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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ambiguity

Art history; Visual arts

Something open to two or more possible meanings; amphibolous. Alternating figures and other optical illusions may be helpful visual examples. In visual art, as in expository writing, ambiguity is ...

A continuous aisle around a circular building, or a semi-circular aisle curving around the apse of a church behind the main altar. Developed during the Romanesque period, it made it easier for large ...

art for art's sake

Art history; Visual arts

Any of several points of view related to the possibility of art being independent of concerns that order other disciplines. The term is primarily used regarding artists and artwriters of the second ...

artifact

Art history; Visual arts

An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a rudimentary art form or object, as in the products of prehistoric workmanship. Only in the last ten or twenty years works of various native ...

artificial

Art history; Visual arts

Made in imitation of nature by human beings rather than by nature; simulated. This may be intended and interpreted to carry either positive, negative or neutral ideas. A negative interpretation might ...

artistic temperament

Art history; Visual arts

A catch-all reference to artists' more peculiar attitudes, emotions, or behaviors which observers often attribute to being elements of artists' creative activities. Artists invariably do some things ...

Artist Pension Trust (APT)

Art history; Visual arts

An organization offering a plan allowing artists to invest their own works toward a pension plan — eventual retirement income. APT's site says the organization, "is designed to meet specific needs of ...