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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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Representation of the Buddha in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, 1st century CE

Buddhist art is visual art produced in the context of Buddhism. It includes depictions of Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas and bodhisattvas, notable Buddhist figures both historical and mythical, narrative scenes from their lives, mandalas, and physical objects associated with Buddhist practice, such as vajras, bells, stupas and Buddhist temple architecture. Buddhist art originated in the north of the Indian subcontinent, in modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the earliest survivals dating from a few centuries after the historical life of Siddhartha Gautama from the 6th to 5th century BCE.

As Buddhism spread and evolved in each new host country, Buddhist art followed in its footsteps. It developed to the north through Central Asia and into Eastern Asia to form the Northern branch of Buddhist art, and to the east as far as Southeast Asia to form the Southern branch of Buddhist art. In India, Buddhist art flourished and co-developed with Hindu and Jain art, with cave temple complexes built together, each likely influencing the other. (Full article...)

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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds by John Constable

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John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823) hangs in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

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“	Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.	”
	— Henri Matisse, unknown

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Portrait of a Man, a presumed self-portrait c. 1595–1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, pronounced [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈɣɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek.

El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570, he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance taken from a number of great artists of the time, notably Tintoretto and Titian. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings, such as View of Toledo and Opening of the Fifth Seal. (Full article...)

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Image 1Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 2Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 3Mother 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 4Diego 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 5Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 6Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
Image 7Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 8Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (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 10Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 11Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 12Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 13Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 14Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 15Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 16Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 17Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 18Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 19Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 20Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 21Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 22Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 23Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 24Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 25Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 26Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 27Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 28Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 29The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 30Silk 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 31A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 32Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 33Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 34Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 35Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 36A 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 37Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 38Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 39Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 40Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 41Loquats 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 42Irbid, 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 43The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 44Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 45Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 46Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 47Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 48Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 49Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 50In 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)

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