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Thevisual arts areart forms such aspainting,drawing,printmaking,sculpture,ceramics,photography,video,image,filmmaking,design,crafts, andarchitecture. Manyartistic disciplines such asperforming arts,conceptual art, andtextile arts, also involve aspects of the visual arts, as well as arts of other types. Within the visual arts, theapplied arts, such asindustrial design,graphic design,fashion design,interior design, anddecorative art are also included.
Current usage of the term "visual arts" includesfine art as well asapplied ordecorative arts andcrafts, but this was not always the case. Before theArts and Crafts Movement in 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.Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner ofthe arts.
The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature ofWestern art as well asEast Asian art. In both regions, painting has been seen as relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist and being the furthest removed from manual labour – inChinese painting, the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Westernhierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes. (Full article...)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Dutch:De tuin der lusten,lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title given to afive-panel triptych (threeoil-painted panels when open, twooak panels when closed) by theEarly Netherlandish masterHieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. Because of Bosch'sreligious beliefs, interpretations of the work typically assume it is a warning against the perils of temptation. The outer panels place the work on the Third Day of Creation. The intricacy of its symbolism, particularly that of the central panel, has led to a wide range of scholarly interpretations over the centuries.
Twentieth-century art historians are divided as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of the paradise lost. He painted three large triptychs (the others areThe Last Judgment ofc. 1482 andThe Haywain Triptych ofc. 1516) that can be read from left to right and in which each panel was essential to the meaning of the whole. Each of these three works presents distinct yet linked themes addressinghistory andfaith. Triptychs from this period were generally intended to be read sequentially, the left and right panels often portrayingEden and theLast Judgment respectively, while the main subject was contained in the centerpiece. (Full article...)
| “ | Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. | ” |
| —Henri Matisse, unknown |
Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of 2009National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born inMackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaking tertiary studies atNorth Adelaide School of Art, theAustralian National University (ANU) andBirmingham Institute of Art and Design. He then took up a post lecturing atSydney College of the Arts. He works in different media includingprintmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Considered a key figure incontemporary Indigenous Australian art, the dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship betweenIndigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures.
Since 2000, Mellor's works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibitions; in 2003 he was awarded a "highly commended", for his printCyathea cooperi, and in 2009 he won the principal prize, for a mixed media workFrom Rite to Ritual. His other major exhibitions have included thePrimavera 2005 show at theMuseum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the inauguralNational Indigenous Art Triennial (Culture Warriors) at theNational Gallery of Australia in 2007. In 2012, his work was included in theNational Museum of Australia's exhibitionMenagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture as well as in the second National Indigenous Art Triennial, while international recognition came in 2013 with representation in the National Gallery of Canada's exhibition of international indigenous art. (Full article...)
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