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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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paint
Art history; Visual arts
A liquid (i.e. A “medium” or “vehicle,” including an adhesive “binder”) mixed with colored pigments which can be applied to a surface.
painterly
Art history; Visual arts
A style of painting in which shapes are distinguished by color rather than line or contour.
oil painting
Art history; Visual arts
Since the mid-sixteenth century, the most usual medium for painting. Pigments are mixed with the slow-drying medium of oil and applied to a canvas or on a wooden panel treated ...
optics
Art history; Visual arts
optics, is the scientific study of light and vision, optical is adj.
neo-classicism
Art history; Visual arts
An artistic movement dating roughly from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century. It sought to revive the aesthetics of greek and roman antiquity, but differed ...
nostalgia
Art history; Visual arts
A longing for things no longer present, coined in the seventeenth century originally to mean homesick, from greek terms nostos, or homecoming and algos, or distress.
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