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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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ambiguity
Art history; Visual arts
Something open to two or more possible meanings; amphibolous. Alternating figures and other optical illusions may be helpful visual examples. In visual art, as in expository ...
ambulatory
Art history; Visual arts
A continuous aisle around a circular building, or a semi-circular aisle curving around the apse of a church behind the main altar. Developed during the Romanesque period, it made ...
art for art's sake
Art history; Visual arts
Any of several points of view related to the possibility of art being independent of concerns that order other disciplines. The term is primarily used regarding artists and ...
artifact
Art history; Visual arts
An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a rudimentary art form or object, as in the products of prehistoric workmanship. Only in the last ten or twenty years works ...
artificial
Art history; Visual arts
Made in imitation of nature by human beings rather than by nature; simulated. This may be intended and interpreted to carry either positive, negative or neutral ideas. A negative ...
artistic temperament
Art history; Visual arts
A catch-all reference to artists' more peculiar attitudes, emotions, or behaviors which observers often attribute to being elements of artists' creative activities. Artists ...
Artist Pension Trust (APT)
Art history; Visual arts
An organization offering a plan allowing artists to invest their own works toward a pension plan — eventual retirement income. APT's site says the organization, "is designed to ...
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- General art history (13487)
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- Visual arts (11058)