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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naïve art

Art history; Visual arts

Art produced by an individual who has no formal training. The work and background of the naïve artist contrasts with the training and career paths followed by the traditional artists of that ...

myths

Art history; Visual arts

The traditional narratives of any culturally bound group, typically exemplified in stories and/or characters that have emotional and cognitive resonance with such a group and that represents its ...

model

Art history; Visual arts

In the visual arts, some thing that serves as the subject of a representation, often used of persons sitting for portraits (i.e. A “sitter”), or of the person depicted bodily in nudes and other ...

Of the present, or, increasingly, of recent times, in its use as a designator of a cultural movement that dominated most of the twentieth century. In fact, the historical limits of the modern are a ...

movement

Art history; Visual arts

In static visual arts, the perceptual effect or illusion of movement, effected by the elements of an image that lure the eye to perceive change. The way the eye views an image can be described as a ...