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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Decoration

Art history; Visual arts

Something which adds beauty, distinct from an object's purely representational or functional qualities.

Abstract expressionism

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in painting that flourished from the late-1940s through the 1950s, mainly in new york city (and thus also known as the new york school). Under the rubric of "action painting," its ...

Colour field painting

Art history; Visual arts

Sometimes considered as a development of abstract expressionism, composes images out of large, juxtaposed areas of single colors. Key figures include mark rothko, jules olitski and helen ...

Emblem

Art history; Visual arts

Generally, an object or image that stands symbolically for a quality, action, state or class; more specifically, a drawing expressing a moral fable or allegory.

In the usage of this site, ancient art and architecture produced generally in the lands along the nile river between the mediterranean and present-day sudan and between the third millennium bce and ...

Circa

Art history; Visual arts

Latin for about, used to indicate the approximate date or dates of an event, life or other occurrence.

Dolmen

Art history; Visual arts

A structure of large vertical stones supporting one or more horizontally, found largely in northern france and southern england, produced mainly during the third and second millennia bce; stonehenge ...