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THE VISUAL ARTS PORTAL Visual arts is a class of art forms focusing on the creation of works that are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, drawing, illustration, architecture, photography, graphic design, printmaking, and filmmaking. Works that involve moulding or modeling, such as sculpture, public art, and ceramics, are more narrowly referred to as plastic arts. The visual arts are distinguished from the performing arts, language arts, culinary arts and other such classes of artwork, but those boundaries are not well defined. Many artistic endeavors combine aspects of visual arts with one or more non-visual art forms, such as music or spoken word. The current use of the phrase "visual arts" includes fine arts as well as crafts, but this was not always the case. Prior to the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, "visual artist" referred to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art disciplines. The scope of study and appreciation of visual arts spans the globe, and reaches through time back to people drawing on stone walls. All societies have embellished their tools and toys with more visual interest than is functionally necessary. More about visual arts... View new selected content below (purge) edit  watch   Selected image Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X of France. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The painting is perhaps Delacroix's best-known work. edit  watch   Selected article A side view of the House With Chimaeras, a major art nouveau building, in the historic Pechersk neighbourhood. The House with Chimaeras or Gorodetsky House is a major Art Nouveau building in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It was built in the period of 1901-1902 by Vladislav Gorodetsky, who was regarded as the Gaudí of Kiev. The building is commonly dubbed as "The House With Chimaeras" because it contains various scenes depicting exotic animals and hunting scenes, as Gorodetsky was an avid hunter. It is situated on № 10, Bankova Street, across from the president of Ukraine's office in the historic Pechersk neighbourhood of Kiev. It is currently used as a presidential residence for official and diplomatic ceremonies. The Italian sculptor Emilio Sala made both the internal and external sculptural decorations, such as mermaids, dolphins, and frogs on the roof of the building, sinking ships and hunting trophies on the exterior walls, and exuberant interior decorations, such as grand stairways and chandeliers depicting huge catfish strangled in the stems of lotus flowers. edit  watch   Selected quote “ Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ” — Edgar Degas, unknown edit  watch   Selected biography Salvador Dalí was a Catalan-Spanish artist who became one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. A skilled draftsman, he is best known for his surrealist work identified by its striking, bizarre, dreamlike images. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. In addition to painting, his artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, photography, and an Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Destino," on which he collaborated with Walt Disney; it was released posthumously in 2003. An artist of great imagination, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. Types of visual art: Architecture • Art intervention • Ceramic art • Computer art • Drawing  • Fashion  • Film • Installation art • Land art • Mixed media • Painting • Performance art • Photography • Printmaking • Sculpture Art history: Pre-historic art • Ancient art • Art of Ancient Egypt • Art in Ancient Greece • Minoan pottery • Scythian art • Roman art • Women artists Western art periods and movements: Medieval art • Gothic art • Renaissance • Mannerism • Baroque • Rococo • Neoclassicism • Romanticism • Realism • Modern Art • Impressionism • Symbolism • Fauvism • Proto-Cubism&nb;• Cubism • Futurism • Dada • Art Deco • Surrealism • Abstract Expressionism • Lyrical abstraction • Contemporary Art • Postmodern art visual arts. Eastern and Middle Eastern art: Buddhist art • Chinese art • Islamic art • Japanese art • Laotian art • Thai art • Tibetan art Lists: Architects • Art movements • Art periods • Painters • Printmakers • Sculptors • Statues Lists of basic topics: Visual arts • Architecture • Film • Painting • Photography • Sculpture ... that Bathsheba at Her Bath has been called "Rembrandt's greatest painting of the nude"? ...that Ananthabhadram, a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan, was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma? ...that the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects? ...that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation? ...that the world's tallest statue of Hindu god Lord Shiva (pictured) is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India? ...that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows? ...that Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique? 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Image requests: Illusionism (art) – Nōami – Étrécissements – Villa Massimo – of art and of artists Pages needing attention: Colin McCahon – Jamaican art – Folk art – Product design – Fiestaware – Monochrome painting (was Meditative art) – Reginald Gray (artist) – Science of photography – Studio art – more... Articles needing expansion: Art education – Art of the Crusades – Decoupage – James Turrell – American Impressionism – Crocheted lace – Sacred art – Art fabrication – Chinese painting Jamaican art – more... Art stubs: Commission (art) – Conté – Sanguine – Post-surrealism – Verdaccio – Luminism (Impressionism) – Biomorphism – more... Artist stubs: Frank Dobson (sculptor) – Niko Pirosmanashvili – more... Art organization stubs: Federal Project Number One – Art colony – Not-for-profit arts organization – Arts centre – more... Get involved in the Wikipedia Visual Arts Project. 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