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

A muscular male nude, either carved or painted, acting as a column or pillar, carrying an architrave or other architectural element. This is the male counterpart of a caryatid. Named after Atlas, the ...

atrium

Art history; Visual arts

In architecture, an inner courtyard, often colonnaded or given a glass ceiling, and often at the entrance of a public building.

attribute

Art history; Visual arts

An object often associated with a person, character, or office. Examples are the crown jewels of a king, the trident of Neptune, and the caduceus of a physician.

audience

Art history; Visual arts

Any viewer, reader, or listener, either alone or with others. This often refers to those people for whose gaze a work is intended, although at present the identity of those viewers is largely ...

automaton

Art history; Visual arts

Any thing that can move or act by itself — a mechanical thing which automatically performs certain actions in response to preset controls, such as a metronome, a toy with clock-works, a revolving ...

avant-garde

Art history; Visual arts

French for vanguard. Artists and their work which stand in the forefront of a movement or of new ideas, often in opposition to established ideas and traditions; art that's ahead of its time, ...

avatar

Art history; Visual arts

In Hinduism, an incarnation of a god. "Avatar" can also refer to an archetype — to an embodiment, as of a quality or a concept. In cyberspace — online, in virtual reality, chat rooms, or in ...