THE VISUAL ARTS PORTAL

Introduction

The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, 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. 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 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...)

Outline of the visual arts

Refresh with new selections below (purge)

edit

Selected article

Architecture at Vkhutemas, book cover by El Lissitzky, 1927

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...)

List of selected articles
National Gallery Dürer's Rhinoceros Sistine Chapel ceiling Buddhist art The Four Stages of Cruelty Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Northwest Coast art Campbell's Soup Cans House with Chimaeras Hoysala architecture Impressionism Dutch Golden Age painting Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball Funerary art Oviri The Raft of the Medusa Book of Kells Olmec colossal heads Grant Memorial coinage Weather Machine Whaam! Léal Souvenir Warlugulong Migration of the Serbs (painting) Ukiyo-e Hope (painting) The Princesse de Broglie The World Before the Flood The Swimming Hole Nativity (Christus) Louvre Hermitage Museum National Museum of China Metropolitan Museum of Art Vatican Museums Vkhutemas Scottish art in the nineteenth century Mathematics and architecture Bois Protat Stars (M. C. Escher) Freydal Low-key photography National Museum of African Art Arts Club of Chicago Urania's Mirror A Vision of the Last Judgement B of the Bang Petersen Rock Garden Happy Brothers Skagen Painters The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne Burnham Pavilions Pop art Lascaux Photojournalism Beaune Altarpiece Dresden Triptych Four Freedoms (Rockwell) Holy Thorn Reliquary Museum of Bad Art Portrait of Mariana of Austria Statue of Liberty September Morn Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball The Blind Leading the Blind The Cloisters The Disasters of War Tornado over Kansas The Entombment (Bouts) Head VI Hope (painting) Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots The Garden of Earthly Delights Marriage License

List of selected articles

edit

Selected picture

Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin

Credit: Postdlf

Paul Gauguin's The Yellow Christ (1889) is a quintessential example of Cloisonnism, a post-Impressionism movement noted for its bold forms and dark contours. The painting now hangs in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.

More selected pictures

edit

Selected quote

“	Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.	”
	— Edgar Degas, unknown

More selected quotes...

edit

Related portals

edit

Selected biography

Oxman in 2017

Neri Oxman (Hebrew: נרי אוקסמן; born February 6, 1976) is an Israeli-American designer and former professor known for art that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work.

Oxman was a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and led the Mediated Matter research group. She has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Boston's Museum of Science, SFMOMA, and the Centre Pompidou, which have her works in their permanent collections. (Full article...)

List of selected biographies
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

List of selected biographies

Did you know (auto generated) - load new batch

... that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?
... that filmmaker Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, has seen the return of many species of bird and plant, as well as pine martens, stoats and otters, to his ancestral lands with rewilding?
... that after Sydney Parkinson died on the return leg of the first voyage of James Cook, some of his drawings were engraved for publication in his Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas?
... that a Post-it Note–sized drawing by Leonardo da Vinci sold for £8.8 million in 2021?
... that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
... that art historian Zehava Jacoby was able to suggest a reconstruction of the lost tomb of Baldwin V of Jerusalem, destroyed in an 1808 fire, using an 18th-century drawing by Elzear Horn?
... that Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn were co-nominees for the 2018 Cinema for Peace Award for their documentary What the Health?
... that the British rap song "Jiggle Jiggle" by filmmaker Louis Theroux has been used in more than two million TikTok videos?

Archive

edit

General images

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

Image 1A 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 2Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 3Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 4Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 5The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art (France), is a private institution based in a Renaissance castle. (from Contemporary art)
Image 6Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 7Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 8Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 9Diego 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 10The 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 11Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 12Mother 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 13Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 14Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 15Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 16Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 17Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 18Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 19Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 20Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 21Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 22Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 23A 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 24Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 25A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 26Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 27Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 28Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 29Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 30A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 31Two 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 32Silk 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 33Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 34Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 35The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida. (from Contemporary art)
Image 36Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 37Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 38Loquats 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 39Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 40Due 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)
Image 41Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 42Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 43Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 44Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 45Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 46Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 47Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 48Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 49Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 50Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 51Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 52Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 53Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 54Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 55An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 56Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 57Francis 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 58Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 59Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 60Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 61The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 62Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 63Irbid, 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)

edit

Major topics

Types of visual art – Architecture • Art intervention • Ceramic art • Computer art • Drawing • Fashion • Film • Installation art • Land art • Mixed media • Painting • Performance art • Photography • Printmaking • Sculpture • Stained glass

Art history – Pre-historic art • Ancient art • Art of Ancient Egypt • Art in Ancient Greece • Minoan pottery • Scythian art • Roman art • Women artists

Western art periods and movements – Medieval art • Gothic art • Renaissance • Mannerism • Baroque • Rococo • Neoclassicism • Romanticism • Realism • Modern Art • Impressionism • Symbolism • Fauvism • Proto-Cubism • Cubism • Futurism • Dada • Art Deco • Surrealism • Abstract Expressionism • Lyrical abstraction • Conceptual Art • Contemporary Art • Postmodern art visual arts.

Eastern and Middle Eastern art – Buddhist art • Chinese art • Islamic art • Japanese art • Laotian art • Thai art • Tibetan art

Lists – Architects • Art movements • Art periods • Painters • Printmakers • Sculptors • Statues

Lists of basic topics – Visual arts • Architecture • Film • Painting • Photography • Sculpture

v t e Visual arts and the art world
Artwork	Appropriation Collage Conceptual art Cultural artifact Drawing Fine art Fine-art photograph Found object Installation art Kinetic art Mixed media bricolage Mural fresco graffiti New media art history digital virtual Painting Performance art Plastic arts Portrait Printmaking Public art street art Sculpture carving relief statue tallest Site-specific art Social sculpture Soft sculpture Stained glass Artwork title
Roles	Artist Collector Conservator-restorer paintings frescos Critic Curator Dealer Model Patron Visual arts education Europe
Places and events	Art auction Art colony Art commune Art exhibition alternative exhibition space Art gallery Contemporary art gallery Art museum Single-artist museum Art school Europe Arts centre Arts festival Artist collective Artist cooperative Artist-in-residence program Artist-run initiative Artist-run space Biennale Commission Sculpture garden Sculpture trail Virtual museum
History of art	Timeline of art Art history (academic study) Art manifesto Art movements Criticism feminist History of painting outline Timeline of 20th century printmaking in America
Related	Art market The arts Catalogue raisonné Classificatory disputes Museum collection management deaccessioning Conservation-restoration paintings Cultural policy Destination painting Eclecticism in art Economics of art art finance art valuation Elements of art Index of painting-related articles Outline of the visual arts painting sculpture Provenance Sociology of art Style
Lists	Art magazines Art media Art techniques Art movements Art museums largest most visited sculpture parks single artist Art reference books Colossal sculptures in situ Contemporary artists Contemporary art galleries Modern artists National galleries Painters by name by nationality Photographers Sculptors female Stolen paintings Most expensive paintings, sculptures, works by living artists
Painting portal Visual arts portal Arts portal