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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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metonymy
Art history; Visual arts
A figure of speech in which a word or idea is used to stand for something larger or more complex of which it is a part or connected with somehow. Hence, for example, journalists often refer to the ...
metric
Art history; Visual arts
A standard of measure, often specifically used of the system of measure based on decimal divisions developed in europe, and especially france, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
lithography
Art history; Visual arts
A printing process in which an image is represented on a flat surface that has been treated so that some areas retain ink, others repel it. Originally the flat surface was limestone, but now a ...
metaphor
Art history; Visual arts
Sometimes used to refer to figurative language in general, metaphor specifically is a figure of speech in which a term or name is transferred to something to which it is not strictly applicable. It ...
medium
Art history; Visual arts
On of the various materials used and creative methods involved in artistic production, media being the plural form (though this latter term is often used more specifically of the various forms in ...
mausoleum
Art history; Visual arts
A large, imposing tomb. The name comes from mausolus, a king of caria; his tomb, the mausoleum of halicarnassus, was regarded as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
