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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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Vkhutemas (Russian: Вхутемас, IPA: [fxʊtʲɪˈmas], acronym for Высшие художественно-технические мастерские Vysshiye Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskiye Masterskiye "Higher Art and Technical Studios") was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.

The workshops were established by a decree from Vladimir Lenin with the intentions, in the words of the Soviet government, "to prepare master artists of the highest qualifications for industry, and builders and managers for professional-technical education". The school had 100 faculty members and an enrollment of 2,500 students. Vkhutemas was formed by a merger of two previous schools: the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Stroganov School of Applied Arts. The workshops had artistic and industrial faculties; the art faculty taught courses in graphics, sculpture and architecture while the industrial faculty taught courses in printing, textiles, ceramics, woodworking, and metalworking. (Full article...)

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Phoenix detail from the Aberdeen Bestiary

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Illustration detail of a phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary, a 12th century example of an illustrated manuscript.

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

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Portrait by William Aikman, 1727

William Adam (1689 – 24 June 1748) was a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in Scotland, designing and building numerous country houses and public buildings, and often acting as contractor as well as architect. Among his best known works are Hopetoun House near Edinburgh, and Duff House in Banff. His individual, exuberant style built on the Palladian style, but with Baroque details inspired by Vanbrugh and Continental architecture.

In the 18th century, Adam was considered Scotland's "Universal Architect". However, since the early 20th century, architectural critics have taken a more measured view, Colin McWilliam, for instance, finding the quality of his work "varied to an extreme degree". As well as being an architect, Adam was involved in several industrial ventures and improvement schemes, including coal mining, salt panning, stone quarries and mills. In 1731 he began to build up his own estate in Kinross-shire, which he named Blair Adam. He was the father of three architects; John, Robert and James, the last two were the developers of the "Adam style". (Full article...)

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Image 1Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 2Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 3Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 4Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 5Yves Klein, 1962, monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 6The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 7Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (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 9Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 10Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 11Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 12Diego 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 13Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 14Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 15Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 16Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 17Due 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 18Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 19Silk 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 20Francis 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 21Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 22Irbid, 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 23Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 24Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 25Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 26Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 27Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 28The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 29Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 30Two 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 31Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 32Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 33Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 34Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 35Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 36Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 37Mother 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 38Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 39A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 40Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 41Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 42Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 43Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 44Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 45Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 46Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 47Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 48The 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 49Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 50Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)

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