The visual arts are art forms that create works that are
primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting,
sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video,
filmmaking and architecture. These definitions should not be
taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines (performing
arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the
visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within
the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design,
graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative
art. The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine
art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this
was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in
Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term
'artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine
arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the
handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The distinction was
emphasized by artists of the