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visual art

n. An art form intended to be appreciated or perceived primarily by sight, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.

Usage examples of "visual art".

The Cetians produced one final piece of abstract visual art, a huge blob of varicolored tiles by some philosopher-priest, and they reproduced it as proudly and as often as we copy the Mona Lisa.

My thumping heart was prepared for the impact of the unusual, the unique, for the miraculous in visual art, but instead of wine and fish I didn't find even bread and water.

From the snip's database he retrieved any books and dramas, music and visual art, that he wished.

The visual arts soon followed suit, architecture having already led the way in establishing the links between visual art and mathematics.

All the famous works of visual art were there, right back to the flickering dawn of the cinema.

As with fiction or visual art, a simple thing can mean much more than first encounter suggests: raked gravel for the sea, a rock for islands holding millions of souls, a simple shrub for all the forests.

But Francis Cornish, when he wanted to make up his soul, turned to the style of painting and the concept of visual art which came most naturally to him.