Visual arts and design

The area of visual arts and design is extremely broad. Essentially, it is any art that you can see, excluding human performance. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as theater, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary; see body art and interactive art, for example, or consider film, which can incorporate most other kinds of art.

The following is a list of various subjects related to visual arts and design:

Table of contents 1 Traditional visual arts 2 Design 3 History of the visual arts 4 Pop Art and Contemporary art 5 Body art 6 New Materials 7 See also

Traditional visual arts

(commonly called "fine arts")

• Drawing
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Printmaking
• Photography
• Film / Video art
• Various arts and crafts, including ceramics and textile art

Design

• Architecture
• Commercial art (Visual Communication)
• Fashion design
• Graphic design
• Illustration
• Industrial design
• Interior decoration
• Web design

History of the visual arts

• History of painting
• History of sculpture[?]
• History of photography[?]
• History of design[?]
• History of fashion[?]

• Cultural movement
• Mannerism

• Renaissance Classicism
• Baroque art
• Trench art

Pop Art and Contemporary art

• Comic books and strips
• Computer-generated art / Digital art
• Conceptual Art
• Fluxus
• Found art
• Graffiti art
• Happening
• Installation art
• Interactive art
• Internet Art
• Mail art
• Performance art

Body art

• Tattoo
• Body modification
• Body piercing
• Scarification

New Materials

• Plastics in art
• Body fluids in art

See also

• Aesthetics
• Art conservation[?]

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What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics in Visual Arts and Design, please see Visual Arts and Design basic topics.