Visual arts

Visual arts

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

Contributors in Visual arts

Visual arts

The philosophic study of human experience in which separate analytical considerations of objective reality and subjective responses to it are, during the phenomenological investigation, left out, or ...

Petroglyph

Art history; Visual arts

A drawing scratched or otherwise etched into a rock.

Perspective

Art history; Visual arts

A method used to render the illusion of depth on a flat surface. There are several methods (including linear and aerial, defined above). In art and visual perception rudolf arnheim uses the term ...

Period

Art history; Visual arts

An extended interval of time, understood usually within the context of an identifiable geographic region, characterised by a specific set of cultural, economic, social or technological practices.

Performance art

Art history; Visual arts

Often planned, sometimes spontaneous events which may occur in an art gallery but can take place anywhere. Performances often involve the activity spectators as well as artists. While the performance ...

Porch

Art history; Visual arts

A covered structure open on the front and sides connected to an entrance into an adjoined building.

Plane

Art history; Visual arts

That which adds breadth to a line; a level surface. Plane surface may be contrasted with depth. In sculpture, planes define the surfaces of solid elements, in contrast to empty spaces between. In on ...