Visual arts

Visual arts

Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.

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Background

Art history; Visual arts

In a picture, that which appears furthest from the viewer, often marked by a horizon line, and generally opposed to a foreground in which the main subject of the scene appears. Often, though not ...

Imagery made according to some standard other than a "true-to-life" representation. Abstraction may simplify, exaggerate, schematize, or otherwise change natural appearances, or it may depart from ...

Commodity

Art history; Visual arts

Something bought or sold (or, more generally, an object of trade); to commodify is to render something thus liable to common valuation and trade.

Calligraphy

Art history; Visual arts

From the greek for "beautiful writing," this term refers to hand-drawn, stylized script, an art practised in a variety of cultures across time.

Composition

Art history; Visual arts

In visual art, the arrangement of the elements of a work, or, as leon battista alberti expresses it (in "book two" of on painting): "the rule in painting by which the parts fit together. "

Imago

Art history; Visual arts

In ancient rome, a wax portrait of an ancestor; in psychoanalysis, the subjective, subconsciously formed idea or image of someone that continues to influence one's feelings, attitudes and behavior.

Illustration

Art history; Visual arts

In art, an image that purports to make visible, or simply to ornament, the sense or meaning of a text, particularly as an aid to the reader's interest or understanding.