Visual art has two main categories to keep in mind: These used to include many arts and crafts, but this is continuing to change as the art world becomes more inclusive and artists become more interdisciplinary. There are more artforms that typically don’t fall under the term visual art, due only to tradition. Performance art, like dancing, typically doesn’t fall under the visual arts. To complicate things, there are a few caveats. Non-objective or non-representational: does not depict anything from reality - often mistaken for abstract artĪs you can see, visual art is about creating visual experience - whether for a setting like a gallery, as in fine art, or for a product, as in the applied art of graphic design.Abstract art: aims to represent real subjects in a different way from reality, for example, impressionism.Representational or figurative art: based on real subjects or events, for example, realism.That includes painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, graphic design, fashion design, film, and more. Visual art consists of artwork that is entirely or in part appreciated through sight.

Example of 3 dimensional artwork