The document discusses the domains of visual arts. It defines visual arts broadly as diverse art forms that are open to various interpretations across cultures and time periods. These include fine arts, contemporary arts, decorative arts, crafts, and other applied arts such as graphic, fashion, and interior design. Common types of visual art are divided into two-dimensional mediums like painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, stained glass and mosaic, and three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and installations using found objects.

2. The Domains of Arts
The Arts are unique, expressive, creative
and communicative forms that help people
understand themselves and the world. The
Arts domains encompass a diverse and
ever-changing range of disciplines and
forms that play a pivotal role socially,
economically and culturally.

3. Visual Arts
Fernando Amorsolo’s The Burning of the Intendencia (1942) Oil on Canvas

4. Visual Arts
“Visual Arts” are forms of art that cover a
wide range of artistic expressions. There is
no clear cut definition of the term for it
encompasses various art productions in
different period, society and culture.

5. Definitions of visual art usually encompasses the following:
 Fine Arts
 Contemporary Arts
 Decorative Arts & Crafts
 Other Arts or Applied Arts

6. Fine Arts: All fine art belongs to the
general category of visual arts. These
include activities such as: Drawing,
Printmaking and Sculpture, along with
associated activities like Graphic Art,
Manuscript Illumination, Book
Illustration, Calligraphy, and
Architecture.

7. Contemporary Arts: The visual arts also
include a number of modern art forms,
such as: Assemblage, Collage, Mixed-
Media, Conceptual Art, Installation,
Happenings and Performance Art, along
with film-based disciplines such as
Photography, Video Art and Animation,
or any combination thereof.

8. This group of activities also includes high
tech disciplines like computer graphics
giclee prints. Another modern visual art, is
the new environmental or Land art, which
also includes transitory forms like ice/snow
sculpture, and (pressumably) graffiti art.

9. Decorative Arts and Crafts: In addition,
the general category of visual arts
encompasses a number of decorative art
disciplines and crafts, including: ceramics
and studio pottery, mosaic art, mobiles,
tapestry, glass art (including stained glass),
and others.

10. Other Arts or Applied Arts: Wider
definitions of visual art sometimes include
applied art areas such as graphic design,
fashion design, and interior design. In
addition, new types of Body Art may also
fall under the general heading of visual
arts. These include: tattoo art, face
painting, and body painting.

11. Common Types of Visual Art
• Two-Dimensional Art
1. Painting 4. Collage
2. Drawing 5. Stained Glass
3. Printmaking 6. Mosaic
• Three-Dimensional Art
1. Sculpture
2. Found Objects

12. Common Types of Visual Art
Painting: Paintings have different
genres and they are recognized by
the subject matter or treatments.
These are categorized according to
the subject history or historical
events, portrait, landscape, and still
life.

13. Common Types of Visual Art
Drawing: the most basic and
simplest form of comminicating
visual ideas through the use of
charcoal, chalk, graphite, and ink on
a surface

14. Common Types of Visual Art
Printmaking: is an art form that uses
a process to make multiple copies of
images on paper, fabric, parchment,
and plastic.

15. Common Types of Visual Art
Collage: a medium that uses found objects
(fabric, postcards, tickets, receipts, among
others) and other printed materials such as
illustration, photographs, drawings and prints to
create images. Popularized by Pablo Picasso,
Georges Braque, and other Cubist artists, the
real and painted images are juxtaposed creating
interplay of textures and forms.

16. Common Types of Visual Art
Stained Glass: an art form made of
colored glass used for decorative
windows which light passes. It had been
admired since Ancient Rome but
reached its popularity in the Middle
Ages during the 12th to 13th centuries
adorning the churches and cathedrals.

17. Common Types of Visual Art
Mosaic: a decorative art form of putting together
small colored pieces of glass, stone, marble or
other materials called tesserae on a surface
using cement, plaster, or adhesives. Although
widely used during the Ancient Greece and
Roman Empire, it was in the Byzantine era that
its artistice expression reached its heigh as the
artists decorated the walls of Christian churches.

18. Common Types of Visual Art
Three-Dimentional Art: “In the round”,
“freestanding”, “high relief”, and “low
relief” - various definitions of three-
dimentional art have emerged
throughout history as artists developed
new sculptural materials, tools and
technology.

19. Common Types of Visual Art
The definition and scope of sculpture have
expanded and continuously evelving: from
carving and incising of traditional materials
such as stone and wood; molding and
casting of metal,clay and ceramics, to three-
dimentional collage, assemblage, and found
objects in creative industries.

20. Common Types of Visual Art
Sculpture: is the only branch of the visual
arts that is specifically concerned with
expressive three-dimension form. The two
principal elements of sculpture are mass
and space. Mass refers to the sculpture’s
bulk, the solid bit contained within its
surfaces. Space is the air around the solid
sculpture.

21. Common Types of Visual Art
Found Objects: in the context of Modern Art,
“found object” is referred to as any object,
found by an artist who possesses aesthetic
quality that can denote meanings and value
to the artists and viewers. Another term for
this approach is “ready-mades” which was
popularized by Marcel Duchamp during the
early 1900s.