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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apprentice

Art history; Visual arts

A person who is learning an art, a craft or occupation from one or more masters of that work. This was the prevailing means of entering many professions in Europe from the Middle Ages to the ...

A specified amount of time in which a person, called an apprentice, becomes bound by legal agreement to work for another, his master, in return for instruction in an art, a craft, or a business. Once ...

apsara

Art history; Visual arts

In India, a nymph of the sky or air. In Chinese Buddhism, a heavenly maiden.

acetone

Art history; Visual arts

A volatile solvent, commonly used with lacquers and in paint-removers; also known as dimethyl ketone and 2-propanone. It is soluble in water and alcohol. It is non-photochemically reactive. One of ...

acetylene

Art history; Visual arts

A colorless gas burned in combination with oxygen for oxyacetylene welding. Explosive, especially if used in welding with gauge pressures over 15 psig (30 psig absolute). It has a garlic-like odor. ...

achromatic

Art history; Visual arts

Color having no chroma — black, white and grays made by mixing black and white. All other colors employ chromatic pigments.

acid

Art history; Visual arts

Any of a large class of substances capable of reacting with and dissolving certain metals into salts, and of reacting with bases or alkalis to form salts. Acids can weaken cellulose in papers, ...