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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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emblem
Art history; Visual arts
Generally, an object or image that stands symbolically for a quality, action, state or class; more specifically, a drawing expressing a moral fable or allegory.
copyright
Art history; Visual arts
The right to publish, produce, sell, and/or distribute an artwork (or to delegate these functions), granted either to an artist or (in the united states) her representatives for seventy years ...
dada
Art history; Visual arts
A movement in visual art, literature, dance, and theatre that flourished in various urban centers around europe (including zurich, berlin and paris) following the first world war and that cultivated ...
cubism
Art history; Visual arts
A movement in painting that flourished mainly in paris in the first decades of the twentieth century, led by pablo picasso and georges braque (and greatly influenced by paul cezanne) that revolved ...
documentary
Art history; Visual arts
Anything designed to convey effectively the factual record on some topic (most often used of films); documentation is often the only material product of much conceptual and performance art that ...
duecento
Art history; Visual arts
From the Italian for “two hundred,” designating the thirteenth century (i.e. “one-thousand two hundreds”).
ekphrasis
Art history; Visual arts
From the greek for “description,” writing that proposes to give a verbal rendition of something visual, whether real or imagined, typically with the intent of inciting a mental image of a missing ...
