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Vincent van Gogh painting The Church at Auvers from 1890 gray church against blue sky — *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 on the imagination of the artist to the highest degree and being the furthest removed from manual labour – in Chinese painting, valued styles were "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes. (Full article...)

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A scene from the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s *Freydal* Illuminated manuscript: Freydal jousts with Veit von Wolkenstein (fol.133}

Freydal is an uncompleted illustrated prose narrative commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in the early 16th century. It was intended to be a romantic allegorical account of Maximilian's own participation in a series of jousting tournaments in the guise of the tale's eponymous hero, Freydal. In the story, Freydal takes part in the tournaments to prove that he is worthy to marry a princess, who is a fictionalised representation of Maximilian's late wife, Mary of Burgundy.

The text was never completed, although a manuscript draft is held by the Austrian National Library. Over 200 high quality drawings were created to be used as planning sketches, 203 of which are held in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with a small number of others preserved in the British Museum and the Vatican Library. Based on these drawings, 256 miniature paintings were created by court painters, and 255 are preserved in an illuminated manuscript, the Freydal tournament book held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. These miniatures vividly record the different types of jousts that were popular at the time as well as the court masquerades, or ‘mummeries’, that took place at the end of the day after each tournament. It is the most extensive visual record of late medieval tournaments and court masquerades that exists. (Full article...)

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Portrait of Wally Neuzil

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Portrait of Wally by Egon Schiele (1912), from the Leopold Museum, Austria.

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

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Escher in 1971

Maurits Cornelis Escher (/ˈɛʃər/; Dutch: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world.

His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, and Donald Coxeter, and the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation. (Full article...)

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

Image 1Francis 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 2Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 3A 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 4Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 5Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 6Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 7Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 8Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 9Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 10Due 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, digital drawing, video creation among other fields. (from Graphic design)
Image 11Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 12Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 13Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 14Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 15Two 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 16Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 17Irbid, 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 18Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 19Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 20Mother 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 21Poster to promote the Centennial of Argentina (1910) (from Graphic design)
Image 22Loquats 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 23Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 24Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 25Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 26Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 27Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 28Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 29A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 30Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 31A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 32Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 33The 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 34Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 35Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 36Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 37Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 38Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 39Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 40Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 41Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 42Diego 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 43The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida (from Contemporary art)
Image 44Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 45Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 46An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 47Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 48The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 49Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 50Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 51Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 52Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 53In 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)
Image 54Silk 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 55Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 56Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 57Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 58Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 59Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 60Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 61Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 62A 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 63Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)

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