"art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture."
Visual arts encompasses a wide range of creative practices, including painting, sculpture, photography, and design, that utilize various visual elements to express ideas, emotions, and aesthetic concepts.
Painting: This subfield explores various painting techniques and styles, including acrylic, oil, watercolor, and more.
Sculpture: This subfield focuses on the creation of three-dimensional physical forms, incorporating materials such as clay, stone, metal, or wood.
Photography: This is the art of capturing images using a camera, encompassing various genres such as portrait, landscape, documentary, fine art, and more.
Printmaking: This subfield involves the creation of prints through techniques such as etching, lithography, screen printing, and relief printing.
Ceramics: This subfield focuses on pottery and ceramic art, including techniques such as wheel-throwing, hand-building, and glazing.
Drawing: This subfield encompasses the use of pencils, charcoal, ink, and other media to create 2D images and sketches.
Video/Film: This subfield focuses on the creation of moving images and the manipulation of the visual language of film/video.
Installation art: This subfield involves sculptural or conceptual artworks composed of multiple elements arranged in a specific space.
Digital art: This subfield explores the use of technology and computer-based tools to create visual art, including digital painting, 3D rendering, and more.
Mixed media (visual arts): This subfield combines multiple art techniques and media to create a single artwork or installation.
Art history: This subfield examines the history of art and its cultural and social context.
Art education: This subfield focuses on the creation of art curriculum, teaching methods, and the development of artistic skills and techniques.
Art conservation: This subfield involves the preservation and restoration of artworks from a range of periods and styles.
Craft (visual arts): This subfield involves the creation of handmade or artisanal objects, including textiles, glass art, jewelry, and more.
Graphic Design: The art of combining text, images, and elements to create visual communication designs like logos or posters.
Textile Art: The art of creating artistic designs using fabrics, yarns, or other textile materials.
Street Art: The art of creating artistic works in public spaces using graffiti, murals, or other techniques.
Collage: The art of creating compositions by combining and arranging various materials like paper, photographs, and fabric.
Calligraphy: The art of creating decorative or handwritten lettering, often used in invitations or signage.
Mosaic: The art of creating a larger image by arranging small pieces of stone, glass, or other materials.
Elements of Visual Art: The basic components that artists use to create works of art, including line, shape, form, value, texture, color, and space.
Principles of Design (visual arts): The overarching concepts that artists use to organize the elements of art in ways that create pleasing and effective visual compositions. These include balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity.
Art Criticism: The analysis and evaluation of artworks, including discussion of their aesthetic, social, and cultural significance.
Art Theory: The study of the theoretical and philosophical aspects of art, including ideas about representation, perception, and meaning.
Art Therapy: The use of art-making as a therapeutic tool to help individuals explore and express their emotions, thoughts, and experiences.
Arts Administration: The management and administration of arts organizations, including museums, galleries, and cultural institutions.
"performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts"
"industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art"
"...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."
"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."
"the most highly valued styles were those of 'scholar-painting'"
"relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist and being the furthest removed from manual labour"
"the distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms"
"painting, sculpture, or printmaking"
"decorative arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media"
"performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts"
"who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms"
"industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art"
"painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture"
"fine art as well as applied or decorative arts and crafts"
"the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts"
"industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art"
"who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms"