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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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Aerial perspective
Art history; Visual arts
A means of depicting deep space in painting or graphic arts by rendering objects at greater distances more indistinct, to suggest the interposition of an atmospheric haze.
Anti-art
Art history; Visual arts
Works that seek to undermine prevailing standards for the form or content of anything considered "art," first used to describe the practises and works of the dada movement that flourished during the ...
Byzantine
Art history; Visual arts
In art and architecture, this term identifies works from the eastern roman empire, roughly from the founding of its capital constantinople (originally byzantium, now istanbul) in 330 ce until the ...
Acropolis
Art history; Visual arts
Greek for "high city," the term refers to the elevated portions of cities on which the main temples were built.
Classical
Art history; Visual arts
Most specifically, this term designates the 5th and 4th centuries bce in greece and the works produced then and there, though it has come to be used of greek and roman antiquity in general, and even ...
Cinema
Art history; Visual arts
Coined in the last decade of the 19th century from the greek for "movement," this term names the medium that presents images in rapid succession, typically to simulate naturalistic movement.
