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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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bathos
Art history; Visual arts
The disappointment resulting from insincere or grossly sentimental attempts to elicit sympathy or pity. Banality; triteness.
batik
Art history; Visual arts
A method of dyeing cloth which involves the use of removable wax to repel (resist) the dye on parts of the design where dye is not desired. Batik originated in Indonesia, where its production ...
batter
Art history; Visual arts
To slope inward (receding from bottom to top), often almost imperceptibly, or such an inward slope of a wall. Walls have most often been battered for structural reasons.
bay
Art history; Visual arts
In architecture, a subdivision or compartment of a building. In Romanesque and Gothic churches, the space between one column or pier and the next, including the vault or ceiling above it.
BC or B.C.
Art history; Visual arts
Abbreviation for "Before Christ." Conventionally placed after a number standing for a year computed by counting back from the year once thought to be the year Christ was born. He is now most commonly ...
BCE or B.C.E.
Art history; Visual arts
Abbreviation for "Before the Common era." This is used alternatively to BC or B.C. Use of BCE is now preferred to BC because it avoids the overtly Christian bias inherent in BC.
bad-debt art
Art history; Visual arts
Art that is sold or donated because the owner is deeply in debt. When a work of art attains this status, its market value is typically much lower than it had been recently. This term has been seen in ...
