The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as traditional plastic arts (ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, and printmaking), modern visual arts (photography, video, and filmmaking), and design and crafts. These definitions should not be taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines; (performing arts, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types...
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The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as traditional plastic arts (ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, and printmaking), modern visual arts (photography, video, and filmmaking), and design and crafts. These definitions should not be taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines; (performing arts, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types.
The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine arts as well as the applied or decorative arts, as well as 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 was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement who valued vernacular art forms as much as high...
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