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'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...
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| x Drawing |
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Sandro Del-Prete | Untitled |
Drawing is a 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, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers,...
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| Edvard Munch | Woman | |||
| Lee Brown Coye | Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color | |||
| Louis Wolchonok | Junior High School, Hertforshire, England | |||
| Carl Gaertner | Suprematist Drawing | |||
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| x Sculpture |
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Simon Penny | X Crib |
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, sound, and/or text and or light, commonly stone (either rock or marble), metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or...
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| Santiago Calatrava | Untitled | |||
| Eva Hesse | Drains | |||
| Herman Wilhelm Bissen | Pietà | |||
| Edvard Munch | 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). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls,...
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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 (pronounced /fәˈtɒɡrәfi/) (from Greek φωτο and γραφία) is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light...
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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 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 | |||
| Martin Slidel | Fleurs et fruits | |||
| Julie Brookman | Les Abeilles | |||
| Seymour Fogel | The Guitar (Statue d'epouvante) | |||
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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, so excluding glass and also mosaic, normally made from glass tesserae. Some ceramic...
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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 material. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral...
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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 | ||
| Vote | ||||
| Change | ||||
| Whale | ||||
| x Installation art |
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Rachel Wilberforce | The Last Clown |
Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space.
Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art;...
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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 |
Comics (via Latin, from the Greek "Κωμικός", kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy", from kōmos "revel".) is a graphic medium in which images are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey...
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| Matsuri Hino | ||||
| 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. Although this group was formed as a parody of...
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| Cath | Free Influencer | |||
| Stweet | ||||
| Around the World | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Derek R. Audette | ||||
| x Printing |
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Csaba Markus | Two Women on the Shore |
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, 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.
Woodblock...
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| James Rosenquist | The Three Crosses | |||
| Raphael Soyer | ||||
| Hieronymus Cock | ||||
| x Tattoo |
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Lyle Tuttle |
A tattoo artist (also tattooer or tattooist) is a person who applies permanent decorative tattoos, often in a dedicated business called a tattoo shop, tattoo studio or tattoo parlour. Tattooers usually learn their craft via an apprenticeship under...
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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 |
A relief is a sculptured artwork where a modelled form is raised, or in sunken-relief lowered, from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project (or sink). Reliefs are common throughout the world, for example on the walls of...
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| Madonna of the Steps | ||||
| Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels | ||||
| Virgin and Child | ||||
| The Nymph of Fountainebleau | ||||
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| x Bas-relief |
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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 painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), which has Latin...
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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 directly on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface.
Murals of sorts date to prehistoric times such as the paintings on the Caves of Lascaux in southern France (18.000 BC). Many ancient murals have...
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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 |
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and the...
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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 ductile materials. It is typically accomplished with a combination of heat and pressure on the paper. This is achieved by using a metal die (female) usually...
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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 | |||
| To Disembark or, The Price of the Ticket, from the portfolio, Narratives | ||||
| 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, bridges and oil refineries to delicate jewellery. It therefore includes a...
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| Tiara of Saitaferne | ||||
| Sard Ewer | ||||
| Anne of Austria's chest | ||||
| Goblet | ||||
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| x Glass |
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Cameron J. Smith | Tet, Chain, and Lace |
Hot glass, glassblowing, art glass,lampworked glass
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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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| x Video art |
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Shuli Nachshon | Cyclorama |
Video Art was an educational game console from LJN, introduced in 1987. Similar in functionality to basic personal computer paint programs such as MacPaint or Microsoft Paint, the platform offered interactive coloring book-style games, as well as...
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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: coller, to glue) 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 include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand...
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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, woven on a vertical loom. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the warp) and those parallel to the width (called the weft); the warp threads are set up...
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| Hossein Zenderoudi | Suaire de St-Josse | |||
| Tapestry of The Life of Louis XIV | ||||
| Carpet bearing the arms of France | ||||
| Moses Saved from the Waters | ||||
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| x Manga |
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Akihiro Yamada |
Manga (in kanji 漫画; in hiragana まんが; in katakana マンガ, listen (help·info)) (English: /ˈmɑːŋɡə/) consist of comics and print cartoons (sometimes also called komikku コミック), in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in...
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| Katsuhiro Otomo | ||||
| Akiko Hatsu | ||||
| Yasuko Sakata | ||||
| x Statue |
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Madonna of Bruges |
A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger. Its primary concern is representational.
The definition of a...
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| Madonna of the Steps | ||||
| Our Lady of Aparecida | ||||
| Our Lady of Arcachon | ||||
| The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Bechouat | ||||
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| x Bust |
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A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human figure, depicting a person's head and neck, as well as a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. These forms recreate the...
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