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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Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

Art history; Visual arts

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao is a Taiwanese artist who was born in 1977. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1999 at the age of 22 to study photography. There, he immediately took residence in Queens, New ...

alabastron

Art history; Visual arts

A container for perfumed oil that takes its name from alabaster, the material from which the original Egyptian examples were made. Greek artists adopted the Egyptian alabastron's form in the 600s ...

alabaster

Art history; Visual arts

A white or yellowish white translucent stone, which is a type of gypsum found in England and Italy. Its softness makes it easy to carve, but also easily broken, soiled, and weathered. The ...

A sense of isolation, depersonalization, disenchantment, estrangement, or powerlessness. Alienation has been considered an especially important issue during the twentieth century. It's often noted as ...

align

Art history; Visual arts

In graphic design, to align is to line up type and other graphic elements on the same vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line.

alignment

Art history; Visual arts

Alignment is the positioning of the characters in a line of type in exact juxtaposition with each other and with accompanying lines. It is also the positioning of printed pages in exact juxtaposition ...

alizarin

Art history; Visual arts

Originally a bright red pigment, also called madder lake, made from madder, derived from the root of the plant Rubia tinctorum. Alizarin now generally refers to a pigment and a class of dyes derived ...