Visual arts

Visual arts

Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.

Industry: Art history

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egg tempera

Art history; Visual arts

A technique in painting that uses water and egg yolk as the medium to carry the pigment, usually applied to a wood board prepared with a white ground.

cathedral

Art history; Visual arts

The main church of a diocese containing the cathedra, or bishop’s chair.

axis

Art history; Visual arts

An imaginary straight line that runs through the middle of something, or about which things are arranged, typically according to material, geometric, or perceptual equilibrium.

gouge

Art history; Visual arts

A chisel with a concavo-convex cross section used in wood carving, woodcut and linocut. The head is usually metallic and it comes in different shapes (curved, "v" shaped, etc.).

printing press

Art history; Visual arts

A manual press used in the visual arts for printing the image of an engraved wood, linoleum or metal plate.

drawsome

Art history; Visual arts

Draw/Drawing+Awesome= Drawsome. Definition: a really good drawing or other piece of art (particularly of the sketching or pen/pencil & paper variety)

silhouette cutting

Culture; General culture

Silhouette cutting is traditional art unique to Japan in which a cutter armed with scissors and paper cuts out silhouettes and other images upon request using no pencil drawings or patterns.