Art history

Art history

Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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proportion

Art history; Visual arts

The relation of the part to the whole. In art, it may refer to the search for the lengths of parts of the human body to the size of the whole person. The search for such rules, in ...

print

Art history; Visual arts

An impression, picture, or a design from a plate, block, stone, type face, photographic image or other medium fixed to a sheet of paper, cloth, or similar plane surface.

portrait

Art history; Visual arts

A two- or three-dimensional representation of a person (or group), concerned mainly with faithful recording of physiognomy, identifying its subject(s) as unique historical ...

prehistoric

Art history; Visual arts

Any time or thing that predates recorded (pictorial or literary) history, generally covering anything older than the second millennium bce.

primary colors

Art history; Visual arts

The three colors red, blue and yellow. All other colors are obtainable from these primaries. Secondaries such as purple (red and blue) or green (blue and yellow) are made from two ...