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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ball clay

Art history; Visual arts

In ceramics, an ingredient included in a many clay bodies because of its plasticity. Ball clay may be black or gray in color but fires almost white. It contracts considerably as it dries and when ...

balloon framing

Art history; Visual arts

In architecture, a system of light timber-frame construction in which uprights or studs extend the full height of the frame and horizontal structural members are nailed to them.

ballpein hammer

Art history; Visual arts

A hammer which has one side of the head flattened for striking, and the other rounded for flattening rivets or forming a dome.

balustrade

Art history; Visual arts

A rail, usually about three feet high, supported by a series of posts (balusters), generally as along the outside edge of a stairway or gallery.

Bamboo is a fibrous plant, and materials obtained from it. Bamboo grows into poles comprised of segments with hollow cores, gradually tapering to their upper tips. Leaves grow from the ridges at the ...

banausic

Art history; Visual arts

Predominantly suggestive of functional and practical usage rather than decorative or ornamental. Or, common, ordinary, and undistinguished; dull and insipid.

base

Art history; Visual arts

A plinth or podium on which a sculpture is exhibited, or the portion of a sculpture on which its weight rests. The stepped base of a Greek temple is called a crepidoma. "Base" might also refer to the ...