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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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Folio
Art history; Visual arts
A book or manuscript that consists of large sheets (around a foot or more in height) of paper folded once to make the sequence of pages; the term may also be used to indicate one such page in a ...
Draw
Art history; Visual arts
To mark lines and shapes on a surface (though not necessarily to produce a likeness). Insofar as drawing concerns mainly line, shape and form, it is considered distinct from painting, which concerns ...
Critic
Art history; Visual arts
In relation to art, a person who describes and evaluates, or otherwise judges artworks according to some criteria; somewhat distinct from a connoisseur, who asserts a sensitivity to aesthetic value ...
Architrave
Art history; Visual arts
The lintel in classical architecture, or that which spans two columns at the top and forms the lowest part of the entablature.
Bauhaus
Art history; Visual arts
An influential movement in aesthetics, visual art, architecture and industrial design devoted to elegant simplicity of form, particularly as an integral aspect of the efficient, large-scale ...
Aquatint
Art history; Visual arts
A technique in etching in which a fine powder of resin is applied to a metal plate to be bitten in an acid bath in order to cover the plate, in whole or in parts, with a fine texture that yields even ...
