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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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adobe
Art history; Visual arts
An adobe, traditionally, is a sun-dried, unfired brick of clay, sand, and straw. Contemporary makers of adobes sometimes introduce additional or alternative binders or aggregates. ...
adsorption
Art history; Visual arts
When a thin layer of a substance adheres strongly to another, holding to it on a molecular level as if it were glued to it. This situation is more likely to occur with substances ...
adhesives
Art history; Visual arts
Substances, like glues, pastes, cements, which cause adhesion, or stickiness. Various types include mucilage, rubber cement, hot glue, epoxy, cyanoacrylic and silicone. Some are ...
adze
Art history; Visual arts
A tool used in wood carving to rough out a form. It is similar to an ax, but the blade is set horizontally in the handle, sloping downwards. It is used for much the same purpose ...
Aegean art
Art history; Visual arts
Generally refers to works of Crete, Mycenae, and the Cyclades, from 2600-1200 BCE. Aegean painting is colorful and stylized, but with a strong feeling for naturalism.
aerial view
Art history; Visual arts
Seeing from a point of view at a great height, also called a bird's-eye view. Any picture in which the horizon line, and consequently the vanishing point (-s), have been placed ...
Arts Education Partnership (AEP)
Art history; Visual arts
The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is an American national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government ...
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