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Tromp-l oeil |
visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object. |
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Odalisques |
a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey. |
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Anamorphic |
having or producing unequal magnifications along two axes perpendicular to each other. |
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Animism |
the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls. |
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Avantgarde |
the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods. |
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aesthetics |
the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgments concerning works of art, and the principles underlying or justifying such judgments. |