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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a controlled vocabulary used for describing items of art, architecture, and material culture. The AAT contains generic terms, such as "cathedral", but no proper names, such as "Cathedral of Notre Dame." The AAT is used by, among others, museums, art libraries, archives, catalogers, and researchers in ...
Elements of art are stylistic features that are included within an art piece to help the artist communicate. [1] The seven most common elements include line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality. [1][2] When analyzing these intentionally utilized elements, the viewer is guided towards ...
Spatial design. Spatial design is a relatively new conceptual design discipline that crosses the boundaries of traditional design specialisms such as architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, interior design, urban design and service design as well as certain areas of public art. It focuses upon the flow of people between multiple ...
In art and design, negative space is the empty space around and between the subject (s) of an image. [1] Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.
Space in landscape design. Space in landscape design refers to theories about the meaning and nature of space as a volume and as an element of design. The concept of space as the fundamental medium of landscape design grew from debates tied to modernism, contemporary art, Asian art and design as seen in the Japanese garden, and architecture.
Architecture can mean: A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. [8] The art and science of designing buildings and (some) nonbuilding structures; [8] sometimes called "architectonics" [9] The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures.
Visual arts. Minimalism in visual art, sometimes called "minimal art", "literalist art" [5] and "ABC Art", [6] refers to a specific movement of artists that emerged in New York in the early 1960s in response to abstract expressionism. [7] Examples of artists working in painting that are associated with Minimalism include Nassos Daphnis, Frank ...
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. A partial list would include René Descartes, Immanuel Kant ...