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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Pigment

Art history; Visual arts

A substance, organic or synthetic, used in coloring, often in the form of fine powders mixed within some suspending medium or vehicle.

Pier

Art history; Visual arts

A strong, solid support of a building that may be either round or square in cross section.

Photograph

Art history; Visual arts

Literally "light-drawing," the recording and reproducing of images on light sensitive material using one of various chemical processes. The first photographs date from the early nineteenth century.

Semiotics

Art history; Visual arts

The study of signs, systems of signs and the social production of signs. It is also known as semiology. Based on the arbitrary nature of communication systems, semiotics examines how signs are ...

A group whose work shares common stylistic traits. Sometimes a work is attributed to the school of an artist when a confident attribution cannot be made. In art, the term school does not refer to a ...

Saturation

Art history; Visual arts

In material colour and mixtures of color, saturation describes vividness or purity of hue. A colour has a high saturation when there is no admixture of any other hue, nor any white or black. ...

Realism

Art history; Visual arts

(with a capital 'r') refers to mid-nineteenth century art works that deliberately represented wretched and even ugly subjects, usually for a political reason. The term was first used to describe ...