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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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Reproduction

Art history; Visual arts

A copy, usually not in the same medium as the original, and one not made by the original artist. Replica is typically used to mean a very exact reproduction, though through technological means ...

Renaissance

Art history; Visual arts

One of the most fraught and debated terms in art history, this generally refers to the revival of arts and letters inspired by classical roman and greek models in western europe from the fourteenth ...

Refectory

Art history; Visual arts

A dining hall in a monastery, (in italian cenacolo).

Relief

Art history; Visual arts

The real or apparent projection of three dimensional figures from a flat background. In sculpture, the term is used for figures raised physically above the background, protruding from it to varying ...

Technique

Art history; Visual arts

A procedure by which a task is accomplished. In art this refers often to an artist's particular manner of using her tools or medium.

Synaesthesia

Art history; Visual arts

When one type of sensation evokes another sense. For example when a sound is experienced in part as a color, or when a colour prompts a sound.

Shape

Art history; Visual arts

A two dimensional area, bounded by lines, distinct from form, which describes an object in three dimensions.

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