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L'église d'Auvers-sur-Oise
Van Gogh: The Church at Auvers (1890)

The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature. The visual arts (also known as the plastic arts) produce objects. They are contrasted with the performing arts.

Examples are ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking. Also, modern visual arts which use technology: photography, video, filmmaking and architecture.

These definitions should not be taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Movies and performing arts, for example, make use of set and costume design, sometimes by prominent artists.

Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.

Images for kids

  • 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)

  • Metropolitan Museum 1 (4675714481)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Museums constitute a primary forum for the display of visual arts.

  • drawing of Nefertari with Isis

    Nefertari with Isis

  • Raphael painting of Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary from 1514–1516

    Raphael: Spasimo (1514–1516)

  • Rembrandt painting Night Watch two men striding forward with a crowd

    Rembrandt: The Night Watch, 1642

  • Claude Monet painting Déjeuner sur l'herbe from 1866 artists stiing on picnic blanket

    Claude Monet: Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1866)

  • Paul Gauguin painting The Vision After the Sermon from 1888 nuns gathering around a small angel

    Paul Gauguin: The Vision After the Sermon (1888)

  • Ancient Chinese engraving of female instrumentalists

    Ancient Chinese engraving of female instrumentalists

  • Albrecht Dürer engraving Melancholia I from 1541 seated angel contemplating figure

    Albrecht Dürer: Melancholia I (1541)

  • The Chinese Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest Woodblock printing book from 868 CE

    The Chinese Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed book (868 CE)

  • Hokusai color print "Red Fuji southern wind clear morning" from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

    Hokusai]]: Red Fuji from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1830–1832)

  • Programmed Machines installation by Maurizio Bolognini

    [Maurizio Bolognini]], Sealed Computers (Nice, 1997). This conceptual art installation uses computer codes to create endless flows of random images which will never be accessible for viewing.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Artes visuales para niños

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