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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bauhaus

Art history; Visual arts

An influential movement in aesthetics, visual art, architecture and industrial design devoted to elegant simplicity of form, particularly as an integral aspect of the efficient, large-scale ...

A technique in etching in which a fine powder of resin is applied to a metal plate to be bitten in an acid bath in order to cover the plate, in whole or in parts, with a fine texture that yields even ...

automatism

Art history; Visual arts

The practice of making art that attempts to downplay conscious direction, giving free-play to unconscious or otherwise random impulses, though often within a predetermined set of material and ...

current era (CE)

Art history; Visual arts

Used in place of the christian a. D. (anno domini, latin for year of our lord), or dates following on the christian year 1, i.e. The putative date of the birth of jesus christ (see also bce).

circa

Art history; Visual arts

Latin for about, used to indicate the approximate date or dates of an event, life or other occurrence.

dolmen

Art history; Visual arts

A structure of large vertical stones supporting one or more horizontally, found largely in northern france and southern england, produced mainly during the third and second millennia bce; stonehenge ...

Egyptian

Art history; Visual arts

In the usage of this site, ancient art and architecture produced generally in the lands along the nile river between the mediterranean and present-day sudan and between the third millennium bce and ...