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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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View of Mt. Fuji from Numazu by Hokusai

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Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is illustrated here by Hokusai's Red Fuji from his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji series.

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“	Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.	”
	— Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (April 5, 1965)

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This portrait attributed to Francesco Melzi, c. 1515–1518, is the only certain contemporary depiction of Leonardo.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.

Born out of wedlock to a successful notary and a lower-class woman in (or near) Vinci in Tuscany, he was educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. He began his career in the city, but then spent much time in the service of Ludovico Sforza in Milan. Later, he worked in Florence and Milan again, as well as briefly in Rome, all while attracting a large following of imitators and students. Upon the invitation of Francis I, he spent his last three years in France, where he died in 1519. Since his death, there has not been a time when his achievements, diverse interests, personal life, and empirical thinking have failed to incite interest and admiration, making him a frequent namesake and subject in culture. (Full article...)

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Image 1Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 2Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
Image 3Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 4Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 5A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 6A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 7Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist of the Southern Song dynasty; paintings in leaf album style such as this were popular in the Southern Song (1127–1279). (from History of painting)
Image 8Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 9Silk 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 10Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 11Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 12Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 13Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 14Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 15Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 16A 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 17Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 18The 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 19Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 20Diego 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 21Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 22Two 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 23Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 24Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 25Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 26The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 27Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 28A 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 29Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 30The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 31Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 32Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 33Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 34Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 35Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 36Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 37Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 38Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 39Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 40Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 41Due 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 42Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 43Mother 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 44Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 45Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 46Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 47Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 48Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 49Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 50Yves Klein, 1962, monochrome painting (from History of painting)

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