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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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Orientalism
Art history; Visual arts
The use in an image of something characteristic of the arts of cultures from northern africa and the eastern end of the mediterranean through the southern half of the continent of asia.
Paint
Art history; Visual arts
A liquid (i.e. A "medium" or "vehicle," including an adhesive "binder") mixed with coloured pigments which can be applied to a surface.
Painterly
Art history; Visual arts
A style of painting in which shapes are distinguished by colour rather than line or contour.
Avant-garde
Art history; Visual arts
From the french term for the leading part of an army, generally applied to art and artists considered (by themselves or others) to be at the forefront of developments in aesthetic practises and ...
Dry point
Art history; Visual arts
A print technique in which a plate is incised with a pointed stylus in order to collect the ink, which is then transferred (typically) to dampened paper on receiving the impress of the plate. This is ...
Cinquecento
Art history; Visual arts
From the italian for "five hundred," designating the sixteenth century (i.e."one-thousand five hundreds").
Colour
Art history; Visual arts
The property characterising visible light of varying wavelengths, the colour of something being the wavelength of the light reflected by it; primary colours are red, blue and yellow/green, meaning ...
