Visual Arts

 Visual Arts

The Visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, Conceptual art, and textile arts also involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.

Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied or decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the arts and craft movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, craft, or applied Visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts.

The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature of Western art as well as East asian arts. In both regions painting has been seen as relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist, and the furthest removed from manual labour – in Chinese painting the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes.

Let us discuss form of visual arts one by one

Painting: Painting is the form of visual arts by which an artist can express or draw his/her emotions or imagination on paper, canvas, wall or on any medium with the help of paint.

Drawing: Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two dimensional surface.

Printmaking: printmaking is the activity or occupation of making pictures or designs by printing them from specially prepared plates or blocks.

Sculpture: Sculpture is the art of making three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

Ceramics: the art of making ceramic articles is called ceramic.

Photography: Photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

Video:  Video is called the recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images.

Filmmaking:  Filmmaking is the direction or production of movies for the theater or television. 

Design: Design is a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made.

Crafts: an activity involving skill in making things by hand is called crafts.

Architecture: the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings is called architecture.

What Can one do with a Bachelor of Fine Art Or We Can say Visual Art?

BFA or Bachelor of fine arts is an undergraduate degree course which deals with the study of Visual or Performing Arts. The course is sometimes also referred to as Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in which the study of Visual Arts includes subjects such as painting, sculpture, photography, animation etc..

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