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Subject Headings Used in Online Catalog

Fine Arts   Revised 2003

Compiled by Loraine Baratti &
Janette Rozene, Associate Professor, Cataloging Department
The Library uses Library of Congress Subject Headings in StyleCat   Online Catalog
For an outline of the Library of Congress Classification and the corresponding subject headings,  click here.

Art as a Profession  |  Methods & Materials  Drawing  |  Painting  |  Printmaking  Sculpture

ART AS A PROFESSION

Art
     --Computer network resources
     --Study and teaching
     --Vocational guidance
Art commissions
Art portfolios
Art publicity
Art schools
     --Directories
Artisans
Artist colonies
Artists
     --Diseases
     --Finance, Personal
     --Health and hygiene
     --Housing
     --Legal status, laws, etc.
     --Taxation
Artists and community
Artists’ contracts
Artists’ studios
     --Safety measures
Copyright –Art
Design protection
Digital art
Gay artists
Illustrators
Law and art
Webcasting –Exhibitions
Women artists
Women painters

METHODS & MATERIALS

Aesthetics
Anatomy, Artistic
     See also Face, Hand, Hand in art, Head, Head in art, Human figure in art, Nude in art.
Art –Technique
Artists’ marks
Artists’ materials
     --Safety measures
     --Tables
      --Toxicology
Artists’ models
Artists’ preparatory studies
Artists’ tools
Brushwork
Cerebral dominance
Color
     --Charts, diagrams, etc.
     --Physiological effect
     --Psychological aspects
     --Study and teaching
     --Terminology
     See also colors such as Blue in art.
Color (Philosophy)
Color guides
Color in art
Color in design
Color vision
Colored pencils
Colors
Colors, Words for
Composition (Art)
Computer-aided design
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Creative ability
Design –Adaptations
Drapery in art
Drawing instruments
Form (Aesthetics)
Form perception
Gesture in art
Group work in art
Human anatomy
Inspiration
Light in art
Line (Art)
Mat cutting (Pictures)
Miniature decorative design
Paper, Handmade
Pattern perception
Perception
Perspective
Photography of art
Picture frames and framing
Picture perception
Pictures
     --Trimming, mounting, etc.
Pigments
Proportion (Art)
Sculpture materials
Self-portraits
Shades and shadows
Space (Art)
Space perception
Symmetry (Art)
Texture (Art)
Varnish and varnishing
Visual perception
Work design

DRAWING

Architectural drawing
Botanical illustration
Brush drawing
Calligraphy
Caricature
Caricatures and cartoons
Cartooning
Charcoal drawing
Color drawing
Colored pencil drawing
Computer drawing
Drawing
Drawing from photographs
Dry marker drawing
Felt marker drawing
Figure drawing
Geometrical drawing
Graphic methods
Landscape drawing
Measured drawing
Pastel drawing
Pen drawing
Pencil drawing
Portrait drawing
Scratchboard drawing
Underdrawing


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PAINTING

Acrylic painting
Airbrush art
Conversation piece (Portrait painting)
Expatriate painters
Fan painting
Figure painting
Fore-edge painting
Genre painting
Gouache painting
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Ink painting –Technique
Landscape painters
     --Homes and haunts
Landscape painting
Marine painting
Miniature painting
Mural painting and decoration
Narrative painting
Painters
     --Biography
     --Correspondence
     --Interviews
Painting
     --Attribution
     --Autoradiography
     --Conservation and restoration
     --Dictionaries
     --Effect of atmospheric ozone on
     --Expertising
     --Forgeries
     --Technique
Painting from photographs
Panel painting
     --Conservation and restoration
Polychromy
Portrait painters
Portrait painting
Portraits
Roller painting
Sandpaintings
Screen painting, Japanese
Silk painting
Still-life painting
Sumie
Tempera painting
Texture painting
Transparent watercolor painting
Trompe l’oeil painting
Vase painting
Water-soluble oil paint
Watercolor painting

PRINTMAKING

Aquatint
Chromolithography
Collagraph printing
Color prints
Dry-point
Engravers
Engraving
Etchers
Etching
Graphic arts
Intaglio printing
Landscape prints
Linoleum block-printing
Lithographers
Lithographic workshops
Lithography
Monotype (Engraving)
Naval prints
Offset lithography
Printmakers
Prints
     --Conservation and restoration
--Marketing
Relief painting
Roller printing (Printmaking)
Rubber stamp printing
Screen process printing
Serigraphy
Sporting prints
Wood-engraving

SCULPTURE

Air-supported structures
Aluminum
Aluminum construction
Animal sculptors
Animal sculpture
Art metal-work
Art metal-workers
Brasses
Bronze figurines
Bronze sculpture
Bronzes
Carving (Decorative arts)
Ceramic sculpture
Clay
Effigies
Equestrian statues
Figure sculpture
Haniwa
Ivories
Kinetic sculpture
Korwars (Sculpture)
Marble sculpture
     --Conservation and restoration
Masks (Sculpture)
Medals
Mobiles (Sculpture)
Modeling
Monuments
Neon sculpture
Numismatics
Paper sculpture
Paper work
Papier-maĉhé
Plaster sculpture
Portrait sculpture
Public sculpture
Relief (Sculpture)
Sculptors
     --Biography
Sculpture
     --Appreciation
     --Technique
Sculpture, Chryselephantine
Sepulcral monuments
Small sculpture
Soft sculpture
Statues
Stele (Archaeology)
Stone carving
Terra-cotta sculpture
Wax-modeling
Wood-carving
Woodwork
Woodworking tools

     See also art forms subdivided by
--Themes, motives such as:
Nature (Aesthetics) –Themes, motives
Folk art –Themes, motives

     See also other media such as: Artists’ books, Assemblage (Art), Body art, Collage, Commercial art, Computer-aided design, Computer art, Computer graphics, Conceptual art, Environmental (Art), Found objects (Art), Happening (Art), Installations (Art), Multiple art, Performance art, Photography, Photomontage, Posters, Public art, Relief (Art), Street art, Tattoo artists, Tattooing, Video art, Wearable art

     See also headings such as:
Animals in art
Animals –Pictorial works
Birds –Pictorial works
Botany –Pictorial works
Costume in art
Fashion in art
Flowers in art
Human figure in art
Picturesque, The, in art
Zoological illustration
Zoology –Pictorial works

     See also FIT Picture Collection at the Library Circulation Desk

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