#fine arts

• Etcher — A visual artist, graphic designer, or engraver specializing in the etching technique (aqua fortis), an artistic process of printing from metal plates corroded with nitric acid. This specialist combines drawing mastery with the precision of industrial chemical reactions, controlling the matrix exposure time in the acid bath to achieve fine gradations of shadow, expressive lines, and textures of remarkable aesthetic depth.
• Female etcher — The feminine form of the term 'acvafortist'; a female visual artist or graphic designer who practices with high qualification the technique of etching (aqua fortis). She manipulates precision instruments and corrosive substances on metal matrices to create original prints, making a distinctive structural contribution to contemporary and modern graphic arts.
• Watercolor — A painting technique based on the use of special paints whose pigments are diluted exclusively in water, applied on porous supports, usually thick paper or cardboard; also, it designates the artwork created through this process or the solid cake of colored pigment. This structural style stands out for its transparency, fluidity, delicate overlapping of shades, and a specific luminosity due to the white of the paper remaining partially visible.
• Watercolorist — A visual artist, painter, or graphic designer specializing in creating artworks using the watercolor technique; as an adjective, it describes the quality of a creator or a style focused on water-based painting. This specialist masters fluid dynamics and paper absorption, being capable of executing quick, spontaneous compositions before the wet pigments structurally dry.
• Female watercolorist — The feminine form of the term 'acvarelist'; a female visual artist or painter specializing in the watercolor technique, creating compositions by diluting colored pigments in water; as an adjective, it describes a feminine style or artwork characterized by transparency and fluidity. This specialist precisely controls the absorption level of the paper medium to create delicate chromatic effects before the layers structurally dry.
• Aquatint — An artistic printmaking process on metal plates (copper or zinc) related to etching, used to achieve wash effects, granulated textures, and velvety modulated tones of gray or color; also, it designates the print impressed via this technique. This structural style relies on dusting a fine resin powder (rosin) onto the matrix, which, after heating and controlled acid corrosion, creates nuanced areas.
• Aquatint etcher — A visual artist, graphic designer, or engraver specializing in the use of the aquatint technique to create artworks on chemically etched metal plates. This specialist masters the art of tonal gradation, precisely controlling resin dust density and acid exposure time to achieve rich textures and fluid gradients on paper.
• Female aquatint etcher — The feminine form of the term 'acvatintist'; a female visual artist, graphic designer, or engraver specializing in the aquatint technique. This specialist combines drawing mastery with chemical precision, applying and melting a fine resin powder onto metal plates to achieve nuanced, velvety areas and rich gradients of gray or color on the printed paper support through acid corrosion.
• Anaglyptic — Pertaining to anaglyptics; belonging to the art of carving or engraving in low relief (bas-relief, high relief) on materials such as stone, ivory, wood, or precious metals. This term qualifies the prominent ornamental elements chiseled onto decorative surfaces or ancient plastic art works obtained through three-dimensional structural modeling.
• Animalier — Representing or having animals as its main subject; a painter, sculptor, or visual artist specializing in the faithful, expressive, and detailed depiction of fauna in their works. The term also applies to the artistic genre dedicated to animals, a movement that flourished greatly in 19th-century sculpture and painting, emphasizing anatomy and realism.
• Autolithography — A technial planographic printing process in which the artist draws or transfers the work directly onto the lithographic stone or onto a special autographic transfer paper (later transferred to stone), without resorting to the services of an intermediate engraver or technician. This graphic method ensures the faithful and unaltered preservation of the original stroke spontaneity, texture, and primary artistic vision of the creator within multiplied editions.
• Automatist — As a noun, it designates an engineer or technician specialized in the field of automatics, responsible for implementing and maintaining autonomous control systems. As an adjective, the term describes an artistic movement, a creative method, or a follower of surrealism (specifically the Canadian 'Les Automatistes' school) emphasizing pure psychic automatism, generating pictorial or literary artworks directly from subconscious impulses.
• Automatist — As a noun, it designates a female engineer or technician specialized in automatics, responsible for designing and maintaining autonomous control systems. As an adjective, it represents the feminine motion for the artistic movement or creative method based on pure psychic automatism, specific to the surrealist movement (such as 'Les Automatistes' school), where the composition is directly guided by subconscious impulses.
• Self-portrait — A portrait of an artist (painter, sculptor, photographer) created by themselves; a self-referential visual representation wherein the creator analyzes their own physical features and inner psychological state through their own aesthetic lens. In literature, the term denotes a detailed and often critical description or psychological analysis that a writer makes of their own person within an autobiographical work.