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Fine art
Of, or pertaining to the creation of, any visual art that was considered to have been created for purely aesthetic purposes.
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trompe l'oeil
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A loanword from French which literally translates to 'fool the eye.' It is used to refer to visual deception. Typically through a two-dimensional representation that is so lifelike that it looks ...
thumbnail sketch
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Crude, small pencil drawings used to develop the initial concept for a design.
textured canvas
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Textured canvas prints—such as Howard Terpning's Opening the Sacred Bundle—are published on a very selective basis. This unique and valuable technique replicates the look and feel of an original ...
texture
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The tactile surface characteristics of a work of art that are either felt or perceived visually.
surrealism
Arts & crafts; Fine art
An art style developed in Europe in the 1920's, characterized by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas. Surrealist paintings often depict ...
still life
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A painting or other two-dimensional work of art representing inanimate objects such as bottles, fruit, and flowers. Also, the arrangement of these objects from which a drawing, painting, or other art ...
