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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paint

Art history; Visual arts

A liquid (i.e. A “medium” or “vehicle,” including an adhesive “binder”) mixed with colored pigments which can be applied to a surface.

painterly

Art history; Visual arts

A style of painting in which shapes are distinguished by color rather than line or contour.

Since the mid-sixteenth century, the most usual medium for painting. Pigments are mixed with the slow-drying medium of oil and applied to a canvas or on a wooden panel treated with gesso, a mixture ...

optics

Art history; Visual arts

optics, is the scientific study of light and vision, optical is adj.

neo-classicism

Art history; Visual arts

An artistic movement dating roughly from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century. It sought to revive the aesthetics of greek and roman antiquity, but differed from previous ...

niche

Art history; Visual arts

A recess in a wall, sometimes for a statue.

nostalgia

Art history; Visual arts

A longing for things no longer present, coined in the seventeenth century originally to mean homesick, from greek terms nostos, or homecoming and algos, or distress.