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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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Salon
Art history; Visual arts
Any of the annual exhibitions of artworks held in france. Often, today, the term is used negatively to describe the exhibitions of the mid-nineteenth century of traditional, formulaic art works that ...
Rose window
Art history; Visual arts
A circular window with decorated rib work about the center; a form first developed in gothic cathedrals.
Portrait
Art history; Visual arts
A two- or three-dimensional representation of a person (or group), concerned mainly with faithful recording of physiognomy, identifying its subject(s) as unique historical individual(s).
Prehistoric
Art history; Visual arts
Any time or thing that predates recorded (pictorial or literary) history, generally covering anything older than the second millennium bce.
Primary colours
Art history; Visual arts
The three colours red, blue and yellow. All other colours are obtainable from these primaries. Secondaries such as purple (red and blue) or green (blue and yellow) are made from two primaries. ...
Tradition
Art history; Visual arts
A set of recognised customs regarded as coherent that has guided social behaviour for many generations and is still relevant to the present time.
Transept
Art history; Visual arts
The transverse portions of a cross-shaped church. The transept usually separates the nave from the apse or the chancel.