Visual arts

Visual arts

Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.

Contributors in Visual arts

Visual arts

Passed by congress in 1791 in qualification of the main body of the u. S. Constitution, it reads: “congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise ...

finish

Art history; Visual arts

In painting or sculpture, the degree to which a surface has been worked, and hence the quality of that surface in material terms.

figure

Art history; Visual arts

In art, generally the form of anything that an artist depicts against a background, i.e. The subject of an image; more specifically, the term usually denotes the human form, and most often in its ...

figurative

Art history; Visual arts

In art, representational, or more generally, images that seemingly depict objects (whether existing, recognizable or not); figurative language is that which uses metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, or ...

field

Art history; Visual arts

In art, this can be the actual surface on which marks or images are made; the encompassing background of an image (i.e. The apparent surface or area of the image); or a (relatively) flat area within ...

fetish

Art history; Visual arts

A term derived from portuguese sailors’ word for small objects worshipped by inhabitants of the guinea coast, now designating any thing irrationally revered, held in awe or fear, or exciting sexual ...