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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Visual arts

A design made by setting colored objects in mortar. It is one of the oldest forms of decoration. Early mosaics were typically made on floors, though in both the byzantine east and in western europe ...

monument

Art history; Visual arts

A structure, a statue, or other physical marker intended to commemorate an event or a life, which may over time acquire its own status as historically significant.

mezzotint

Art history; Visual arts

An intaglio printmaking method of engraving a copper or steel plate by scraping and pitting it with finely edged and pointed tools to produce graduated grey shades for the depiction of light and ...

middle ground

Art history; Visual arts

The area between the foreground and background in a painting, drawing or photograph, sometimes also referred to as “middle distance. ”

mihrab

Art history; Visual arts

An arch or niche, flat or concave in the wall of a mosque, for example, which indicates the direction of prayer (qibla) for a moslem.

minaret

Art history; Visual arts

A tower attached to a mosque, often used for the call to prayer.

minbar

Art history; Visual arts

A pulpit in a mosque. They are often made of wood, sometimes of stone, and are frequently decorated with carvings or glazed ceramics. The friday sermon is frequently given from the minbar during ...