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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Watercolour

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A water-based paint that is a translucent wash of pigment; a painting produced with watercolors.

Wash

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Used in watercolour painting, brush drawing, and occasionally in oil painting to describe a broad thin layer of diluted pigment or ink. Also refers to a drawing made in this technique.

Viridian

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A blue-green pigment composed more of green than blue. Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis meaning "green".

Vignette

Arts & crafts; Fine art

An image or painting where the borders are undefined and seem to fade away gradually until it blends into the background.

Surrealism

Arts & crafts; Fine art

An art style developed in Europe in the 1920's, characterised by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas. Surrealist paintings often depict ...

A painting or other two-dimensional work of art representing inanimate objects such as bottles, fruit, and flowers. Also, the arrangement of these objects from which a drawing, painting, or other art ...