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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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Evangelist

Art history; Visual arts

One of the four writers of the gospels of the christian bible: matthew, mark, luke, or john, sometimes represented in (particularly mediaeval and renaissance) artworks by their conventional symbols: ...

Etching

Art history; Visual arts

A form of intaglio printmaking in which a plate (typically of metal) is coated with some manner of ground, i.e. A substance that resists the action of an acid that is used to incise the plate where ...

Eros

Art history; Visual arts

A greek term, it names romantic or physical love, as well as the mythological son of aphrodite, goddess of love, and ares, god of war (cupid, venus, and mars in their roman appellations); hence ...

Entablature

Art history; Visual arts

That portion of a classical building above the columns, including the architrave, frieze and cornice.

Found

Art history; Visual arts

In art, elements that are encountered and incorporated fully-formed into a work, sometimes themselves forming the whole work altogether, whether displayed singly or in composition.

Formal

Art history; Visual arts

In art, used to indicate an analytical approach that describes all those features of a work that are purely structural as opposed to representational or intrinsically meaningful, i.e. Aspects such as ...

Foreshortening

Art history; Visual arts

A way of representing an object as seen along its axis, often such that it appears to be approaching or receding from a viewer.

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