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visual art

n.
1. Artwork, such as painting, photography, or sculpture, that appeals primarily to the visual sense and typically exists in permanent form.
2. often visual arts Any of the art forms used to create such art.
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Ms Usan said marbling art was an old visual art technique that flourished in Turkey even before the Ottomans and imparting it to young students would be a valuable experience for her.
'May I at this point implore the traditional rulers at all levels to encourage their subjects to allow their children who show interest in visual art to study and practice it.
Visual art is art that is experienced primarily through the sense of sight.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines is now accepting nominations for the prestigious triennial visual art award program, the CCP Thirteen Artists Awards (TAA).
The School of Visual Arts dormitory, located at 215 East 23rd Street, is a 22-story, 74-unit multifamily property, which is serving as the School of Visual Art's college dormitory.
Muscat: The opening ceremony of the second international conference of the Omani Visual Art Research Group (OVARG) organised in association with the Cultural Club was held on Monday at the Cultural Centre of the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) under the patronage of Dr.
DOHA, Oct 19 (KUNA) -- Ali Khalil Al-Zaydi, a Kuwaiti photographer, won on Sunday night the palme d'or of the third GCC visual art forum 2015.
Islamabad -- The visual art community has got good gesture from government through allocation of Rs 18.333 million budgetary allocations for their projects including Preparation of Database of Paintings/Art works.
Now new book John Lennon - the Collected Artwork aims to be a definitive guide to the musician's visual art.
Ruth Cayford, from Cardiff council, said: "The Cardiff Contemporary initiative aims to promote visual art in the city to local, national and international audiences.
' Modern Art in Digital Age', was the title of Gru's lecture through which he saw that multimedia is a main form of the contemporary art; although it has not been yet accepted by the prevailed cultural societies due to the fact that the evolution of the visual art is rarely implemented in the studies of the history of universal art.