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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gilt

Art history; Visual arts

Covered in gold, typically of thinly beaten sheets.

From the german for form, configuration, or appearance, designates a whole that recognizably has parts, but can only be experienced as an indivisible unity (rather than synthesized through a prior ...

geometry

Art history; Visual arts

In art, any aspect of shape or form that displays or suggests the elements of spatial mathematics, such as straight or regularly curved lines, triangles, squares (among shapes) or pyramids and cubes ...

genre

Art history; Visual arts

In painting and graphic arts, images which depict scenes of common daily life, which were particularly popular and important in the art of seventeenth century holland; more broadly the term ...

gallery

Art history; Visual arts

A room, building or entire institution in which artworks are displayed for viewing and/or sale; the word derives from medieval latin galilaea, the far end or “porch” of a church (so named after ...

fragment

Art history; Visual arts

A piece of a work, physically separated from a whole.

fresco

Art history; Visual arts

From the italian for fresh, a technique in painting in which pigment is diluted in water and then applied directly to new coats of wall plaster such that the color becomes fast within the surface ...