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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Celtic

Art history; Visual arts

In art historical terms, works produced by the celtic peoples, in western europe from around 450 bce to the first century ce, and in the british isles and ireland especially during the first ...

The earliest form of commercial photographic print, developed in the mid-nineteenth century in paris by louis j. M. Daguerre, which fixes a positive image on a copper plate coated with silver iodide ...

Canvas

Art history; Visual arts

Canvas is a tightly woven fabric of hemp or cotton and the primary support for oil-based paints; starting in the sixteenth century it replaced wooden panels as the main form of support for artworks ...

Multiple

Art history; Visual arts

These are copies made by such processes as lithography or seriography. These are not exact reproductions nor are they limited in numbers as are engravings.

Mural

Art history; Visual arts

A picture or decoration applied directly to a wall or ceiling.

Muse

Art history; Visual arts

One of a series greek deities of the fine arts and other intellectual pursuits. They are the daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory). There are traditionally nine of them, but their names and what ...