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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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tempera
Art history; Visual arts
An italian word meaning to mix. It is a painting medium in which ground pigments are mixed with egg yolk, thinned with water and applied to specially prepared wooden panels. It ...
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 color 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.
sign
Art history; Visual arts
An outward manifestation that stands for something - and for somebody. Semiotics studies culture and views its material products and what happens in it as signs.
space
Art history; Visual arts
The three dimensional field of everyday experience, often as an abstracted and featureless container of things, as distinct from “place,” which typically identifies a space in ...
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