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graphic art

/ˌgræfɪk ɑrt/
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Other forms: graphic arts

Definitions of graphic art
  1. noun
    the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking
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    types:
    graphics
    the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book
    painting, picture
    graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
    print
    a picture or design printed from an engraving
    scene, view
    graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
    abstraction
    an abstract painting
    cityscape
    painting depicting a city or urban area
    computer graphics
    the pictorial representation and manipulation of data by a computer
    contact print
    a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative
    copperplate
    a print made from an engraved copperplate
    daub
    an unskillful painting
    distemper
    a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
    engraving
    a print made from an engraving
    finger-painting
    a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers
    gravure, heliogravure, photogravure
    an intaglio print produced by gravure
    icon, ikon
    a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
    landscape
    painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
    linocut
    a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum
    lithograph
    a print produced by lithography
    mezzotint
    print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade
    illumination, miniature
    painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
    monochrome
    painting done in a range of tones of a single color
    mural, wall painting
    a painting that is applied to a wall surface
    nude, nude painting
    a painting of a naked human figure
    oil painting
    a picture painted with oil paints
    overprint, surprint
    something added by overprinting
    pentimento
    the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
    sand painting
    a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background
    seascape, waterscape
    a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape)
    semi-abstraction
    a semiabstract painting
    serigraph, silk screen print, silkscreen
    a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil
    still life
    a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers
    tanka
    a Tibetan religious painting on fabric
    trompe l'oeil
    a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality
    water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercolour
    a painting produced with watercolors
    type of:
    art, fine art
    the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
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