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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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Whaam! is a 1963 diptych painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein. It is one of the best-known works of pop art, and among Lichtenstein's most important paintings. Whaam! was first exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City in 1963, and purchased by the Tate Gallery, London, in 1966. It has been on permanent display at Tate Modern since 2006.

The left-hand panel shows a fighter plane firing a rocket that, in the right-hand panel, hits a second plane which explodes in flames. Lichtenstein adapted the image from several comic-book panels, with the primary source being a panel illustrated by Irv Novick from a 1962 war comic book. Lichtenstein transformed the source by presenting it as a diptych while altering the relationship of the graphical and narrative elements. Whaam! is regarded for the temporal, spatial and psychological integration of its two panels. The painting's title is integral to the action and impact of the painting, and displayed in large onomatopoeia in the right panel. (Full article...)

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Michelangelo's Pietà

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Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

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“	Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.	”
	— Edgar Degas, unknown

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Dalí in 1939

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

Born in Figueres in Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 2Two 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 3Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 4Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 5Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 6Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 7Irbid, 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 8Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 9Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 10Yves Klein, 1962, monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 11Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 12The 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 13Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 14Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 15Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 16Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 17Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 18Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 19Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 20Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 21Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 22Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 23A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 24Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
Image 25A 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 26Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 27Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 28Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 29Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 30Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 31Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 32Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 33Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 34Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 35Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 36Silk 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 37Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 38A 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 39Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 40Francis Picabia, (Left) Le saint des saints c'est de moi qu'il s'agit dans ce portrait, 1 July 1915; (center) Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine dans l'état de nudité, 5 July 1915: (right) J'ai vu et c'est de toi qu'il s'agit, De Zayas! De Zayas! Je suis venu sur les rivages du Pont-Euxin, New York, 1915 (from History of painting)
Image 41Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 42Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 43Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 44Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 45Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 46Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 47Due 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 48Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 49Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 50Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)

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