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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Horizontal balance

Arts & crafts; Fine art

The components that are balanced left and right of a central axis.

Grayscale

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Refers to the range of grey tones between black and white.

Gouache

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A type of watercolour paint, made heavier and more opaque by the addition of a white pigment (chalk, Chinese white, etc.) in a gum arabic mixture. This results in a stronger colour than ordinary ...

Giclee

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A giclee (zhee-clay) is an elegant, state-of-the-art reproduction that gives a vibrant colour rendition of an original painting. Giclee, a French printmaker's term for "sprayed", was adopted to ...

Drawing

Arts & crafts; Fine art

The act of representing an image on a surface by means of adding lines and shades, as with a pencil, crayon, pen, chalk, pastels, etc. Also refers to an illustration that has been drawn by hand.

An intaglio line technique in which the incised line is directly drawn into the surface of the metal plate. A burr next to the line is created by the metal that is pushed to the side. This burr with ...