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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Contour

Art history; Visual arts

Outline; contour drawing is that which concentrates on producing a line corresponding to the observed outline of an object or figure.

A movement in visual art, literature, dance, and theatre that flourished in various urban centres around europe (including zurich, berlin and paris) following the first world war and that cultivated ...

Cubism

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in painting that flourished mainly in paris in the first decades of the twentieth century, led by pablo picasso and georges braque (and greatly influenced by paul cezanne) that revolved ...

Before current era (BCE)

Art history; Visual arts

Used to replace B. C. Or "before christ," though it too applies to years preceding the christian year 1 (even while the absolute calculation of this date has changed somewhat over time).

Bust

Art history; Visual arts

A sculpted or painted portrait that comprises the head, shoulders and upper arms of the subject.

Anamorphosis

Art history; Visual arts

An image made to be viewed either from one distinct point (sometimes with the means of special reflective surfaces), which otherwise appears distorted. Linear perspective forms one (relatively major) ...

Focal point

Art history; Visual arts

That which in an image forms the centre of interest or attention, whether through purely formal means or through the specific meaning it has within the image and/or for viewers.