Visual Arts

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Visual Arts.

• Anamorphosis — A deliberately distorted projection that resolves into a recognizable image only from a prescribed viewpoint or through an optical device such as a curved mirror.
• Droste effect — A recursive visual construction in which an image contains a smaller depiction of itself in the place where that depiction would naturally appear.
• Figure painting — A painting or painting practice in which the human figure is the primary subject, whether clothed or nude and whether rendered naturalistically or symbolically.
• Tracing (art) — The image-transfer technique of reproducing visible contours by drawing over a source through a transparent, projected, or otherwise registered guide.