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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Cartoon

Art history; Visual arts

In an archaic sense, a preliminary drawing done to the full size of a planned work and used to transfer the design to the wall, panel, or canvas; in a more familiar contemporary sense, a drawing, ...

Edition

Art history; Visual arts

The full set of a run of prints of a given work (including, in this sense, of a particular version of a book).

Co-opt

Art history; Visual arts

To take over or adopt, often thereby rendering an oppositional or critical individual or group and their position(s) less potent.

Conceptual

Art history; Visual arts

In art, works in which an immaterial idea (often a process) is as or more important than the work's physical embodiment, which is often negligibly slight and/or un-enduring.

Dye

Art history; Visual arts

Colour with pigments absorbed into some material, usually a fabric (including paper).

Degenerate

Art history; Visual arts

A term used by germany's national socialist (nazi) party in the 1930s and 1940s to designate artists and artworks that showed symptoms of moral and social decline.

In art generally the principle whereby elements in a work (painting, sculpture, architecture, or other) are deployed to give an overall feeling of stability. Axial or radial arrangements of elements ...