Visual arts

 The visual arts are art forms such as   painting,  drawing,  printmaking ( engraving)  ,  sculpture,  ceramics,  photography,  video, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture.

Some traditional painting and drawing techniques

• Acrylic paint
• Gouache /Tempera 
• Ink
• Oil paint
• Watercolor
• Marker
• Pencil
• Colored pencil

The pictorial genres are usually classified in terms of their thematic content: portrait and self-portrait, still life, landscape and marine, abstract ... (there is more like religious, mythological, allegorical, history, etc.)

• Portrait mainly of a person (animal or personified thing). It is considered self-portrait when it is the portrait of the author of the work.

Pompadour   de Modigliani

• Still life . It is a work of art that represents animals, flowers and other objects, which can be natural (fruits, food, plants, rocks or shells) or man-made (kitchen utensils, table or house, antiques, books, jewelry , coins, pipes, etc.) in a given space.

Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

• Landscape is the graphic representation of extensive terrain. It is known as marine, any visual language (painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture ...) whose main inspiration is the sea.

The starry night of Vincent Van Gogh

• Abstract is a form of artistic expression that dispenses with any figuration and proposes a new reality different from the natural one. Use a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition that can exist regardless of real-world visual references.

Composition in red, yellow, blue and black, by Piet Mondrian.

Iconicity. THE PLASTIC FORM: REALISTIC, FIGURE AND ABSTRACT
Figurative images are those in which we can recognize the object represented. As that degree of similarity or approach with reality decreases, the image will reach increasing degrees of abstraction. The image faithful to the reality it represents is called realistic, sometimes confusing with it (Hyperrealism)