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The Church at Auvers, an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh (1890)

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 to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist and being the furthest removed from manual labour – in Chinese painting, the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes. (Full article...)

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The National Museum of China is an art and history museum located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The National Museum of China has a total construction area of about 200,000 square meters, a collection of more than 1.4 million items, and 48 exhibition halls. It is the museum with the largest single building area in the world and the museum with the richest collection of Chinese cultural relics. It is a level-1 public welfare institution funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. (Full article...)

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Credit: Adam Carr

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, thought to date from between 220 to 190 BC, is one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Greek Hellenistic period. It now stands at the top of the Louvre's Daru staircase.

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

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Tagame at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2017

Gengoroh Tagame (田亀 源五郎, Tagame Gengorō; born February 3, 1964) is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. He is regarded as the most prolific and influential creator in the gay manga genre. Tagame began contributing manga and prose fiction to Japanese gay men's magazines in the 1980s, after making his debut as a manga artist in the yaoi (male-male romance) manga magazine June while in high school. As a student he studied graphic design at Tama Art University, and worked as a commercial graphic designer and art director to support his career as a manga artist. His manga series The Toyed Man (嬲り者, Naburi-Mono), originally serialized in the gay men's magazine Badi from 1992 to 1993, enjoyed breakout success after it was published as a book in 1994. After co-founding the gay men's magazine G-men in 1995, Tagame began working as a gay manga artist full-time.

For much of his career Tagame exclusively created erotic and pornographic manga, works that are distinguished by their graphic depictions of sadomasochism, sexual violence, and hypermasculinity. Beginning in the 2010s, Tagame gained mainstream recognition after he began to concurrently produce non-pornographic manga depicting LGBT themes and subject material; his 2014 manga series My Brother's Husband, his first series aimed at a general audience, received widespread critical acclaim and was awarded a Japan Media Arts Festival Prize, a Japan Cartoonists Association Award, and an Eisner Award. Tagame is further noted for his contributions as an art historian, through his multi-volume art anthology series Gay Erotic Art in Japan. (Full article...)

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Florence Fuller Henry Moore Vincent van Gogh El Greco James B. Longacre Emily Sartain Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri Caspar David Friedrich Maria Dulębianka Lisa del Giocondo Stefan Lochner Eleanor Norcross Danie Mellor Herbert Maryon Jean Bellette El Lissitzky Xue Susu Iso Rae Auguste Rodin Roman Vishniac Salvador Dalí Paul Kane Adolfo Farsari Pierre Rossier Caravaggio Chaim Koppelman Francis Bacon (artist) Jacob van Ruisdael Robert Peake the Elder Benedetto Pistrucci John Michael Wright Tom Thomson Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Rembrandt William Adam (architect) Karoly Grosz (illustrator) William Bliss Baker Gasparo Cairano Joanne Gair M. C. Escher Olek (artist) Grandma Moses Han Sai Por Banksy Pierre-Auguste Renoir John Thirtle Constance Stokes D. H. Turner Edward Thomas Daniell George Vincent (painter) Edward Mitchell Bannister Kanae Yamamoto (artist) Kacey Wong Neri Oxman Emeka Ogboh Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi Maija Isola Hans Namuth

  

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The following are images from various visual arts-related articles on Wikipedia.

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  Image 1Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
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  Image 2Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
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  Image 3Colour (from Graphic design)
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  Image 4Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
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  Image 5Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
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  Image 6Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
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  Image 7Due 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, among other fields. (from Graphic design)
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  Image 8A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
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  Image 9Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
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  Image 10Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
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  Image 11Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
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  Image 12Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
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  Image 13Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
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  Image 14Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
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  Image 15Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
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  Image 16Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
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  Image 17Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
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  Image 18Mother 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)
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  Image 19Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
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  Image 20Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
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  Image 21Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
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  Image 22Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
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  Image 23An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
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  Image 24Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
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  Image 25Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
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  Image 26Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
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  Image 27Two Scribes Seated with Books and a Writing Table Fragment of a decorative margin Northern India (Mughal school), ca. 1640–1650 (from History of painting)
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  Image 28Irbid, 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)
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  Image 29Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
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  Image 30Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
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  Image 31Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
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  Image 32Loquats 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)
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  Image 33Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
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  Image 34Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
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  Image 35Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
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  Image 36Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
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  Image 37Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
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  Image 38Diego Rivera, Recreation of Man at the Crossroads (renamed Man, Controller of the Universe), originally created in 1934, Mexican muralism movement (from History of painting)
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  Image 39Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
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  Image 40Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
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  Image 41Bharat 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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  Image 42Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
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  Image 43A 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)
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  Image 44Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
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  Image 45Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
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  Image 46The 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)
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  Image 47A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
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  Image 48Book of Hours (from History of painting)
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  Image 49Francis 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)
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  Image 50Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
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  Image 51Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
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  Image 52A 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)
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  Image 53Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
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  Image 54Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
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  Image 55Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
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  Image 56Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
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  Image 57The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
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  Image 58Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
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  Image 59Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
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  Image 60Silk 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)
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  Image 61Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
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  Image 62In 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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  Image 63The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)

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