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Visual arts

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

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proportion

Art history; Visual arts

The relation of the part to the whole. In art, it may refer to the search for the lengths of parts of the human body to the size of the whole person. The search for such rules, in written form, go ...

print

Art history; Visual arts

An impression, picture, or a design from a plate, block, stone, type face, photographic image or other medium fixed to a sheet of paper, cloth, or similar plane surface.

portrait

Art history; Visual arts

A two- or three-dimensional representation of a person (or group), concerned mainly with faithful recording of physiognomy, identifying its subject(s) as unique historical individual(s).

prehistoric

Art history; Visual arts

Any time or thing that predates recorded (pictorial or literary) history, generally covering anything older than the second millennium bce.

primary colors

Art history; Visual arts

The three colors red, blue and yellow. All other colors are obtainable from these primaries. Secondaries such as purple (red and blue) or green (blue and yellow) are made from two primaries. ...

plastic

Art history; Visual arts

That which can be modeled, or, alternatively, can be depicted as having three dimensions.

porch

Art history; Visual arts

A covered structure open on the front and sides connected to an entrance into an adjoined building.

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