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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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aertist
Art history; Visual arts
What contemporary Russian emigré painter and conceptual artist Aleksandr Melamid (1945-) calls himself, instead of an artist. He has refused to define what the term means, except ...
aesthetic experience
Art history; Visual arts
Experience of intrinsic features of things or events traditionally recognized as worthy of attention and reflection, such as literal, visual, and expressive qualities, which are ...
aesthetician
Art history; Visual arts
A specialist in aesthetics. Curiously, some time in the twentieth century, those who specialize in giving facials, manicures, pedicures, and other beauty treatments also came to ...
aestheticism
Art history; Visual arts
The belief that the pursuit of beauty is the most important goal, and that it is the artist's duty to orchestrate selected elements from nature into a composition that, like ...
aesthetic value
Art history; Visual arts
The value (worth) a thing or event has due to its capacity to evoke pleasure that is recognized as arising from features in the object traditionally considered worthy of ...
airbrush
Art history; Visual arts
A precision spray gun attached by a hose to an electric air compressor (or other means of air pressure), or the use of this device to spray paints, dyes or inks. A great ...
ala
Art history; Visual arts
An ala is a winglike structure or part in anatomy, such as the external ear. It more commonly refers to the ala of the nose: that membrane to the outside of each nostril. The alar ...
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