Arts
is a broad subdivision of culture,
composed of many expressive
disciplines. It is a broader term
than "art", which as a description of a
field usually means only the visual
arts (comprising fine art, decorative
art, architecture, and crafts). The
arts encompasses visual arts,
literature, the performing arts,
including music, drama, film, dance,
related media, and by some definitions,
other areas such as fashion.
Arts Directory: Visual Arts (68)
The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking. Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and architecture, are called plastic arts. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, language arts, textile arts, and culinary arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as other types, so these definitions are not strict.
The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine arts as well as crafts, but this was not always the case. Before 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 distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts movement who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. The movement contrasted with modernists who sought to withhold the high arts from the masses by keeping them esoteric. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts in such a way that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of art
Paintings business and shopping directory features links for artists, painters, landscape paintings, seascape paintings, still-life, animal paintings, oil paintings, craft, egg tempera, museums, posters, watercolors, painting equipment and accessories.
Submitted: 9-Jun-2009 
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