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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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etching
Art history; Visual arts
A form of intaglio printmaking in which a plate (typically of metal) is coated with some manner of ground, i.e. A substance that resists the action of an acid that is used to incise the plate where ...
eros
Art history; Visual arts
A greek term, it names romantic or physical love, as well as the mythological son of aphrodite, goddess of love, and ares, god of war (cupid, venus, and mars in their roman appellations); hence ...
entablature
Art history; Visual arts
That portion of a classical building above the columns, including the architrave, frieze and cornice.
zen buddhism
Art history; Visual arts
A school of buddhism that asserts enlightenment can be attained through meditative self-contemplation.
yellow
Art history; Visual arts
One of the primary colors, appearing on the spectrum between orange and green.
x-ray
Art history; Visual arts
A photograph using an x-ray. X-ray images have been used to identify what lies under the surface of a painting, including prior works or studies and sketches.
xerography
Art history; Visual arts
A dry photocopying process in which an image is transferred electrically and fixed on a piece of paper or other surface.