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[[File:Vincent van Gogh - The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|alt=Vincent van Gogh painting ''The Church at Auvers'' from 1890 gray church against blue sky|''[[The Church at Auvers]]'', an [[oil painting]] by [[Vincent van Gogh]] (1890)]]

The '''visual arts''' are [[Art#Forms, genres, media, and styles|art forms]] including [[painting]], [[drawing]], [[printmaking]], [[sculpture]], [[ceramics (art)|ceramics]], [[photography]], [[video]], [[filmmaking]], [[comics]], [[design]], [[craft]]s, and [[architecture]]. Many artistic disciplines, such as [[performing arts]], [[conceptual art]], and [[textile arts]], also involve aspects of the visual arts as well asand arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts<ref>An About.com article by art expert, Shelley Esaak: [http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/f/visual_arts.htm?p=1 What Is Visual Art?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702140440/http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/f/visual_arts.htm?p=1 |date=2 July 2015 }}</ref> are the [[applied arts]],<ref>[http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-forms-of-art.html ''Different Forms of Art – Applied Art''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623143359/http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-forms-of-art.html |date=23 June 2017 }}. Buzzle.com. Retrieved 11 December 2010.</ref> such as [[industrial design]], [[graphic design]], [[fashion design]], [[interior design]], and [[decorative art]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.georgebrown.ca/centres/AD/index.aspx |title=Centre for Arts and Design in Toronto, Canada |publisher=Georgebrown.ca |date=2011-02-15 |access-date=2011-10-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028075227/http://www.georgebrown.ca/centres/AD/index.aspx |archive-date=28 October 2011}}</ref>

Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes [[fine art]] as well as [[applied art|applied]] or [[decorative art]]s and [[craft]]s, but this was not always the case. Before the [[Arts and Crafts Movement]] in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term '[[artist]]' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms.<ref>[http://wwar.com/masters/movements/arts_and_crafts_movement.html Art History: Arts and Crafts Movement: (1861–1900). From World Wide Arts Resources] {{Webarchive|url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091013011648/http://wwar.com/masters/movements/arts_and_crafts_movement.html |date=13 October 2009 }}. Retrieved 24 October 2009.</ref> [[Art school]]s made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts.