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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abacus

Art history; Visual arts

In architecture, a flat slab on top of a capital, beneath an architrave. Also called an impost block.

abbozzo

Art history; Visual arts

In painting, blocking in — the first sketching done on the canvas, and also the first underpainting. In sculpture, a mass of material that has been carved or manipulated into a rough form of the ...

Having to do with the alphabet, or arranged in alphabetical order. Sometimes spelled ABCDarian. Among other ways of ordering things, it should be compared with numerical and chronological ordering, ...

accidental color

Art history; Visual arts

Color obtained by mixing on a painting's surface without conscious preliminary planning during the process of painting.

acculturation

Art history; Visual arts

Borrowing between cultures, or, the modifying of one person's or group's culture by contact with a different culture. Also, the process by which people acquire knowledge of the cultures in which they ...

acetate

Art history; Visual arts

The common name for a type of strong, transparent or semi-transparent sheets of plastic, available in various thicknesses, and used in making covers for artwork, as the basis for photographic film, ...

acetate color

Art history; Visual arts

Opaque, waterproof paint which doesn't crawl or peel when used on acetate, glass, foil, or other extremely smooth surface. Acetate ink is an ink which can be applied either with a pen or a brush, and ...