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

Sometimes simply called an academy, an academic figure is a two-dimensionally drawn or painted figure of a nude model, about half-size, typically used for instruction and not considered a work of art ...

all-over painting

Art history; Visual arts

A painting surface which is treated as a continuous and indivisible surface, paint applied so that every portion receives equal attention. First used to describe the method of Jackson Pollock ...

alloy

Art history; Visual arts

A metal produced by combining two or more metals — mixed together at the molecular level, in their molten state. Examples of alloys: brass, britannia, bronze, electrum, nichrome, niello, pewter and ...

allusion

Art history; Visual arts

An indirect reference to something or someone presumed to be familiar to the viewer, in order to increase the effect of an image. A citation.

Almohad style

Art history; Visual arts

An art style introduced into Spain by the Almohads, a Moroccan Berber dynasty, in the 1100s and 1200s.

altered proportion

Art history; Visual arts

A technique used by an artist to change the size relationship of shapes in an artwork.

alternating figures

Art history; Visual arts

Ambiguous images which serve in the psychology of perception to demonstrate the way the mind habitually tries to achieve a coherent Gestalt. These are often seen as optical illusions.