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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
Art history; Visual arts
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao is a Taiwanese artist who was born in 1977. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1999 at the age of 22 to study photography. There, he immediately took ...
alabastron
Art history; Visual arts
A container for perfumed oil that takes its name from alabaster, the material from which the original Egyptian examples were made. Greek artists adopted the Egyptian alabastron's ...
alabaster
Art history; Visual arts
A white or yellowish white translucent stone, which is a type of gypsum found in England and Italy. Its softness makes it easy to carve, but also easily broken, soiled, and ...
alienation
Art history; Visual arts
A sense of isolation, depersonalization, disenchantment, estrangement, or powerlessness. Alienation has been considered an especially important issue during the twentieth century. ...
align
Art history; Visual arts
In graphic design, to align is to line up type and other graphic elements on the same vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line.
alignment
Art history; Visual arts
Alignment is the positioning of the characters in a line of type in exact juxtaposition with each other and with accompanying lines. It is also the positioning of printed pages in ...
alizarin
Art history; Visual arts
Originally a bright red pigment, also called madder lake, made from madder, derived from the root of the plant Rubia tinctorum. Alizarin now generally refers to a pigment and a ...
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