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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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aperture
Art history; Visual arts
An opening. In photography, the circular hole in the front of the camera lens which controls the amount of light allowed to pass on to the film from the lens. On all but very ...
aniline dyes
Art history; Visual arts
Colors made from coal tar. These are generally considered obsolete because they are not colorfast. This class of dyes was stumbled upon by the English chemist William Henry Perkin ...
anima
Art history; Visual arts
The inner self of a person. In Jungian psychology, a person's unconscious or true inner self — the feminine inner personality in the unconscious of the male, in contrast to the ...
animalia
Art history; Visual arts
Sculpture of animals, especially referring to the work made by the nineteenth century French Romantic school lead by Antoine Louis Barye (1796-1875). Such a sculptor is called an ...
animism
Art history; Visual arts
The belief that everything, whether animate or inanimate, possesses a soul or spirit. It is a fundamental system of belief in the religions of numerous pre-industrial societies. ...
anneal
Art history; Visual arts
To heat and then cool metal or glass is to toughen or temper it — to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work when cool. In other words, this heating and slow cooling ...
annotation
Art history; Visual arts
Information added to an image, such as arrows, pointers, words, etc. Annotations to a digital image might be stored in layers separate from the image.
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