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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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Alcobaça Monastery

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Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal

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“	Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.	”
	— Simon Munnery, Attention Scum!

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Moses, c. 1950

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), popularly known as Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses rose to fame in the 1950s. She was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary in 1950, published her autobiography in 1952, and was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1953.

Starting at the age of 12, Moses worked as a live-in housekeeper for 15 years. Moses and her husband began their married life in Virginia, where they worked on farms. In 1905, they settled in Eagle Bridge, New York. They had ten children, five of whom survived infancy. Moses worked in a variety of arts and crafts. Arthritis forced her to focus on painting as she aged. (Full article...)

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Image 1Loquats 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 2Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 3Diego 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 4Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 5A 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 6A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 7Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 8Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 9Two 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 10Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 11Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 12Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 13Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 14Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 15Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 16Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 17Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 18Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 19Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 20Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 21In 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 22The 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 23Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 24Silk 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 25Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 26Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
Image 27A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 28Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 29Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 30Irbid, 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 31Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 32Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 33Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 34Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 35The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 36The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 37Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 38Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 39Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 40Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 41Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 42Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 43Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 44Mother 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 45Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 46Due 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 47Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 48Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 49Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 50Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)

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