Outline of the visual arts

Color is an important aspect of many of the visual arts.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the visual arts:

Visual arts – class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature. Visual Arts that produce three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and architecture, are known as plastic arts. The current usage of visual arts includes fine arts as well as crafts, but this was not always the case.

Types of visual art

• aerosol 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 –
• 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 –
• Drawing –
• Film –
• Found art –
• Graffiti –
• Illustration –
  • Concept art –
• Installation art –
• Mail art –
• Mixed media –
• Painting –
• Photography –
• Printmaking –
  • Etching –
  • Lithography –
  • Screen-printing –
• Sculpture –
• Typography –
• Video art –

History of visual arts

• History of animation
• Arts and Crafts movement
• 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
• Mixed media#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

General visual arts concepts

Main articles: Elements of art and Principles of art

• Animation –
• Art collector –
• Art gallery –
• Cartoon –
• Collage –
• Composition –
• Conceptual art –
• Contemporary art –
• Copyright –
• Decorative art –
• Derivative work –
• Design –
• Found art –
• 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

Some major visual artists

• Salvador Dalí (painting)
• Leonardo da Vinci (painting and sculpture)
• Marcel Duchamp (conceptual art)
• Michelangelo (painting and sculpture)
• Picasso (painting)

See also

• Art
• List of artistic media

External links

• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
• ArtLex - online dictionary of visual art terms.
• Art History Timeline by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Tenability of the Distinction Between Arts and Crafts - essay. (PDF)