Outline of the visual arts

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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

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
Computer art
Internet art
Drawing
Embroidery
Film
Found object
Glass art
Graffiti
Illustration
Concept art
Installation art
Lacquerware
Land art
Mail art
Mixed media
Narrative Art
Textile arts
Dyeing
Painting
Paper art
Calligraphy
Origami
Photography
Printmaking
Etching
Lithography
Screen-printing
Rock balancing
Sculpture
Street art
Tattoos
Typography
Video art
Visual poetry

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.
Properties of color
Hue – red, yellow, blue, green, etc.
Intensity
Value (brightness)
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

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20050424084418/http://www.artlex.com/ ArtLex] – online dictionary of visual art terms (archived 24 April 2005)
[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ Timeline of Art History] by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.