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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found

Art history; Visual arts

In art, elements that are encountered and incorporated fully-formed into a work, sometimes themselves forming the whole work altogether, whether displayed singly or in composition.

In art, used to indicate an analytical approach that describes all those features of a work that are purely structural as opposed to representational or intrinsically meaningful, i.e. Aspects such as ...

foreshortening

Art history; Visual arts

A way of representing an object as seen along its axis, often such that it appears to be approaching or receding from a viewer.

foreground

Art history; Visual arts

In a picture, that which appears closest to the viewer.

folio

Art history; Visual arts

A book or manuscript that consists of large sheets (around a foot or more in height) of paper folded once to make the sequence of pages; the term may also be used to indicate one such page in a ...

focal point

Art history; Visual arts

That which in an image forms the center of interest or attention, whether through purely formal means or through the specific meaning it has within the image and/or for viewers.

flourished

Art history; Visual arts

Indicates dates or specific time periods within which an artist did their most important work, particularly when exact birth and death dates are unknown.