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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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biscuit
Art history; Visual arts
Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. In this sense, also called bisque.
bit-mapped image or bitmap image
Art history; Visual arts
A digital image generated by a series of bits and bytes, resulting in an image displayed as a grid of pixels, each a specific color and gray scale value. Most images on the Web ...
bitumen
Art history; Visual arts
A tarry substance formerly used as an oil color, now obsolete because of its tendency to crack and darken.
black-figure
Art history; Visual arts
In ancient Greek pottery, a technique in which dark figures were silhouetted against a light background of natural, reddish clay.
blanc de Chine
Art history; Visual arts
The Western name (from the French) for the Chinese porcelain made at Tê Hua (Dehua) in Fukien (Fujian) Province in southeast China from the seventeenth century (Ming Dynasty). ...
blanket
Art history; Visual arts
The felt or foam rubber used between the paper and the roller on an intaglio press. Also, a rubber-surfaced fabric used on the cylinder of an offset printing press.
Blaue Vier
Art history; Visual arts
German for "the blue four." An alliance formed in 1924 by four painters, Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944), Lyonel Feininger (German-American, ...
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