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More Art Terms
Visual Art vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| vanishing point | in linear perspective, the point on the hoizon line where parallel lines appear to converge |
| vanitas | a kind of still life painting designe to remind us of the vanity, or frivolous quality,of human existence. |
| vantage point | in linear perspective, the point where the viewer is positioned |
| vehicle | a thinner that enables paint to flow more readily and that also cleans brushes |
| verisimilitude | in representation, the apparent "truth" or accuracy of the description |
| video art | an art form that employs television as its medium |
| virtual reality | an artifical three-dimensional environment, sometimes called hyperspace or cyberspace, geneated through the use of computers, that the viewer experiences as real space |
| visual literacy | the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images |
| visual texture | a texture on the surface of a work that appears to be actual but is an illusion |
| visual weight | as opposed to actual weight, the apparent heaviness or lightness of a shape or form |
| voussoir | a wedge-shaped block used in the constructionn of an arch |
| value | the relative lightness or darkness of a picture or the colors employed in it. Also the worth, monetarily and culturally, of a work. |
| umbra | the heart, or core, of a shadow |
| Ukiyo-e | a style of Japanese art, meaning "pictures of the transient or floating world," that depicted, especially, the pleasures of everyday life |
| typanum | the space between the arch and lintel over a door, often decorated with sculpture |
| two-point linear perspective | a version of linear perspective in which there are two (or more) vanishing points in a composition |
| two-dimensional space | any space that is flat, possessing height and width, but no depth, such as a piece of drawing on a canvas |
| tusche | a greasy material used for drawing on a lithography stone |
| truss | in architecture, a triangular framework that, because of its rigidity, can span much wider areas than a single wooden beam |
| trompe l'oeil | a form of representation that attempts to depict the object as if it were actually present before the eye in three-dimensional space, literally "eye-fooling" |
| trimetric projection | a kind of axonometric projection in which all three measurements--height, width, and depth--employ a different scale |
| traveling shot | in film, a shot in which the camera moves back to front or front to back |
| transept | the crossarm of a church which intersects, at right angles, with the nave, creating the shape of a cross |
| topography | the distinct landscape characteristics of a local site |
| tint | a color or hue modified by the addition of another color resulting in a hue of higher key or value, in the way, for instance, that the addition of white to read results in pink |
| three-dimensional space | any space that possesses height, width, and depth |
| texture | the surface quality of a work |
| tesserae | small pieces of glass or stone used in making mosaic |
| tensile strength | in architecture, the ability of a building material to span horizontal distances without support and without buckling in the middle |
| tenebrism | from the Italian tenebroso, meaning murky, a heightened form of chiaroscuro |
| temporal art | any form of art that possesses a clear beginning, middle, and end,or that takes place over time |
| temperature | the relative warmth or coolness of a given hue, those in the yellow-orange-red range considered to be warm, and those in the green-blue-violet range considered cool |
| tempra | a painting medium made by combining water, pigment, and usually egg yolk |
| technology | the materials and methods available to a given culture |
| tapestry | a special kind of weaving, in which the weft yarns are of several colors that the weaver manipulates to make a design or image |
| tableau | a three-dimensional, room-size environment into which we cannot enter |
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