Visual arts

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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portal

Art history; Visual arts

portal from Greek ''porta''=door, meaning the external door of entrance.

That which adds breadth to a line; a level surface. Plane surface may be contrasted with depth. In sculpture, planes define the surfaces of solid elements, in contrast to empty spaces between. In on ...

pigment

Art history; Visual arts

A substance, organic or synthetic, used in coloring, often in the form of fine powders mixed within some suspending medium or vehicle.

pier

Art history; Visual arts

A strong, solid support of a building that may be either round or square in cross section.

photograph

Art history; Visual arts

Literally “light-drawing,” the recording and reproducing of images on light sensitive material using one of various chemical processes. The first photographs date from the early nineteenth ...

pictograph

Art history; Visual arts

A hieroglyph or pictorial representation of a word or idea. Pictography is the study of writing systems that use these symbols.

picture

Art history; Visual arts

A visual representation or image on a flat surface. A picture may, for example, be painted, drawn, photographed, collaged, or otherwise produced by some combination or modification of such means.