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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Landscape

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A painting, drawing or photograph which depicts outdoor scenery. They typically include trees, streams, buildings, crops, mountains, wildlife, rivers and forests.

A loose spontaneous style of painting that originated in France about 1870. The impressionist style of painting is characterised chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene ...

Composition

Arts & crafts; Fine art

The arrangement of the design elements within the design area; the ordering of visual and emotional experience to give unity and consistency to a work of art and to allow the observer to comprehend ...

Colour separation

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A traditional photographic process of separating artwork into component films of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in preparation for printing to ultimately create a full-color printed product. Recent ...

Complementary colours

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Two colours directly opposite one another on the colour wheel. When placed next to one another, complementary colours are intensified and often appear to vibrate. When mixed, brown or grey is ...