The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, modern visual arts (photography, video, and filmmaking), design and crafts. These definitions should not be taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.

As indicated above, the current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, 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 was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art 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 art.

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 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.

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What do they teach in a Visual Arts class?
Q. I'm going to Interlochen Summer Arts camp, and i am majoring in Visual Arts. I was just wondering what i am going to learn in that class. What exactly do you think we will do in that class?
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A. Visual art is art forms that focus on the creation of works which are generally visual in nature, these include painting, photography film making, printing (ie. screen print). Those that involve 3D, such as sculpture are called 'plastic arts'. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, textile arts, and culinary arts) involve some aspects of the visual arts, so the definitions are not as strict as they once were.. The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art and crafts. I imagine that if you are going to do a course majoring in visual arts, you will cover painting techniques, drawing techniques (still life and life possibly), some photography, possibly some image manipulation with in Photoshop or similar, printing… [cont.]
Answered by Neil S0121 - Thu Jul 10 17:48:44 2008

intellectual issues surrounding the production and public presentation of the visual arts In the UK?
Q. What are the intellectual issues surrounding the production and public presentation of the visual arts in England?
Asked by georgeporge47 - Tue Feb 3 10:49:36 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Is this a question? Would the queen have to give the go ahead? If so, then I think that this would be one of the intellectual issues surrounding the production and public presentation of anything.
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Why are these areas of human concern so closely associated with the visual arts?
Q. Religion, sex, politics, and death are inextricably linked in art. Why are these areas of human concern so closely associated with the visual arts? Give examples and discuss your own ideas about these associations.
Asked by Jessica L - Thu Mar 19 09:39:46 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. possibly in the reverse of how you mention, an extricable freedom of thought breaks away from the confines of that controls over human boundaries, those aforementioned are examples of limited powers, the creative arts breaks out of such barriers to explore beyond what is , ..
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