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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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Gesture
Art history; Visual arts
As applied to the human figure in artworks, their posture or manner of bodily expression; as applied to artistic practices, the sense of an artist's manner of wielding tools, as in the gesture ...
Gestalt
Art history; Visual arts
From the german for form, configuration, or appearance, designates a whole that recognisably has parts, but can only be experienced as an indivisible unity (rather than synthesised through a prior ...
Geometry
Art history; Visual arts
In art, any aspect of shape or form that displays or suggests the elements of spatial mathematics, such as straight or regularly curved lines, triangles, squares (among shapes) or pyramids and cubes ...
Genre
Art history; Visual arts
In painting and graphic arts, images which depict scenes of common daily life, which were particularly popular and important in the art of seventeenth century holland; more broadly the term ...
Gallery
Art history; Visual arts
A room, building or entire institution in which artworks are displayed for viewing and/or sale; the word derives from mediaeval latin galilaea, the far end or "porch" of a church (so named after ...
Fresco
Art history; Visual arts
From the italian for fresh, a technique in painting in which pigment is diluted in water and then applied directly to new coats of wall plaster such that the colour becomes fast within the surface ...
