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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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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 ...
sculpture
Art history; Visual arts
Art in three dimensional forms, whether made by carving, chiseling, modeling or casting. While sculpture and painting are often seen as distinct arts, they have also been ...
semiotics
Art history; Visual arts
The study of signs, systems of signs and the social production of signs. It is also known as semiology. Based on the arbitrary nature of communication systems, semiotics examines ...
school
Art history; Visual arts
A group whose work shares common stylistic traits. Sometimes a work is attributed to the school of an artist when a confident attribution cannot be made. In art, the term school ...
schema
Art history; Visual arts
An outline, a simplified representation. Also, a schema may be a template or pattern for ordering objects, material or ideal.
saturation
Art history; Visual arts
In material color and mixtures of color, saturation describes vividness or purity of hue. A color has a high saturation when there is no admixture of any other hue, nor any white ...
realism
Art history; Visual arts
(with a capital ‘r’) refers to mid-nineteenth century art works that deliberately represented wretched and even ugly subjects, usually for a political reason. The term was first ...
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