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Concepts and forms

Branch in the production of consumer goods

Architectural painting

Work of art in the form of a book

Bande dessinée

Comic of the classical Franco-Belgian style

Baroque sculpture

Sculpture of the Baroque movement

Decoration technique

Art with the human body

Folk art of carving designs in animal bones, teeth, horns, or antlers, or making figures or implements from these materials

Japanese miniature trees

Process of assembling a book

Artistic practices that are influenced by Buddhism

Burnishing (pottery)

To polish the surface of a ceramic vessel

Bust (sculpture)

Sculpture of a person's head and shoulders

Visual art related to writing

Visual artist who makes cartoons

Act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material

Decorative objects made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery

Layer or coating of vitreous substance fused to a ceramic object

Coiling (pottery)

Method of making pottery

Technique of art production using assemblage of different forms

Short serialized comics

Creative work in which pictures and text convey information such as narratives

Composition (visual arts)

Placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art

Decorative arts

Arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of functional, beautiful objects

Digital painting

Type of art created using computers

Visual artwork in two-dimensional medium

Nonvitreous pottery

Incising designs by cutting into a surface

Intaglio printmaking technique

Popular style or practice in clothing, personal adornment, or decorative arts

Fashion photography

Genre of photography

Art that depicts real object sources

Figure painting

Genre of painting that represents the human form

Art developed primarily for aesthetics

Art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople

Non-standard material used in work of art

Mural painting upon freshly laid lime plaster

Wide central section part of an entablature

Work of art which is substantially or wholly made of glass

Drawings and paintings on walls

Book with primarily comics contents

Item production made completely by hand or with simple tools

Hardstone carving

Artistic carving of semi-precious stones or gems

Art associated with Hindus

Depiction made by an artist

Ironstone china

Vitreous pottery

Landscape painting

Depiction of landscapes in art

Printing technique

Etched or molded artwork in very thin translucent porcelain, intended to be backlit

Comics or graphic novels created in Japan

Style of Chinese-language comics produced in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Comics created in Korea

Area or object, smaller than a monument, which serves as a focus for memory of something

Structure built to commemorate a relevant person or event

Image made from small colored tiles

Piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a large permanent surface

Craft of creating or decorating objects using needle

Tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top

Process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil

Optical illusion

Visually perceived images that differ from objective reality

Traditional Japanese art of paper folding

Practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface

Panoramic painting

Massive artwork that reveals a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject

Making of artistic works entirely or primarily of paper

Paper-based construction material

Technique of writing with the hand

Perspective (graphical)

Form of graphical projection where the projection lines converge to one or more points

Artistic representation of one or more persons

Portrait miniature

Very small painting

Process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper

Television series

Art that is religious in theme

Style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the past

Sand art and play

Moulding and sculpting shapes out of moist sand

Form of art creation

Box-like funeral receptacle

Artworks that are three-dimensional objects

Appearance and art form with only outline visible

Coloured glass and the works that are made from it

Sculpture primarily concerned as a representational figure

Science fiction genre inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery

Type of painting

The act of shaping stone materials

Term for pottery or other ceramics fired at a relatively high temperature

Art that is public and temporary in public spaces

Style (visual arts)

Visual appearance of a creative work, shared with other works of the same movement or school

Stuffing and mounting dead animals for display

Clay-based earthenware used for sculpture

Oldest form of comics, where the stories are told in captions below the images

Arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects

Art forms involving visual perception

Watercolor painting

Type of painting method using water-based solutions

Comics published online

Form of working wood by means of a cutting tool

Pre-cinema animation device