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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Halo

Art history; Visual arts

A lighted (often gilt) area depicted around the head of a sacred or otherwise honoured personage; see gloriole.

Hatching

Art history; Visual arts

A series of roughly parallel strokes in a drawing, generally used to indicate the orientation of planes on a form to suggest its rounded plasticity.

Hieratic

Art history; Visual arts

Generally, relating and appropriate to sacred persons or duties; also designates a style in art that bespeaks adherence to religious styles or conventional depictions or methods.

The plural form of graffito, the italian for mark or scribble, the term has come to designate writings or artworks made on public surfaces, often in defiance of prohibitions against it, as a form of ...

Graphic

Art history; Visual arts

Images that are especially linear in character, such as drawing, and/or those made through a printing process (rather than painted), such as lithography, etching, monoprinting, and woodcutting.

Fine art

Art history; Visual arts

A term used to distinguish artworks considered to have rare and refined quality, often considered - by those who make such judgments - to be more worthy of preservation and study than "popular" or ...

History

Art history; Visual arts

As a genre in painting, an image that deals with scenes or episodes from the past (though typically distinct from images of sacred events that have mainly devotional import).