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Ashcan school

ashlar

aspect ratio *

asphaltum

assemblage sculpture

assess, assessment

Associate of the Royal Academy of Art (ARA), a group of British artists is coming soon

Assyrian art - See Mesopotamian art

ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials)

astrology is coming soon - See ideomancy

Asturian art

Asuka

asymmetry, asymmetrical balance

atectonic

atelier

atlant, atlantid, or atlas

atmosphere is coming soon

atmospheric perspective - See aerial perspective

aubergine is coming soon

auction - See art auction is coming soon

audience

audio guide

audiovisual is coming soon

authorial irrelevance

authorial responsibility

autobiographical art

autochrome is coming soon

autocritical

autograph is coming soon

autographic ink

autography

automata

automatic writing is coming soon

automatism

automaton

autoportrait

autoriques is coming soon

avant-garde

avatar

aware, awareness is coming soon

A.W.S. See American Watercolor Society (AWS)

ax maybe eventually

axial plan

axis or axis line

axonometric projection

azurite

Babylonian art - See Mesopotamian art

badge (emblematic pin) is coming soon

bailee

bailey

bailor

bakelite is coming soon

balsa wood is coming soon

bandsaw is coming soon

banker

banner is coming soon

baptistery

Barbadian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

basket, basketry, basketwork

bas-relief

bassetaille

bat

Groupe du Bateau-lavoir

battlement - See crenelation

battle scenes is coming soon

Bauhaus

bay

Bay Area / West Coast figuration is coming soon

BC or B.C.

BCE or B.C.E.

bead, beaded is coming soon

beauty parlor or beauty salon

beaux-arts

beaver board is coming soon

bed

beehive tomb

bee's-eye view is coming soon

beeswax

Belgian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

belvedere

ben-ben

benchmarks See standards

benday

beni-e or beni-ye or benizuri-e or beni-zuri-ye

Benin

benzine

beret

Berlin Secession - See secession

beryl is coming soon

bestiary

beton brut is coming soon

bind - See bookbinding

bistre is coming soon

bit-depth

bite

bit-mapped image or bitmap image

bitten in

bitumen

black is coming soon

black-on-black is coming soon

black and white, B&W

black-figure

black light, also see ultraviolet is coming soon

blackware is coming soon

blanc de Chine

bland

blanket

Blaue Reiter, Der - See Der Blaue Reiter

Blaue Vier

blazen - See heraldry.

blazon, blazoning

bleach is coming soon

blemish is coming soon

blend

blind - See blind arcade, blindness, etc. is coming soon

blind arcade

blind continuous-line contour drawing - See contour drawing

blindness is coming soon

blind nitch is coming soon

blind pressing

blind spot

blind window is coming soon

block (printing)

blockbuster

blocking in

block out

blockout or block-out

block printing

blocks to creativity

bloom

Bloomsbury Group is coming soon

Blue Four - See Blaue Vier

blue is coming soon

blue pencil

Blue Rider - See Der Blaue Reiter

blur is coming soon

body color or bodycolor

body image is coming soon

body language is coming soon

Bohemian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Bolivian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

bolt is coming soon

bone is coming soon

boneless style - See mo-ku is coming soon

bookplate or ex libris

brainstorm, brainstorming

Brazilian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

breakfast painting - See ontbijt

bright [type of brush]

bright, brightness - See candela, color, glossy, light, mat, and value

brilliance, brilliant - brightness

brindled

bristle - See brush

bristol board or Bristol board

britannia

brittleness, brittle is coming soon

broad manner

broadsheet - See broadside

brown is coming soon

Brücke, Die - See Die Brücke

bruise is coming soon

brush washer - or need? brush cleaner

Buddhist art and Buddhism

buff [the color, not the body-build; and: just short of polish]

buffer

bug

bulletin board is coming soon

bulto - See santo

burlap is coming soon

burnish is coming soon

burnisher

burlesque is coming soon

Bulgarian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

burr

bush hammer

business is coming soon

c., c., or ca.

cadavre exquis - See exquisite corpse

calcium and calcium carbonate

Camden Town Group [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

Canadian Group of Painters - See Seven, Group of

candle - See candela

canopy is coming soon

cantharos - See kantharos.

capture device - See scanner

care, concern is coming soon

caricature

carnival, carnivalesque

Carolingian art

carpentry is coming soon

carta pesta

carte de visite

cartoccio

cartography and cartographer

cartonnage (mummies) is coming soon

cast iron is coming soon

castle is coming soon

cave painting - See Stone Age

CCD array

CD-ROM

CE or C.E.

ceiling is coming soon

censor, censorious, censorship

Center for Arts and Culture

ceramics or ceramic ware

Cercle et Carré

ceremony, ceremonial is coming soon

Chaldean art - See Mesopotamian art

chance - See aleatory and aleatoric

charrette - See charette

chart - See diagram and graph

chatra - See parasol

chi - See feng shui

Chicano art / Chicana art

chigi

children's art

Chilian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

chine collé

Chinese art

Chinese ink - See India ink or Indian ink

Chinese white - See zinc white

Ching

chinoiserie

chipping out

chirality - See helix

Christian iconography is coming soon

chryselephantine is coming soon

chuban

ciborium

cinema, cinematography, film, movie, motion picture

circular (sub-stage of Victor Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development)

clarity is coming soon

class

classical

classical orders

classicism is coming soon

classification

clerestory or clearstory

clock - See horology

cluster pier - See compound pier

cm or cm. - Abbreviation for centimeter

CMYK (cyan magenta yellow black)

coat and coating

coefficient of expansion

coffee-table book is coming soon

coffer or coffering

cognitive

coherence, coherent

cohesion, cohesive is coming soon

coil, and coil method or coil construction

coins - See numismatics and currency

collect, collection, collector

collectible

College Art Association (CAA)

Colombian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

colonialism is coming soon

colorant primaries - see subtractive primaries is coming soon

colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

color correction

color depth - See dynamic range

Color Field painting

color look-up table

color management systems

colossus and colossal

colour-man or colourman

column

combine

comic strip, comic book, comix is coming soon

commemorate

commercial art

commission

commodity and commodification

communication, communicate

companion piece is coming soon

compare, comparable, comparison

compass

compass rose

compensation - See rule of compensation

complementary afterimage

composite order or composite capital

compulsive is coming soon

Conceptualism, conceptual art, Conceptual art

cone, conical (the form)

cone (as in rods and cones)

confection

confettiism is coming soon

configuration

conflation

conflict

conglobe and conglobate

congruity - See incongruity

conservation and conserve - See art conservation

conservator - See art conservator

consign and consignment

consistency

construct and construction

construction paper

Constructivism or constructivism

contact print

conté crayon and Conté Crayon

contemplate, contemplation is coming soon

contemporary

content

context

continuous-line - See contour drawing

contour

contour drawing

contour lines

contract is coming soon

Corinthian or Corinthian order

Corinthian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

corner clamp

cornice

corrosion, corrosive is coming soon

corrugate, corrugated cardboard

Cor-ten steel

corundum

cosmetic, cosmeticize, and cosmetize

cosmononplusation

Costa Rican art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

costume

cotton is coming soon

crack is coming soon

craftsman, craftsperson is coming soon

craftsmanship

cramp - See clamp

crater - See krater

crayon

crazing

creative process - See creativity

creative self-expression

crescent is coming soon

critic - See art critic, art criticism

criticism - See art critic, art criticism

criticize is coming soon

critique

Croatian art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

crochet is coming soon

crocket

Cro-Magnon

cromlech

crop and crop mark

cross is coming soon

cross-barrel vault

crosscut saw

cross-hatching - See hatching

Cuban art [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

culinary arts is coming soon

culture cultural

culture jamming

cuneiform

cup, cupping is coming soon

curiosity, curious is coming soon

currency - See numismatics and currency

cut, cutter, cutting is coming soon

cutaway view is coming soon

cute

cutlery, tableware is coming soon

Czech art [see artcyclopedia]

dabber

Dada, Dadaist

dado

daguerreotype or Daguerreotype

daho

damage is coming soon

damar

damascene is coming soon

dawning realism stage

day for night

day-glo colors or DayGlo colors

D.B.A.E. - See discipline-based art education (DBAE)

deaccession

deacidification is coming soon

deadline

dead white males - See DWM

decadence, decadent is coming soon

decagon

decagram or dekagram

decahedron

decal and decalcomania *

decay [see ruin] is coming soon

deconstruction, Deconstructivism

decoration, decorative, decorate

decorative arts

decorum

decoupage or découpage

decumanus

deduction

deed of gift

deep, deepness, depth of color

deesis

deface

defect is coming soon

definition, define, defining

Delft, Delft blue is coming soon

delineate

deltiology, deltiologist

denote, denotative, denotation is coming soon

deposition is coming soon

descender is coming soon

desco da parto

description, describe

destroy and destruction - also see loot, lost, missing, plunder, provenance, recover/recovery, steal/stolen, theft

detail

detergent

determinism is coming soon

detournement

detritus

deuteranomaly - See colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

deuteranopia - See colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

development - See Stages of Artistic Development

dexterity is coming soon

diaphragm arch - See arch

dicromasy, see colorblind or color-blind, or colorblindness

didactic

die

Die Brücke

Die Neue Sachlichtkeit [see artcyclopedia] is coming soon

different and difference