Outline of the visual arts
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the visual arts:
crafts, but this was not always the case.
Types of visual art
- Architecture, process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art.
- Arts and crafts
- Asemic writing
- Animation
- Cartoon
- Ceramic art
- Collage
- Comics
- Conceptual art
- Decollage
- Decorative art
- Design, as a verb, it refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a new object (machine, building, product, etc.). As a noun, it is used both for the final plan or proposal (a drawing, model, or other description), or the result of implementing that plan or proposal (the object produced).
- Fashion design
- Garden design
- Graphic design
- Motion graphic design
- Web design, creation and maintenance of websites
- Digital art
- Drawing
- Embroidery
- Film
- Found object
- Glass art
- Graffiti
- Illustration
- Installation art
- Lacquerware
- Land art
- Mail art
- Mixed media
- Narrative Art
- Textile arts
- Painting
- Paper art
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Etching
- Lithography
- Screen-printing
- Rock balancing
- Sculpture
- Street art
- Tattoos
- Typography
- Video art
- Visual poetry
History of the visual arts
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- History of animation
- Arts and Crafts movement
- History of ceramic art
- History of comics
- History of conceptual art
- History of decorative arts
- History of drawing
- History of fashion design
- History of film
- History of graffiti
- History of illustration
- History of installation art
- History of mixed media
- History of painting
- History of photography
- History of printmaking
- History of etching
- History of lithography
- History of screen-printing
- History of sculpture
- History of video art
Elements of art
Elements of art – shape, form, value, line, color, space and texture
- Shape – area defined by edges
- Form – perceived volume or dimensionality
- Value – use of lightness (tint, or white) and darkness (shade, or black) in a piece of art
- Line – straight or curved marks that span a distance between two points. For example, see line art.
- Color – produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
- Space – area that an artist provides for a particular purpose. Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or area(s) around, between, and within things.
- Texture – the way a three-dimensional work actually feels when touched, or the visual "feel" of a two-dimensional work
General visual art concepts
- Animation
- Art collector
- Art gallery
- Art movement
- Cartoon
- Collage
- Composition
- Contemporary art
- Copyright
- Decorative art
- Derivative work
- Design
- Found object
- Giclée
- Graphic design
- Illustration
- Mixed media
- ModulArt
- Paint
- Paint brush
- Portraiture
- Printing press
- Old master print
- Sketchbook
Visual artists
- List of animators
- List of fashion designers
- List of film and television directors
- List of painters
- List of photographers
- List of sculptors
- List of Stone Age art
- List of studio potters
- List of people associated with the Académie Julian
See also
- Art
- List of artistic media
- Timeline of art
- The arts
- Visual Arts in Hong Kong
External links
- ArtLex – online dictionary of visual art terms (archived 24 April 2005)
- Timeline of Art History by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.