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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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mosaic
Art history; 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.
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 ...
