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  2. Visual space - Wikipedia

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    Visual space is the experience of space by an aware observer.It is the subjective counterpart of the space of physical objects. There is a long history in philosophy, and later psychology of writings describing visual space, and its relationship to the space of physical objects.

  3. Shape and form (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    A form is an artist's way of using elements of art, principles of design, and media. Form, as an element of art, is three-dimensional and encloses space. Like a shape, a form has length and width, but it also has depth. Forms are either geometric or free-form, and can be symmetrical or asymmetrical.

  4. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Some philosophers follow Aristotle in describing metaphysics as "first philosophy", suggesting that it is the most basic inquiry upon which all other branches of philosophy depend in some way. [7] [b] Immanuel Kant conceived metaphysics from the perspective of critical philosophy as the study of the principles underlying all human thought and ...

  5. Illusionistic ceiling painting - Wikipedia

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    Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe-l'œil, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an otherwise two ...

  6. Three-dimensional art - Wikipedia

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    digital art created using 3D computer graphics; any form of visual art resulting in a three-dimensional physical object, such as sculpture, architecture, installation art and many decorative art forms; two-dimensional art that creates the appearance of being in 3D, such as through stereoscopy, anamorphosis, or photorealism

  7. Installation art - Wikipedia

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    Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called public art , land art or art intervention ; however, the boundaries between these terms overlap.

  8. Perdurantism - Wikipedia

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    In metaphysics the debate over persistence currently involves three competing theories—one three-dimensionalist theory called "endurantism" and two four-dimensionalist theories called "perdurantism" and "exdurantism". For a perdurantist, all objects are considered to be four-dimensional worms and they make up the different regions of spacetime.

  9. Cubism - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.