Fine Art

A fresco is created by painting colored pigments (oil, traditionally) into wet plaster.

Religion

An art connoisseur

It directs the viewer to look first at the illuminated part of the painting.

mathematics and science

Look at the work of art and describe what you see

They discuss and form opinions about artworks.

How should art be judged

To evaluate and critique visual artworks.

What is the artist trying to communicate

To turn the camera into a painter's tool

To make people believe a painting is a photograph

Make nearby objects more vivid and distant objects duller

The duller objects will seem farther away.

Western art criticism focuses on theory and philosophy.

Establish a horizon line and a vanishing point

The question is "What is art?"

And the answer is likely to be subjective, because some forms of symbolic or representational art may not have any apparent meaning to some of its audience. The creation of abstract art, "junkyard sculpture" and more recently the ephemeral "performance art" all stretch the definition beyond its classical roots.

The development of the first mathematical system of perspective (apex)

It outline's object's realistically by creating a gentle transformation from one object to another.(:

Artists are products of their environments.

What is the artisit trying to communicate to the viewer

A doctor and a soldier

The purpose of painting is to reduce nature as closely as possible

Aerial perspective

the use of size to establish the importance of the main subject