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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 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 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 World Before the Flood, 1828, 140 by 202.3 cm (55.1 by 79.6 in)

The World Before the Flood is an oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1828 and currently in the Southampton City Art Gallery. It depicts a scene from John Milton's Paradise Lost in which, among a series of visions of the future shown to Adam, he sees the world immediately before the Great Flood. The painting illustrates the stages of courtship as described by Milton; a group of men select wives from a group of dancing women, drag their chosen woman from the group, and settle down to married life. Behind the courting group, an oncoming storm looms, a symbol of the destruction which the dancers and lovers are about to bring upon themselves.

When first exhibited at the 1828 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition the painting attracted large crowds, and strongly divided critical opinion. It was greatly praised by many critics, who counted it among the finest works of art in the country. Other reviewers condemned it as crude, tasteless, offensive and poorly executed. (Full article...)

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Sandpainting in the form of a temporary sand mandala

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“	Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.	”
	— Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (April 5, 1965)

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Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaking tertiary studies at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University (ANU) and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He then took up a post lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Considered a key figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art, the dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures.

Since 2000, Mellor's works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibitions; in 2003 he was awarded a "highly commended", for his print Cyathea cooperi, and in 2009 he won the principal prize, for a mixed media work From Rite to Ritual. His other major exhibitions have included the Primavera 2005 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial (Culture Warriors) at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007. In 2012, his work was included in the National Museum of Australia's exhibition Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture as well as in the second National Indigenous Art Triennial, while international recognition came in 2013 with representation in the National Gallery of Canada's exhibition of international indigenous art. (Full article...)

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Prometheus (1930)

... that abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock considered the greatest painting in North America to be a mural of Prometheus (pictured) at Pomona College by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco?
... that Bathsheba at Her Bath has been called "Rembrandt's greatest painting of the nude"?
...that the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
...that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?
...that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows?

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Image 1Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 2The Pergamene style of the Hellenistic period, from the Pergamon Altar, early 2nd century (from Sculpture)
Image 3French ivory Virgin and Child, end of 13th century, 25 cm high, curving to fit the shape of the ivory tusk (from Sculpture)
Image 4Michelangelo, The Tomb of Pope Julius II, c. 1545, with statues of Rachel and Leah on the left and right of his Moses (from Sculpture)
Image 5Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne in the Galleria Borghese, 1622–1625 (from Sculpture)
Image 6Section of Trajan's Column, CE 113, with scenes from the Dacian Wars (from Sculpture)
Image 7Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 89th-century Khmer lintel (from Sculpture)
Image 9Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 10Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 11Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 12St. James panel, from reredos in Cristo Rey Church, Santa Fe, New Mexico, c. 1760 (from Sculpture)
Image 13Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti, 1345 BCE, Egyptian Museum of Berlin (from Sculpture)
Image 14Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago. Female (left) and male Vertical styles (from Sculpture)
Image 15Edward Hopper 1942, American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 16Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 17Loquats 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 18Sumerian male worshipper, alabaster with shell eyes, 2750−2600 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 19Medal of John VIII Palaeologus, c. 1435, by Pisanello, the first portrait medal, a medium essentially made for collecting. (from Sculpture)
Image 20Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 21Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 22An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 23Charioteer of Delphi, ancient Greek bronze sculpture, 5th century BCE, close up head detail (from Sculpture)
Image 24Dale Chihuly, 2006, (Blown glass) (from Sculpture)
Image 25Small Greek terracotta figurines were very popular as ornaments in the home (from Sculpture)
Image 26Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660 (from History of painting)
Image 27The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 28Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 29Augustan state Greco-Roman style on the Ara Pacis, 13 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 30Open air Buddhist rock reliefs at the Longmen Grottoes, China (from Sculpture)
Image 31Adriaen de Vries, Mercury and Psyche Northern Mannerist life-size bronze, made in 1593 for Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. (from Sculpture)
Image 32Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 33Moai from Easter Island, where the concentration of resources on large sculpture may have had serious political effects. (from Sculpture)
Image 34Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 35A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 36Diego 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 37Antonio Canova: Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, 1787 (from Sculpture)
Image 38Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure, 1984 (based on a smaller model of 1938), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (from Sculpture)
Image 39Mask from Gabon (from Sculpture)
Image 40Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Umbrellas 1991, Japan (from Sculpture)
Image 41Venus of Willendorf, c. 24,000–26,000 BP (from Sculpture)
Image 42Detail of Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Spanish, wood and polychrome, 1793. (from Sculpture)
Image 43A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 44Modern reconstruction of the original painted appearance of a Late Archaic Greek marble figure from the Temple of Aphaea, based on analysis of pigment traces, c. 500 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 45The Gero Cross, c. 965–970, Cologne, Germany. The first great example of the revival of large sculpture (from Sculpture)
Image 46Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 47Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 48Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 49Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 50Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 51Swimming Reindeer c. 13,000 BP, female and male swimming reindeer – late Magdalenian period, found at Montastruc, Tarn et Garonne, France (from Sculpture)
Image 52Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 53Two 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 54Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 55Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 56Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 57Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 58Edgar Degas, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, cast in 1922 from a mixed-media sculpture modeled c. 1879–80, Bronze, partly tinted, with cotton (from Sculpture)
Image 59Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 60Cylinder seal with its impression on clay; serpopards and eagles, Uruk Period, 4100–3000 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 61Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 62Art model posing in a French painting school following the atelier method (from Visual arts education)
Image 63Discussion class on art appreciation at Shimer College (from Visual arts education)
Image 64Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 65Adult art education class at the Brooklyn Museum in 1935. (from Visual arts education)
Image 66Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 67Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft, self-portrait from St Lorenz Church, 1490s. (from Sculpture)
Image 68Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 69Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 70A 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 711881 painting by Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio, depicts an art school life drawing session, Dnipropetrovsk State Art Museum, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (from Visual arts education)
Image 72David Smith, CUBI VI, (1963), Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (from Sculpture)
Image 73Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, in Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of the oldest known figurative paintings in the world, a depiction of a bull, has been dated to be 40,000 years old. (from History of painting)
Image 74Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 75Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 76Urfa Man, in the Şanlıurfa Museum; sandstone, 1.80 meters, c. 9,000 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 77Device to Root Out Evil (1997) sculpture by Dennis Oppenheim at
Palma de Mallorca, Plaça de la Porta de Santa Catalina (from Sculpture)
Image 78Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 79Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 80A carved wooden Bodhisattva from China's Song dynasty 960–1279, Shanghai Museum (from Sculpture)
Image 81A Jōmon dogū figure, 1st millennium BCE, Japan (from Sculpture)
Image 82Ivory with traces of paint, 11th–12th century, Egypt (from Sculpture)
Image 83Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 84Francis 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 85Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 86Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 87Michelangelo, Pietà, 1499 (from Sculpture)
Image 88Visible damage due to acid rain on a sculpture (from Sculpture)
Image 89Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 90The Trundholm sun chariot, perhaps 1800–1500 BCE; this side is gilded, the other is "dark". (from Sculpture)
Image 91The Angel of the North by Antony Gormley, 1998 (from Sculpture)
Image 92Hindu Gupta terracotta relief, 5th century CE, of Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi (from Sculpture)
Image 93Löwenmensch, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, now in Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany, the oldest known anthropomorphic animal-human statuette, Aurignacian era, c. 35–40,000 BP (from Sculpture)
Image 94Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 95The 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 96The Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome (from Sculpture)
Image 97Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 98Silk 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 99Creeping Hyena, c. 12–17,000 BP, mammoth ivory, found in La Madeleine, France (from Sculpture)
Image 100Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 101Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 102The Brunswick Lion, 1166, the first large hollow casting of a figure since antiquity, 1.78 metres tall and 2.79 metres long (from Sculpture)
Image 103Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, circa 800–721 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 104The Drawing Class, by Michiel Sweerts, c. 1656 (from Visual arts education)
Image 105Venus of Laussel c. 27,000 BP, an Upper Palaeolithic carving, Bordeaux museum, France (from Sculpture)
Image 106One of the first representations of the Buddha, 1st–2nd century CE, Gandhara (from Sculpture)
Image 107Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay (from Sculpture)
Image 108Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, in 2005 (from Sculpture)
Image 109Silver monster on a chape, Scottish or Anglo-Saxon, St Ninian's Isle Treasure, c. 800? (from Sculpture)
Image 110Seated Bodhisattva Guanyin, wood and pigment, 11th century, Northern Song dynasty. (from Sculpture)
Image 111Mother 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 112Gaston Lachaise, Floating Figure 1927, bronze, no. 5 from an edition of 7, National Gallery of Australia (from Sculpture)
Image 113High Classical high relief from the Elgin Marbles, which originally decorated the Parthenon, c. 447–433 BCE (from Sculpture)
Image 114Ludwig Gies, cast iron plaquette, 8 x 9.8 cm, Refugees, 1915 (from Sculpture)
Image 115Nara Daibutsu, c. 752, Nara, Japan (from Sculpture)
Image 116Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II (from Sculpture)

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