What is it called when you decorate or embellish an artwork?
adorn, decorate, ornament, embellish, beautify, deck, garnish mean to enhance the appearance of something by adding something unessential. adorn implies an enhancing by something beautiful in itself.
Designs have to solve problems, while art should provoke thought and emotions. Designers work methodically with a data-driven or mathematical process, while artists work intuitively using their instinct. Art is perceptual, while a design is rational. Designs are created for others; art is for oneself.
The three fine arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture are sometimes also called the “major arts”, with “minor arts” referring to commercial or decorative art styles.
decorate suggests relieving plainness or monotony by adding beauty of color or design. decorate a birthday cake. ornament and embellish imply the adding of something extraneous, ornament stressing the heightening or setting off of the original.
“Embellishing” refers to painting over areas of the image to apply brush strokes and enhance color.
The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing.
: to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan : devise, contrive. design a system for tracking inventory. : to conceive and plan out in the mind. he designed the perfect crime. : to have as a purpose : intend.
The seven major forms of art are painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, cinema, and theater.
Some common synonyms of art are artifice, craft, cunning, and skill. While all these words mean "the faculty of executing well what one has devised," art implies a personal, unanalyzable creative power.
- aesthetic.
- creative.
- decorative.
- dramatic.
- imaginative.
- musical.
- cultivated.
- cultured.
What word is used to describe how a work of art looks?
Style. A work of art's style is a classification of its visual appearance. Often, style is characterized according to the distinctive aesthetic approach of an individual artist, art movement, period, or culture.
In this website, we'll explore four of the main styles that I work in: photorealism, abstract, whimsical, and composite (combined styles). In time, I will add more information about other artistic styles, but for now we'll focus on the four styles that I am most familiar with, in both theory and practice.
The term "decorative arts" refers to a kind of art that is useful as well as beautiful. Furniture, glassware, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, and textiles are among the most important decorative arts.
decorative art, any of those arts that are concerned with the design and decoration of objects that are chiefly prized for their utility, rather than for their purely aesthetic qualities.
decoration. noun. dec·o·ra·tion ˌdek-ə-ˈrā-shən. : the act or action of decorating. : something that decorates or beautifies : ornament.
In addition to referring to materials for decoration, ornamentation can also mean the act of decorating or the state of being decorated. If your friend is constantly redecorating her room in extravagant ways, she probably enjoys the process of ornamentation. A heavily decorated house is in a state of ornamentation.
Definitions of ornament. something used to beautify. synonyms: decoration, ornamentation.
- adorn.
- bedeck.
- dress up.
- embroider.
- exaggerate.
- festoon.
- gild.
- overstate.
