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

A style of painting that uses monochrome tints and shades to suggest form and depth, often to simulate relief sculptures or carved modelling in paintings of architectural elements; also names a kind ...

Gothic

Art history; Visual arts

This term now designates a stylistic period in western european art and architecture, especially france and england, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century (with geographic variations in timing). ...

Gloriole

Art history; Visual arts

Literally a scrap of glory, one of a number of terms designating the lighted area around depictions of a sacred or otherwise honoured subject's head, including also halo and nimbus; the related term ...

Automatism

Art history; Visual arts

The practise of making art that attempts to downplay conscious direction, giving free-play to unconscious or otherwise random impulses, though often within a predetermined set of material and ...

Current era (CE)

Art history; Visual arts

Used in place of the christian a. D. (anno domini, latin for year of our lord), or dates following on the christian year 1, i.e. The putative date of the birth of jesus christ (see also bce).

Altar

Art history; Visual arts

A raised surface or place used as the practical focal point of a religious service.

Field

Art history; Visual arts

In art, this can be the actual surface on which marks or images are made; the encompassing background of an image (i.e. The apparent surface or area of the image); or a (relatively) flat area within ...