Visual arts

Visual arts

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

Contributors in Visual arts

Visual arts

An adobe, traditionally, is a sun-dried, unfired brick of clay, sand, and straw. Contemporary makers of adobes sometimes introduce additional or alternative binders or aggregates. This construction ...

adsorption

Art history; Visual arts

When a thin layer of a substance adheres strongly to another, holding to it on a molecular level as if it were glued to it. This situation is more likely to occur with substances in a gelatinous ...

adhesives

Art history; Visual arts

Substances, like glues, pastes, cements, which cause adhesion, or stickiness. Various types include mucilage, rubber cement, hot glue, epoxy, cyanoacrylic and silicone. Some are available in spray-on ...

adze

Art history; Visual arts

A tool used in wood carving to rough out a form. It is similar to an ax, but the blade is set horizontally in the handle, sloping downwards. It is used for much the same purpose as a wood chisel and ...

Aegean art

Art history; Visual arts

Generally refers to works of Crete, Mycenae, and the Cyclades, from 2600-1200 BCE. Aegean painting is colorful and stylized, but with a strong feeling for naturalism.

aerial view

Art history; Visual arts

Seeing from a point of view at a great height, also called a bird's-eye view. Any picture in which the horizon line, and consequently the vanishing point (-s), have been placed near or above the top ...

Arts Education Partnership (AEP)

Art history; Visual arts

The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is an American national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations that ...