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

The transfer of an acid from an acidic material to a less acidic or pH neutral material, most often from one with which it is in contact. Since acid can cause certain materials, such as paper, and ...

acrolith

Art history; Visual arts

An ancient Greek sculpture in which the head and arms and feet were made of marble or some other stone. Greek for "stone-ended." At first an acrolith was considered to be a wooden sculpture with ...

Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI)

Art history; Visual arts

This is an international association whose members are over 210 art and creative material manufacturers. Founded in 1940, ACMI is an authority on art and craft materials. Its principal goal is to ...

analog-to-digital conversion

Art history; Visual arts

The electronic process of changing continuously varying wave-form data into digital quantities that represent the magnitude of the data at the moment the conversion is made. The most common use is to ...

analogy

Art history; Visual arts

A comparison between things based upon observations of a significant similarity between them, while acknowledging that they are otherwise dissimilar. Makers of analogies generally infer that if these ...

analytic

Art history; Visual arts

Having to do with analysis — dividing into elemental parts or basic principles. Reasoning or acting from a perception of the parts and their interrelationships. In philosophy, the opposite of ...

anamorphosis

Art history; Visual arts

An image that appears distorted, because it is constructed on an elongated grid, rendering it unintelligible until it is viewed from a specific, extremely oblique point of view or reflected in a ...