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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celtic

Art history; Visual arts

In art historical terms, works produced by the celtic peoples, in western europe from around 450 bce to the first century ce, and in the british isles and ireland especially during the first ...

convention

Art history; Visual arts

An agreement or customary manner of doing something.

cinema

Art history; Visual arts

Coined in the last decade of the 19th century from the greek for “movement,” this term names the medium that presents images in rapid succession, typically to simulate naturalistic movement.

critique

Art history; Visual arts

The production of a critic (professional or otherwise); properly, this is a combination of description and judgment.

In roman catholic regions, the term designates the three days of festivities that precede the forty day fast of lent; in the u. S. The best known example of carnival is the mardi-gras (literally fat ...

design

Art history; Visual arts

Related to composition as the overall arrangement of an artwork’s elements, particularly in the usage of italian renaissance aesthetics, in which the term disegno applied especially to a work’s ...

craft

Art history; Visual arts

The skill which goes into a work; as applied to the material results of such skills, the term is often used to separate certain genres of aesthetic production (often in connection with something ...