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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 prefer the painting styles, and to a lesser degree sculpture, of technique or style over another has been a feature of artist throughout the ages. In many instances 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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Profile of a Hoysala temple at Somanathapura

Hoysala architecture is the building style in Hindu temple architecture developed under the rule of the Hoysala Empire between the 11th and 14th centuries, in the region known today as Karnataka, a state of India. Hoysala influence was at its peak in the 13th century, when it dominated the Southern Deccan Plateau region. Large and small temples built during this era remain as examples of the Hoysala architectural style, including the Chennakesava Temple at Belur, the Hoysaleswara Temple at Halebidu, and the Kesava Temple at Somanathapura. Other examples of Hoysala craftsmanship are the temples at Belavadi, Amruthapura, Hosaholalu, Mosale, Arasikere, Basaralu, Kikkeri and Nuggehalli. Study of the Hoysala architectural style has revealed a negligible Indo-Aryan influence while the impact of Southern Indian style is more distinct.

Temples built prior to Hoysala independence in the mid-12th century reflect significant Western Chalukya influences, while later temples retain some features salient to Western Chalukya architecture but have additional inventive decoration and ornamentation, features unique to Hoysala artisans. Some three hundred temples are known to survive in present-day Karnataka state and many more are mentioned in inscriptions, though only about seventy have been documented. The greatest concentration of these are in the Malnad (hill) districts, the native home of the Hoysala kings. (Full article...)

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Jewess with Oranges

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Jewess with Oranges by Aleksander Gierymski (1880) hangs in the National Museum, Warsaw, Poland.

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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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Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance.

Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary steady income life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior. (Full article...)

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

Image 1The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art (France), is a private institution based in a Renaissance castle. (from Contemporary art)
Image 2Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 3Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 4Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 5Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 6Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 7Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 8Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 9Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 10Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 11Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 12Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 13Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 14Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 15Due 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 16Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 17Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 18A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 19Richard Tuttle, 1967, Postminimalism (from History of painting)
Image 20Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)
Image 21Charles Thomson. Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, 2000, Stuckism (from Contemporary art)
Image 22Francis 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 23A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 24Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 25Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 26Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 27The 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 28Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 29Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 30Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 31Loquats 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 32Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 33Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 34Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 35A 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 36Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 37Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 38An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 39Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 40Irbid, 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 41Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 42The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida. (from Contemporary art)
Image 43The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 44Silk 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 45Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 46A 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 47Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 48Diego 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 49Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 50Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 51Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 52Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (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 54Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 55Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 56Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 57Mother 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 58Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 59Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 60Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 61Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 62Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 63Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 64Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)

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