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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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woodcut
Art history; Visual arts
A print made from an incised block of wood on which the surface left after cutting is covered with ink and impressed onto paper or other suitable sheeted material.
wash
Art history; Visual arts
A thin layer of diluted pigment used to increase the appearance of a shadow.
weight
Art history; Visual arts
A dynamic effect in a picture created in the perception of the viewer. Rudolf arnheim describes weight and direction as the influences on the viewer’s perception of equilibrium in a picture, achieved ...
visual
Art history; Visual arts
Pertaining to the sense of sight; something producing an image in the mind.
wabi-sabi
Art history; Visual arts
A japanese word for an aesthetic centered on the acceptance of the imperfection and transience of all things.
virtual image
Art history; Visual arts
An image from which rays of light appear as from a mirror; a virtual focus is a point in a mirror from which rays appear to diverge.
vanishing point
Art history; Visual arts
The point where lines bounding surfaces depicted as parallel in a picture plane meet, somewhere on the horizon line of the image.
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