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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facture

Art history; Visual arts

An adopted french word for describing the manner in which a painting is made, especially concerning the quality of its surface, and hence of the handling of the paint.

façade

Art history; Visual arts

The principle front or ‘face’ of a building, usually considered a primary marker of the building’s architectural style.

expressionism

Art history; Visual arts

Generally, any art form concerned mainly with conveying an artist’s emotions. More specifically, the term has come to be used particularly of various movements in later-nineteenth and twentieth ...

empiricism

Art history; Visual arts

The philosophical stance that all human concepts and knowledge are derived ultimately from sense experience.

engraving

Art history; Visual arts

A form of intaglio printmaking in which a plate (typically of metal) is manually cut unto using a graver to make grooves into which ink can then be trapped and transferred onto paper (or other ...

enlightenment

Art history; Visual arts

This term generally designates a period in european intellectual history, also known as the “age of reason,” beginning in the seventeenth and peaking in the eighteenth century (and thus largely ...

One of the four writers of the gospels of the christian bible: matthew, mark, luke, or john, sometimes represented in (particularly medieval and renaissance) artworks by their conventional symbols: ...