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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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Naïve art
Art history; Visual arts
Art produced by an individual who has no formal training. The work and background of the naïve artist contrasts with the training and career paths followed by the traditional artists of that ...
Model
Art history; Visual arts
In the visual arts, some thing that serves as the subject of a representation, often used of persons sitting for portraits (i.e. A "sitter"), or of the person depicted bodily in nudes and other ...
Modern
Art history; Visual arts
Of the present, or, increasingly, of recent times, in its use as a designator of a cultural movement that dominated most of the twentieth century. In fact, the historical limits of the modern are a ...
Movement
Art history; Visual arts
In static visual arts, the perceptual effect or illusion of movement, effected by the elements of an image that lure the eye to perceive change. The way the eye views an image can be described as a ...
Passage
Art history; Visual arts
In visual art, a segment or well-defined but not isolated area of a larger work.
Parergon
Art history; Visual arts
A greek word that means subordinate, beside the main subject. In the truth in painting, jacques derrida extends a brief mention of this term in immanuel kant's critique of judgement (wherein it ...
