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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Limited edition

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A limit placed on the number of prints produced in a particular edition, in order to create a scarcity of the print. Limited editions are signed and numbered by the artist. Once the prints in the ...

Medium

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Material or technique an artist works in; also, the component of paint in which the pigment is dispersed.

Masterpiece

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A work done with extraordinary skill, especially a work of art, craft or intellect that is an exceptionally great achievement.

Maquette

Arts & crafts; Fine art

In sculpture, a small model in wax or clay, made as a preliminary sketch, presented to a client for his approval of the proposed work, or entered in a competition for a prize or scholarship. The ...

Palette

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A thin piece of glass, wood or other material, or pad of paper, which is used to hold the paint to be used in painting; also, the range of colours used by a particular painter.

An age old technique in which an image is drawn on a stone by the artist (in reverse) and then pressed by hand, one colour at a time, onto paper or canvas. Each lithograph is considered an original ...

Original

Arts & crafts; Fine art

The term 'original' can imply exclusivity or the idea that the work is 'one of a kind' rather than a copy by any method including offset-lithography, digital printing or by forgery. Not all paintings ...