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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phallic

Art history; Visual arts

Belonging to or resembling a phallus. According to luce irigaray, the phallus is primarily a visual object, erect and in clear view; she contrasts this to the vagina which is unseen, lacking in ...

The philosophic study of human experience in which separate analytical considerations of objective reality and subjective responses to it are, during the phenomenological investigation, left out, or ...

petroglyph

Art history; Visual arts

A drawing scratched or otherwise etched into a rock.

perspective

Art history; Visual arts

A method used to render the illusion of depth on a flat surface. There are several methods (including linear and aerial, defined above). In art and visual perception rudolf arnheim uses the term ...

period

Art history; Visual arts

An extended interval of time, understood usually within the context of an identifiable geographic region, characterized by a specific set of cultural, economic, social or technological practices.

performance art

Art history; Visual arts

Often planned, sometimes spontaneous events which may occur in an art gallery but can take place anywhere. Performances often involve the activity spectators as well as artists. While the performance ...

pediment

Art history; Visual arts

A low pitched gable above a classical style building. A pediment is the triangular space over doors and windows of a building influenced by greek architecture.