VISUAL ART
FORMS
VISUAL ARTS
• are forms of art that you can see,
such as drawing, painting,
sculpture,printmaking, photography
and filmmaking. Design and
working with textiles are also often
referred to asvisual art.
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DRAWING
DRAWING IS CREATING A PICTURE WITH
A VARIETY OF TOOLS, IN MOST CASES
PENCILS, CRAYONS, PENS OR
MARKERS. ARTISTS DRAW ON
DIFFERENT TYPES OF SURFACES, LIKE
PAPER OR CANVAS. THE FIRST
DRAWINGS WERE DISCOVERED IN
CAVES, THAT DATE BACK ABOUT 30,000
YEARS.
Ancient Egyptians drew on
papyrus, Greeks and Romans
made drawings on other
objects, like vases. In the
Middle Ages drawings were
sketches that were made on
parchment. When paper
became common in the
Renaissance, drawing became
an art perfected by
Michelangelo, Leonardo Da
Vinci and others.
PAINTING
Painting is often called the most
important form of visual art. It is
about putting colors on a canvas or
a wall. Painters express their ideas
through a mixture of colors and
different brush strokes.
Painting is also one of the oldest forms
of visual art.
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Printmaking
Printmaking is art that is made
by covering a plate with ink and
pressing it on the surface of
another object. Today prints
are mostly produced on paper
today but originally, they were
pressed onto cloth or other
objects. Plates are often made
out of wood or metal.
PRINT MAKING
The first prints were probably made in ancient Mesopotamia.
Later on, they became popular in ancient Egypt and China.
Printmaking spread to Europe towards the end of the Middle
Ages.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is making pictures by letting light
through the lenses of a camera onto a film. In
analogue photography light was recorded onto
a film, which had to be chemically developed.
Images could then be printed onto special
paper.
Today most photography is digital. Cameras
have no film; the images are recorded onto
silicon chips.
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FILMMAKING
Filmmakers make moving images that
they turn into films. It is a very expensive
and complicated form of art, involving
many tasks, for example scriptwriting,
casting, and editing film sequences
before they can be shown to an
audience. A full-length feature film often
takes many weeks or months to produce.
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COMPUTER ART
Computer art consists of a wide variety of different
forms, from capturing and changing sound to
creating video games.
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SCULPTURE
Sculptures are three-dimensional
pieces of art that are created by
shaping various kinds of material.
Among the most popular are stone,
steel, plastic, ceramics and wood.
Sculpture is often referred to as plastic
arts.
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ARCHITECTURE
It is the art and science of buildings and structures. It is
derived from the Greek word arkhitekton which means
“master builder, director of works,” which is also derived from
the two Greek words arkhi which means “chief”, and tekton
which means “builder, carpenter”.
Architecture is also the art and discipline of creating a
complex object or system.
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