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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Jambs

Art history; Visual arts

The vertical posts of a doorway or window frame; used as well of the walls that slant towards a doorway. In the portals of gothic cathedrals the jambs are sculptures. At chartres cathedral, for ...

Intaglio

Art history; Visual arts

Any form of printmaking in which an image is incised into a plate, or matrix (typically of metal), and then filled with ink and transferred by pressing or rubbing the plate onto another surface ...

Index

Art history; Visual arts

In semiotics, a sign whose meaning derives from the connexion of one thing with another through a cause and effect relationship, such as footprints being the index of a certain animal's prior ...

Impressionism

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in painting that flourished in the mid- to late-nineteenth century in france, characterised by its practitioners' interest in recording the visual aspects of things under different ...