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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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Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-to-late 1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture—including advertising, comics, product packaging, celebrities, and everyday consumer goods—into painting, sculpture, and printmaking. By elevating the banal, the kitsch, and the mass-produced to the status of high art, pop art blurred the boundaries between high and low culture. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material.

The movement developed initially in Britain through artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton, who explored American consumer imagery and postwar media culture in collage and painting. In the United States, artists including Larry Rivers, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns laid important groundwork by incorporating everyday objects and commercial symbols into their work. By the early 1960s, figures such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Tom Wesselmann brought the movement to international prominence. (Full article...)

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Detail of Jonah - Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo

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Buon fresco, as illustrated by a detail of Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-1512), is a challenging painting technique involving the application of watered-down pigment to wet plaster. Painters are forced to work quickly to apply the pigment before the plaster dries.

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“	When I've painted a woman's behind so that I want to touch it, then it's finished!	”
	— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vollard, Ambroise (1925). Renoir: an initimate record. Translated by Van Dooren, Harold L.; Weaver, Randolph T. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 57. OCLC 631984646.

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Kacey Wong in 2014.

Kacey Wong (born 1970) is a Hong Kong visual artist and educator – formerly Assistant Professor at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wong has received the Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Award by the Hong Kong Art Museum (2012), Best Artist Award (2010); and Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award (2003). Wong is politically engaged through his art, and is founding member of art-activist groups Art Citizens and the Umbrella Movement Art Preservation.

Wong emigrated to Taiwan in July 2021 due to the crackdown in Hong Kong under the national security law. (Full article...)

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Image 1A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 2Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 3Yves Klein, 1962, monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 4Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 5Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 6Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 7Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 8A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 9Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 10Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 11Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 12Due 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 13Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
Image 14Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 15Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 16Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 17Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 18Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 19Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 20Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 21Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 22Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 23Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 24Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 25Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 26Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 27Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 28Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 29Silk 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 30An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 31Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 32Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 33Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 34Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 35Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 36Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 37Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 38Loquats 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 39Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (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 41Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 42Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 43Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 44Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 45Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 46A 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 47Irbid, 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 48The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 49Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 50Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)

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