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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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abacus
Art history; Visual arts
In architecture, a flat slab on top of a capital, beneath an architrave. Also called an impost block.
abbozzo
Art history; Visual arts
In painting, blocking in — the first sketching done on the canvas, and also the first underpainting. In sculpture, a mass of material that has been carved or manipulated into a ...
abecedarian
Art history; Visual arts
Having to do with the alphabet, or arranged in alphabetical order. Sometimes spelled ABCDarian. Among other ways of ordering things, it should be compared with numerical and ...
accidental color
Art history; Visual arts
Color obtained by mixing on a painting's surface without conscious preliminary planning during the process of painting.
acculturation
Art history; Visual arts
Borrowing between cultures, or, the modifying of one person's or group's culture by contact with a different culture. Also, the process by which people acquire knowledge of the ...
acetate
Art history; Visual arts
The common name for a type of strong, transparent or semi-transparent sheets of plastic, available in various thicknesses, and used in making covers for artwork, as the basis for ...
acetate color
Art history; Visual arts
Opaque, waterproof paint which doesn't crawl or peel when used on acetate, glass, foil, or other extremely smooth surface. Acetate ink is an ink which can be applied either with a ...
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