THE VISUAL ARTS PORTAL

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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, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts also involve aspects of 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.

Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the 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, craft, 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 prefer the painting styles, and to a lesser degree sculpture, of technique or style over another has been a feature of artist throughout the ages. In many instances 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. (Full article...)

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The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind (Dutch: De parabel der blinden) is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. Executed in distemper on linen canvas, it measures 86 cm × 154 cm (34 in × 61 in). It depicts the Biblical parable of the blind leading the blind from the Gospel of Matthew 15:14, and is in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.

The painting reflects Bruegel's mastery of observation. Each figure has a different eye affliction, including corneal leukoma, atrophy of globe and removed eyes. The men hold their heads aloft to make better use of their other senses. The diagonal composition reinforces the off-kilter motion of the six figures falling in progression. It is considered a masterwork for its accurate detail and composition. Copies include a larger version by Bruegel's son Pieter Brueghel the Younger, and the work has inspired literature such as poetry by Charles Baudelaire and William Carlos Williams, and a novel by Gert Hofmann. (Full article...)

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Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his etchings of imaginary "prisons" as illustrated here by Plate VI: The Smoking Fire from Carceri d'Invenzione.

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

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Oxman in 2017

Neri Oxman (Hebrew: נרי אוקסמן; born February 6, 1976) is an American–Israeli designer and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she led the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering.

Her work embodies environmental design and digital morphogenesis, with shapes and properties that are determined by their context. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work, placing materials in context. Stylistic trademarks include brightly colored and textured surfaces with structure at many scales, and composite materials whose hardness, color, and shape vary over an object. The results are often in collaboration with or inspired by nature and biology. (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 Gengoroh Tagame 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.

Image 1The 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 2Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 3Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 4Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 5Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 6Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 7Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 8Diego 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 9Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 10Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 11Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 12Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 13Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 14A 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 15A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 16Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 17Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 18Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 19Mother 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 20An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 21The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1657 (from History of painting)
Image 22Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 23The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art (France), is a private institution based in a Renaissance castle. (from Contemporary art)
Image 24The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 25Dona i Ocell, by Joan Miró (from Contemporary art)
Image 26Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 27Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 28Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 29Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 30Irbid, 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 31Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 32Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 33Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 34A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 35Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 36Two 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 37Charles Thomson. Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, 2000, Stuckism (from Contemporary art)
Image 38Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 39Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 40Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 41Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 42Silk 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 43Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 44Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, in Kalimantan, Indonesia, contains one of the oldest known figurative paintings, a 40,000 year-old depiction of a bull. (from History of painting)
Image 45Loquats 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 46Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 47Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 48Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 49Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 50Richard Tuttle, 1967, Postminimalism (from History of painting)
Image 51Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 52Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 53Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 54Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 55The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida. (from Contemporary art)
Image 56Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 57Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 58Rose, by Isa Genzken (from Contemporary art)
Image 59Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 60Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 61A 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)
Image 62Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 63Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 64Francis 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 65Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 66Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)

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