Flashcards: Visual arts

The nude figure is a tradition in Western art, and has been used to express ideals of male and female beauty and other human qualities.

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.

Fan art or fanart are artworks created by fans of a work of fiction (generally visual media such as comics, movies, television shows, or video games) and derived from a character or other aspect of that work.

Pressed flower craft consists of drying flower petals and leaves in a flower press to flatten and exclude light and moisture.

The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, or the impossible tribar, is an impossible object.

A vignette, in graphic design, is a unique form for a frame to an image, either illustration or photograph.

Ironwork is any weapon, artwork, utensil or architectural feature made of iron especially used for decoration.

Mail art (also known as postal art and correspondence art) is a populist artistic movement centered on sending small scale works through the postal service.

Artists' books (or art books) are works of art that utilize the form of the book.

Sequential art (also visual narrative, graphic narrative, pictorial narrative, sequential narrative, sequential pictorial narrative, sequential storytelling, graphic literature, or narrative illustration) is an art form that uses images deployed in sequence for graphic storytelling or to convey information.

Space is one of the elements of design of architecture, as space is continuously studied for its usage.