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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 corresponds to the tools or materials used to create an art work. Examples of art form include painting... more

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Drawing Male nude by Annibale Carracci, 16th century Website Category Edvard Munch Untitled
Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencil, pen and ink, ink brush, wax color pencil, crayon, charcoal, chalk, pastel, marker, stylus, or...
Quotation Subject Lee Brown Coye Woman
Louis Wolchonok Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color
Sandro Del-Prete Junior High School, Hertforshire, England
Carl Gaertner Suprematist Drawing
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Sculpture A frog and lizard battle in this contemporary sculpture in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan Field Of Study Santiago Calatrava X Crib
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping hard or plastic material, commonly stone (either rock or marble), metal, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by carving; others are assembled, built up and fired, welded, molded, or...
Quotation Subject Eva Hesse Untitled
Herman Wilhelm Bissen Drains
Edvard Munch Pietà
Colin Dick Amoeba
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Painting The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world Computer Game Genre Santiago Calatrava Mona Lisa
Painting is the practice of applying color to a surface (support) such as, e.g. paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete. However, when used in an artistic sense, the term "painting" means the use of this activity in combination with drawing,...
Art Subject László Moholy-Nagy Guernica
Adaptation medium Egon Schiele Samson and Delilah
Field Of Study Theodore Robinson Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Władysław Ślewiński No. 10
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Photography Lens and mounting of a large-format camera Book Subject Dorothea Lange My Hand
Photography ( or ) is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects expose a sensitive silver halide based chemical or...
Person Michael Kenna Dirt For Sale, Cheap, Dallas, Texas
Website Category László Moholy-Nagy Untitled [LS 10]
Club interest Berenice Abbott Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, Birmingham, Alabama
Broadcast Genre Lee Brown Coye Untitled #1937, from the series House Hunting
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Mixed Media   Visual Art Medium 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.
Adamo Macri Large Composition with Masks
Fleurs et fruits
Les Abeilles
The Guitar (Statue d'epouvante)
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Printmaking mount Fuji, from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji), color woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai   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. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a print. Each piece is not a copy but an original since...
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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Ceramics Ancient Egyptian ceramic art: Louvre Museum   Pablo Picasso  
Ceramics and ceramic art in the art world means artwork made out of clay bodies and fired to form a ceramic. Some ceramic pieces are classified as fine art, while many others can be classified as one of the decorative, industrial or applied art (the...
Thierry Veltman
Joan Miró
John Glick
Alfred Breitman
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Mosaic Detail of mosaic from Herculaneum depicting Amphitrite   Einar Hákonarson  
Mosaic is the art of creating images with 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. Small tile or...
Screen-print       Untitled  
Installation art A clothed tree near a popular intersection Art period/movement Rachel Wilberforce The Last Clown
Installation art uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way a particular space is experienced. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can be any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces....
Rose Frain Life Imitating Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
Corbinian Böhm
Michael Gruber
Shuli Nachshon
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Comics Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay Website Category    
Comics (via Latin, from the Greek "", kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy", from kōmos "revel".) is a graphic medium in which words and images are utilised in order to convey a narrative. Comics can contain little or no words, and consist of one or...
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Net Art   Website Category Albertine Meunier My Google Search History
net.art has two definitions: net.art is a group of artists who worked in internet art from 1994. The members are usually referenced as Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, Heath Bunting. This group was united as a parody of avantgarde...
Free Influencer
Concept art Concept art of the Spitzer Space Telescope   Feng Zhu Faultline
Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, or comic books before it is put into the final product. This is a relatively new...
Roni Horn
Adamo Macri
Printing The folder of newspaper web offset printing press Website Category 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. Block printing...
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Tattoo Photograph of healed back tattoo      
A tattoo is a permanent mark made by inserting ink into the skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification, while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification...
Relief Centaur from the pediment of Parthenon   Charles Sargeant Jagger Battle of the Centaurs
A relief is a sculpture artwork where a modeled form is raised (or alternatively lowered) from a flattened background without being disconnected from it. Reliefs are common throughout the world, for example on monumental buildings. The frieze in the...
Madonna of the Steps
Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels
Virgin and Child
The Nymph of Fountainebleau
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Bas-relief Intricate Persepolis bas-relief stone carvings      
A Bas-relief (, 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 composition project. Bas-relief is...
Fresco Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas   Fra Angelico 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 Germanic...
Giotto di Bondone The Conversion of Saul
Masaccio The Creation of Adam
William-Adolphe Bouguereau The Last Judgment
Madonna del Parto
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Mural Salle des illustres, ceiling painting, by Jean André Rixens. Le Capitole, Toulouse, France.   Sadequain The Last Supper
A mural is a painting 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, but the term became famous with the Mexican "muralista" art...
Knox Martin A Century of Colombian Evolution
José Clemente Orozco
Rex Whistler
Performance Buskers perform in San Francisco Quotation Subject 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...
Alfred Breitman
Joseph Beuys
Bruce Nauman
Embossing An embossed map of the British Isles, from William Moon's Light for the Blind, published in 1877      
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...
Etching     Edward Hopper Folks and Places Abroad, from the portfolio, Narratives  
Leo, from the Leo Castelli 90th Birthday portfolio
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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Metalworking Turned chess pieces      
Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metal 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 jewelery. It therefore...
Glass Hot Glass in the Big Glory Hole at The DO U GLASS Hot Shop   Cameron J. Smith tet, chain, and lace
Hot glass, glassblowing, art glass,lampworked glass
Video art Electrinic Superhighway   Shuli Nachshon Cyclorama
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television or experimental cinema). Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still...
Christiaan Tonnis Lahja (The Present)
Alfred Breitman Numbers
David Hoffos PM Magazine
Adamo Macri
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Collage A collage made from photographs Visual Art Medium   Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
A collage (From the , 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. Use of this technique made its dramatic appearance among oil painting in the early 20th...
Beasts of the Sea
Tapestry A tapestry cushion, depicting pansies     The Lady and the Unicorn
Tapestry is a form of textile art. It is woven by hand on a vertical loom. It is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike cloth weaving where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible. In...