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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paleolithic

Art history; Visual arts

Of the stone age, a period within the pleistocene epoch, during which human ancestors used tools made from stones, from about two and a half million to about ten thousand years bce.

palette

Art history; Visual arts

A board on which an artist mixes colors; often there is a thumbhole for ease of holding. More generally palette refers to the range of colors or hues a painter has used in a painting or group of ...

A (typically) thin mass of plant fibers in sheets or rolls that serves to bear marks from various media (paints, graphite, charcoal, etc. ) And may serve as a background to a picture made from such ...

passage

Art history; Visual arts

In visual art, a segment or well-defined but not isolated area of a larger work.

parergon

Art history; Visual arts

A greek word that means subordinate, beside the main subject. In the truth in painting, jacques derrida extends a brief mention of this term in immanuel kant’s critique of judgment (wherein it ...

orientalism

Art history; Visual arts

The use in an image of something characteristic of the arts of cultures from northern africa and the eastern end of the mediterranean through the southern half of the continent of asia.