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The area of visual arts and design is extremely broad. Essentially, it is any art that you can see, excluding the performing arts. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as theater, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary; see body art and interactive art, for example, or consider film and media art, which can incorporate most other kinds of art.The following is a list of various subjects related to visual arts and design:
1 Traditional visual arts
(commonly called " fine arts")
- Batik
- Design
- Drawing
- Painting
- Sculpture
- PrintmakingPrintmaking is an process where multiple prints of an image can be made by use of matrix on which the image is created. A composition is created on a surface from which a transfer using ink is possible, such as a plate, stone, piece of wood, potato, etc.
- PhotographyPhotography is the technique of recording, by chemical, mechanical or digital means, a permanent image on a layer of material sensitive to light exposure. The word comes from the Greek words φως phos ("light"), and γρα&phi
- Film
- Various arts and craftsSkills Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and the rest. Some arts a, including ceramicsThe word ceramic is derived from Greek, and in its strictest sense refers to clay in all its forms. However, modern usage of the term broadens the meaning to include all inorganic non-metallic materials. Up until the 1950s or so, the most important of the and textile artThe textile arts include feltmaking, quilting, patchwork, sewing, knitting, crochet, needlework and embroidery. Textile artists use various techniques to create works of art using threads and fibres sometimes in combination with paints or dyes. See also f
- List of paintersThe following is a partial list of painters . Shortcuts to highly popular painters: Paul Cezanne, ( 1839- 1906), French artist Salvador Dali, ( 1904- 1989), Catalan artist Vincent van Gogh ( 1853- 1890), Dutch painter Michelangelo Buonarroti, ( 1475- 1564
- List of sculptorsThis is a partial list of sculptors. A Waino Aaltonen ( 1894- 1966) Agasias Benjamin Paul Akers (1825 1861) Aleijadinho Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 1814) Alessandro Algardi (1595 1654) Enrique Alvarez Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511 1592) Jean Arp (1
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