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The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts, also involve aspects of the visual arts, as well as arts of other types. Within the visual arts, the applied arts, such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art are also included.

Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as applied or decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts.

The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature of Western art as well as East Asian art. In both regions, painting has been seen as relying on the imagination of the artist to the highest degree and being the furthest removed from manual labour – in Chinese painting, valued styles were "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes. (Full article...)

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Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.

The new Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in Europe and led European trade and science. The northern Netherlandish provinces that made up the new state had traditionally been less important artistic centres than cities in Flanders in the south. The upheavals and large-scale transfers of population of the war, and the sharp break with the old monarchist and Catholic cultural traditions, meant that Dutch art had to reinvent itself almost entirely, a task in which it was very largely successful. The painting of religious subjects declined very sharply, but a large new market for all kinds of secular subjects grew up. (Full article...)

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Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his etchings of imaginary "prisons" as illustrated here by Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione.

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“	Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.	”
	— Salvador Dalí, People (September 27, 1976)

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Ella Augusta "Eleanor" Norcross (June 24, 1854 – October 19, 1923) was an American painter who studied under William Merritt Chase and Alfred Stevens. She lived the majority of her adult life in Paris, France, as an artist and collector and spent the summers in her hometown of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Norcross painted Impressionist portraits and still lifes, and is better known for her paintings of genteel interiors.

Her father provided her a comfortable living, under the proviso that she would not sell her paintings. With a life mission to provide people from her hometown the ability to view great works of art, Norcross collected art, made copies of paintings of Old Masters, and systematically documented decorative arts from the 12th through the 19th century. Her funding and art collection were used to establish the Fitchburg Art Museum. (Full article...)

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Image 1Irbid, Jordan, "We are Arabs. We are Humans". Inside Out is a global participatory art project, initiated by the French photographer JR, an example of Street art. (from Contemporary art)
Image 2Mother Goddess A miniature painting of the Pahari style, dating to the eighteenth century. Pahari and Rajput miniatures share many common features. (from History of painting)
Image 3Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 4Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 5Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 6Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 7Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 8A fresco showing Hades and Persephone riding in a chariot, from the tomb of Queen Eurydice I of Macedon at Vergina, Greece, 4th century BC (from History of painting)
Image 9Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 10A Boeing 747 aircraft with livery designating it as Air Force One. The cyan forms, the US flag, presidential seal and the Caslon lettering, were all designed at different times, by different designers, for different purposes, and combined by designer Raymond Loewy in this one single aircraft exterior design. (from Graphic design)
Image 11Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 12Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 13Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 14Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 15Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 16Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 17Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 18Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 19Diego Rivera, Recreation of Man at the Crossroads (renamed Man, Controller of the Universe), originally created in 1934, Mexican muralism movement (from History of painting)
Image 20In 2021, researchers discovered ancient cave art in Leang Tedongnge, Sulawesi, Indonesia, estimated to be at least 45,500 years old. Depicting a warty pig, this artwork is recognized as the world's oldest known example of figurative or representational art. (from History of painting)
Image 21Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 22Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 23Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 24Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 25An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 26Due to its interdisciplinary nature, graphic design can be performed in different areas of application: branding, technical and artistic drawing, signage, photography, image and video editing, 3D modeling, animation, programming, digital drawing, video creation among other fields. (from Graphic design)
Image 27Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 28Silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon, painting on silk, dated to 5th–3rd century BC, Warring States period, from Zidanku Tomb no. 1 in Changsha, Hunan Province (from History of painting)
Image 29Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 30Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 31Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 32A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 33Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 34The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 35Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 36Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 37Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 38Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 39A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 40Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 41Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 42Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 43Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 44Two Scribes Seated with Books and a Writing Table Fragment of a decorative margin Northern India (Mughal school), ca. 1640–1650 (from History of painting)
Image 45Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 46Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 47Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 48Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 49The Eternal Father Painting the Virgin of Guadalupe. Attributed to Joaquín Villegas (1713 – active in 1753) (Mexican) (painter, Museo Nacional de Arte. (from History of painting)
Image 50Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)