Visual arts

Visual arts

Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.

Contributors in Visual arts

Visual arts

An italian word meaning smoke, describing a smooth shift in tone from light to dark in shadows on objects, as distinct from sharp or stepwise gradations of contrast. Leonardo da vinci regarded the ...

sculpture

Art history; Visual arts

Art in three dimensional forms, whether made by carving, chiseling, modeling or casting. While sculpture and painting are often seen as distinct arts, they have also been practiced together, as in ...

semiotics

Art history; Visual arts

The study of signs, systems of signs and the social production of signs. It is also known as semiology. Based on the arbitrary nature of communication systems, semiotics examines how signs are ...

school

Art history; Visual arts

A group whose work shares common stylistic traits. Sometimes a work is attributed to the school of an artist when a confident attribution cannot be made. In art, the term school does not refer to a ...

schema

Art history; Visual arts

An outline, a simplified representation. Also, a schema may be a template or pattern for ordering objects, material or ideal.

saturation

Art history; Visual arts

In material color and mixtures of color, saturation describes vividness or purity of hue. A color has a high saturation when there is no admixture of any other hue, nor any white or black. Saturation ...

realism

Art history; Visual arts

(with a capital ‘r’) refers to mid-nineteenth century art works that deliberately represented wretched and even ugly subjects, usually for a political reason. The term was first used to describe ...