'Visual Art Form' is a categorization of the visual arts. An art form is a specific form for artistic expression to take.An art form more or less corresponds to the tools or materials used to create an art work. Examples of art form include painting, photography, etc.In contrast, an art genre is...
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| x Drawing |
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Leonardo da Vinci | Untitled |
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels,...
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| Raphael | Woman | |||
| Albrecht Dürer | Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color | |||
| Francisco Goya | Junior High School, Hertforshire, England | |||
| Michelangelo | Suprematist Drawing | |||
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| x Sculpture |
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Michelangelo | X Crib |
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Traditionally, sculptural process have focused on carving and modelling, generally in stone, metal, and wood, but since modernism shifts in sculptural process have led to...
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| Auguste Rodin | Untitled | |||
| Thutmose | Drains | |||
| Igor Mitoraj | Pietà | |||
| Amedeo Modigliani | Amoeba | |||
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| x Painting |
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Claude Monet | Mona Lisa |
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the...
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| Hieronymus Bosch | Guernica | |||
| John Atkinson Grimshaw | Samson and Delilah | |||
| Santiago Calatrava | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 | |||
| László Moholy-Nagy | No. 10 | |||
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| x Photography |
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Dorothea Lange | My Hand |
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as...
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| Michael Kenna | Dirt For Sale, Cheap, Dallas, Texas | |||
| László Moholy-Nagy | Untitled [LS 10] | |||
| Berenice Abbott | Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, Birmingham, Alabama | |||
| Lee Brown Coye | Untitled #1937, from the series House Hunting | |||
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| x Printmaking |
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Edvard Munch | The Paths of the Wisdom of the World: Hermann's Battle |
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in...
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| Louis Wolchonok | Along the Waterway | |||
| Carl Gaertner | Dam | |||
| John Everett Millais | Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha | |||
| Francisco Goya | Picasso's Meninas | |||
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| x Ceramics |
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Pablo Picasso | Pair of ewers |
In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative...
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| Thierry Veltman | Plate (Abimelech Spying on Isaac and Rebecca) with the coat of arms of Isabella d'Este-Gonzaga, Marchioness of Mantua | |||
| Joan Miró | Ewer bearing the monogram of Gilles de Montmorency-Laval | |||
| John Glick | Aiguiere | |||
| Alfred Breitman | Two Plaques with Landscapes | |||
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| x Mosaic |
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Einar Hákonarson | Table |
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a...
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| Trento Longaretti | Mosaic at St. Patrick's in Rome | |||
| Seymour Fogel | ||||
| Gino Severini | ||||
| Júlíana Sveinsdóttir | ||||
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| x Screen-print | Shepard Fairey | Untitled | ||
| Abram Games | Vote | |||
| Thomas W. Benton | Change | |||
| Keith Moreau | Whale | |||
| The Doll and her Bear | ||||
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| x Installation art |
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Rachel Wilberforce | The Last Clown |
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often...
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| Rose Frain | Life Imitating Art Imitating Life Imitating Art | |||
| Corbinian Böhm | Verboten | |||
| Michael Gruber | Clandestine | |||
| Shuli Nachshon | Still Life | |||
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| x Comics |
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A. B. Frost |
A comic (from the Greek κωμικός, kōmikos "of or pertaining to comedy" from κῶμος, kōmos "revel, komos", via the Latin cōmicus), denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative...
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| Matsuri Hino | ||||
| Lydia Venieri | ||||
| Al Capp | ||||
| Louis Ferstadt | ||||
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| x Net Art | Albertine Meunier | My Google Search History |
net.art refers to a group of artists who worked in the medium of Internet art from 1994. The main members of this movement are Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting (irational.org, Daniel García Andújar, Heath Bunting,...
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| Cath | Free Influencer | |||
| Stweet | ||||
| Around the World | ||||
| The Angelino | ||||
| x Concept art |
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Feng Zhu | Faultline |
Concept art is a type of illustration used in the preproduction stage of a product, in order to visualize and adjust the final outcome. The term "concept art" as opposed to "concept design" or "visual development" is especially used in the...
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| Roni Horn | Verboten | |||
| Adamo Macri | Jahrfish | |||
| Seymour Fogel | Ping Pond Table | |||
| Derek R. Audette | paper tube chair | |||
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| x Printing |
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Csaba Markus | Two Women on the Shore |
Printing is a process for reproducing text and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.
The development...
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| James Rosenquist | The Three Crosses | |||
| Raphael Soyer | Schopfungsgeschichte (Tale of Creation) | |||
| Hieronymus Cock | Untitled (Ophelia) | |||
| Anthony Green | Portrait de raymond radiguet | |||
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| x Tattoo |
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Lyle Tuttle |
For other meanings of the word, see tattoo (disambiguation).
A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. The first written reference to the word, "tattoo" (or...
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| Chris Garver | ||||
| Sailor Jerry | ||||
| Paul Timman | ||||
| Darren Brass | ||||
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| x Relief |
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Charles Sargeant Jagger | Battle of the Centaurs |
Relief is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is thus to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. What is actually performed...
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| Marcel Janco | Madonna of the Steps | |||
| Petrus Wandrey | Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels | |||
| Virgin and Child | ||||
| The Nymph of Fountainebleau | ||||
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| x Bas-relief |
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Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier | Robert Louis Stevenson |
A bas-relief (pronounced [baʁəljɛf] in French; French for "low relief", derived from the Italian basso rilievo) or low relief is a sculpture which is not free-standing or in the round, but has a background from which the main elements of the...
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| Barberini ivory | ||||
| Dendera zodiac | ||||
| Harbaville Triptych | ||||
| Code of Hammurabi | ||||
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| x Fresco |
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Sistine Chapel ceiling |
Fresco (plural either frescos or frescoes) is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls, ceilings or any other type of flat surface. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco [afˈfresːko] which derives from...
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| Fra Angelico | The Conversion of Saul | |||
| Giotto di Bondone | The Creation of Adam | |||
| Masaccio | The Last Judgment | |||
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Madonna del Parto | |||
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| x Mural |
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Sadequain | The Last Supper |
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously...
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| Knox Martin | A Century of Colombian Evolution | |||
| José Clemente Orozco | Manuscript Book mural | |||
| Rex Whistler | Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room | |||
| Joan Miró | Mural in Armagh's Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Catholic) | |||
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| x Performance |
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Marina Abramović | Danceperformence Hauptplatz Linz |
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers...
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| Alfred Breitman | ||||
| Joseph Beuys | ||||
| Bruce Nauman | ||||
| Kurt Schwitters | ||||
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| x Embossing |
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Helmet |
Embossing is the process of creating a three-dimensional image or design in paper and other materials.
Embossing is typically accomplished by applying heat and pressure with male and female dies, usually made of copper or brass, that fit together...
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| x Etching | Edward Hopper | Folks and Places Abroad, from the portfolio, Narratives | ||
| Felix Bracquemond | Leo, from the Leo Castelli 90th Birthday portfolio | |||
| Alphonse Legros | Untitled, from the portfolio Five Plates | |||
| Dirk Langendijk | To Disembark or, The Price of the Ticket, from the portfolio, Narratives | |||
| Louis McClellan Potter | Bildnis Wolf Przygode (Portrait of Wolf Przygode) | |||
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| x Metalworking |
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Marty Metalgod Ross | Crown of Louis XV |
Metalworking is the process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large scale structures. The term covers a wide range of work from large ships and bridges to precise engine parts and delicate jewelry. It therefore...
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| Ivo Kerdić | Tiara of Saitaferne | |||
| Sard Ewer | ||||
| Anne of Austria's chest | ||||
| Goblet | ||||
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| x Video art |
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Shuli Nachshon | Cyclorama |
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television production or experimental film.) Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still...
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| Christiaan Tonnis | Lahja (The Present) | |||
| Alfred Breitman | Numbers | |||
| David Hoffos | PM Magazine | |||
| Adamo Macri | Be The First To See What You See As You See It | |||
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| x Collage |
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Kurt Schwitters | Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? |
A collage (From the French: à coller, to glue, French pronunciation: [kɔ.laːʒ]) is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
A collage may sometimes include newspaper...
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| Henri Matisse | Beasts of the Sea | |||
| Michael Dickinson | The Sorrows of the King | |||
| Peter Phillips | La Negresse | |||
| Tine Furler | Blue Nude II | |||
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| x Tapestry |
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Louis le Brocquy | The Lady and the Unicorn |
Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom, however it can also be woven on a floor loom as well. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the warp) and those...
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| Hossein Zenderoudi | Suaire de St-Josse | |||
| Pehr Hilleström | Tapestry of The Life of Louis XIV | |||
| Patrick Scott | Carpet bearing the arms of France | |||
| Michele Wood | Moses Saved from the Waters | |||
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| x Manga |
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Akihiro Yamada |
Manga are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.
In Japan, people of all ages...
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| Katsuhiro Otomo | ||||
| Akiko Hatsu | ||||
| Yasuko Sakata | ||||
| Akemi Takada | ||||
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| x Digital art |
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Ted David Harris | Interlux chair |
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including...
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| Jeremy Blake | Songs of My People | |||
| Joseph Nechvatal | Essence | |||
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| Evan Roth | ||||
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| x Mixed media |
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Manolo Valdés | White Flag |
Mixed media refers to an artwork that uses different mediums. Mixed media artowrks frequently incorporate elements, techniques, and materials from painting, photography, drawing, digital art, and sculpture.
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| Adamo Macri | Large Composition with Masks | |||
| Julie Brookman | Fleurs et fruits | |||
| Seymour Fogel | Les Abeilles | |||
| Geoff Bunn | The Guitar (Statue d'epouvante) | |||
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| x Glass |
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Cameron J. Smith | Tet, Chain, and Lace |
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.
The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica ...
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| Julie Brookman | Olympic Tower | |||
| Richard Marquis | Goblet decorated with an allegorical procession | |||
| Dante Marioni | Glass Painting in the Saint Patrick's Trian, Armagh | |||
| Lino Tagliapietra | Stained Glass Window in Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Anglican) in Armagh | |||
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