dark to light in a picture by darkening areas that would be shadowed and leaving other areas light. Shading is often used to produce illusions of dimension and ...

Shade

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A colour produced by adding black to a pigment.

Serigraph

Arts & crafts; Fine art

(also referred to as 'silkscreen' or 'screenprint') is a colour stencil printing process in which a special paint is forced through a fine screen onto the paper beneath. Areas which do not print are ...