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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decoration

Art history; Visual arts

Something which adds beauty, distinct from an object’s purely representational or functional qualities.

abstract expressionism

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in painting that flourished from the late-1940s through the 1950s, mainly in new york city (and thus also known as the new york school). Under the rubric of “action painting,” its ...

color field painting

Art history; Visual arts

Sometimes considered as a development of abstract expressionism, composes images out of large, juxtaposed areas of single colors. Key figures include mark rothko, jules olitski and helen ...

cenacolo

Art history; Visual arts

Italian word derived from latin coenaculum, or “a room where one ate,” used to designate the room of the last supper between christ and his disciples, and hence paintings with that subject.

art

Art history; Visual arts

In the usage of this website, any human activity requiring consciously applied skills, and/or material objects or events considered specifically as embodiments of such skills. Art history is the ...

bestiary

Art history; Visual arts

A graphic and literary genre particularly popular in medieval europe that collected images and descriptions of animals, real and imaginary, often along with allegorical moral lessons or stories.