Visual arts

Visual arts

Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.

Contributors in Visual arts

Visual arts

The relation of the part to the whole. In art, it may refer to the search for the lengths of parts of the human body to the size of the whole person. The search for such rules, in written form, go ...

Print

Art history; Visual arts

An impression, picture, or a design from a plate, block, stone, type face, photographic image or other medium fixed to a sheet of paper, cloth, or similar plane surface.

Style

Art history; Visual arts

The summation of the distinctive features in a certain genre of art works done by an individual or a group.

Subject

Art history; Visual arts

That about which an art work is concerned. If an art work has a title, the viewer can use it to help identify the subject.

Symbol

Art history; Visual arts

Something that represents something else, whether by resembling it or by being related to it through cultural associations. Often symbols are material objects or images that stand in for abstract, ...

Sense

Art history; Visual arts

The function of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching or tasting.

Sfumato

Art history; Visual arts

An italian word meaning smoke, describing a smooth shift in tone from light to dark in shadows on objects, as distinct from sharp or stepwise gradations of contrast. Leonardo da vinci regarded the ...