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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:
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
Pop Art and Contemporary art
- Avant garde
- 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
New Materials
See also
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.