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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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egg tempera
Art history; Visual arts
A technique in painting that uses water and egg yolk as the medium to carry the pigment, usually applied to a wood board prepared with a white ground.
cathedral
Art history; Visual arts
The main church of a diocese containing the cathedra, or bishop’s chair.
axis
Art history; Visual arts
An imaginary straight line that runs through the middle of something, or about which things are arranged, typically according to material, geometric, or perceptual equilibrium.
gouge
Art history; Visual arts
A chisel with a concavo-convex cross section used in wood carving, woodcut and linocut. The head is usually metallic and it comes in different shapes (curved, "v" shaped, etc.).
printing press
Art history; Visual arts
A manual press used in the visual arts for printing the image of an engraved wood, linoleum or metal plate.
drawsome
Art history; Visual arts
Draw/Drawing+Awesome= Drawsome. Definition: a really good drawing or other piece of art (particularly of the sketching or pen/pencil & paper variety)
silhouette cutting
Culture; General culture
Silhouette cutting is traditional art unique to Japan in which a cutter armed with scissors and paper cuts out silhouettes and other images upon request using no pencil drawings ...
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