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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Flourished

Art history; Visual arts

Indicates dates or specific time periods within which an artist did their most important work, particularly when exact birth and death dates are unknown.

Passed by congress in 1791 in qualification of the main body of the u. S. Constitution, it reads: "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise ...

Finish

Art history; Visual arts

In painting or sculpture, the degree to which a surface has been worked, and hence the quality of that surface in material terms.

Figure

Art history; Visual arts

In art, generally the form of anything that an artist depicts against a background, i.e. The subject of an image; more specifically, the term usually denotes the human form, and most often in its ...

Figurative

Art history; Visual arts

In art, representational, or more generally, images that seemingly depict objects (whether existing, recognisable or not); figurative language is that which uses metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, or ...

Humanism

Art history; Visual arts

A concern for that which is specifically human, as opposed to the divine (or, less often, to the animal); and for humanity in general, rather than particular individuals. More specifically, the term ...

Horizon

Art history; Visual arts

The line that designates where the ground and sky appear to meet in a landscape image, or, alternatively, would so appear if not obscured or made indistinct by intervening objects and topographical ...