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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background

Art history; Visual arts

In a picture, that which appears furthest from the viewer, often marked by a horizon line, and generally opposed to a foreground in which the main subject of the scene appears. Often, though not ...

Imagery made according to some standard other than a “true-to-life” representation. Abstraction may simplify, exaggerate, schematize, or otherwise change natural appearances, or it may depart from ...

color

Art history; Visual arts

The property characterizing visible light of varying wavelengths, the color of something being the wavelength of the light reflected by it; primary colors are red, blue and yellow/green, meaning that ...

dry point

Art history; Visual arts

A print technique in which a plate is incised with a pointed stylus in order to collect the ink, which is then transferred (typically) to dampened paper on receiving the impress of the plate. This is ...

agitprop

Art history; Visual arts

From “agitation” and “propaganda,” art that intends to motivate its viewers to political awareness and/or action.

conceptual

Art history; Visual arts

In art, works in which an immaterial idea (often a process) is as or more important than the work’s physical embodiment, which is often negligibly slight and/or un-enduring.

degenerate

Art history; Visual arts

A term used by germany’s national socialist (nazi) party in the 1930s and 1940s to designate artists and artworks that showed symptoms of moral and social decline.