visual arts

visual arts

English

Noun

visual arts

1. plural of visual art

Noun

visual arts

1. Art forms that are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.

Usage notes

• Often used as a plurale tantum.

Related terms

• plastic arts (Art involving three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture.)

Translations

art forms that are primarily visual in nature

Arabic: فُنُون بَصَرِيَّة‎ pl (funūn baṣariyya) Armenian: կերպարվեստ (hy) (kerparvest) Azerbaijani: təsviri incəsənət Belarusian: выяўле́нчае маста́цтва n (vyjaŭljénčaje mastáctva) Bulgarian: изобрази́телно изку́ство n (izobrazítelno izkústvo) Chinese: Mandarin: 視覺藝術／视觉艺术 (shìjué yìshù) Czech: výtvarné umění n Danish: billedkunst c Dutch: beeldende kunst f Estonian: kujutav kunst Finnish: kuvataide (fi) French: art visuel m Georgian: სახვითი ხელოვნება (saxviti xelovneba) German: bildende Kunst f Greek: εικαστικές τέχνες f pl (eikastikés téchnes) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: אומנות חזותית‎ f (omanút khazutít) Hindi: दृश्य कला (dŕśya kalā) Hungarian: képzőművészet (hu) Icelandic: sjónlist f Ido: arti vidala Italian: arte visiva f, arte visuale f Japanese: 視覚芸術 (しかくげいじゅつ, shikaku geijutsu), ビジュアルアート (bijuaru āto) Kazakh: бейнелеу өнері (beineleu önerı) Khmer: ទស្សន៍សិល្បៈ (tŭəh səlləpaʼ) Korean: 시각 예술(視覺藝術) (sigak yesul) Latin: artes visuales Latvian: tēlotāja māksla f, vizuālā māksla f, tēlotājmāksla f Macedonian: ликовна уметност f (likovna umetnost) Malay: seni tampak, seni visual (ms) Maltese: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: billedkunst m Nynorsk: biletkunst m Persian: هنرهای تجسمی‎ (fa) pl (honar-hâ-ye tajassomi) Polish: sztuki wizualne f pl, sztuki plastyczne f pl Portuguese: artes visuais (pt) f pl Romanian: artă vizuală f Russian: изобрази́тельное иску́сство (ru) n (izobrazítelʹnoje iskússtvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ликовна уметност f, ликовна умјетност f Roman: likovna umetnost f, likovna umjetnost f Slovak: výtvarné umenie n Slovene: likovna umetnost f Spanish: artes visuales f pl Swedish: bildkonst c Tajik: ҳунарҳои таҷассумӣ pl (hunarhoyi tajassumī) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: ทัศนศิลป์ (th) (tát-sà-ná-sǐn) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: görsel sanatlar (tr) pl Ukrainian: образотво́рче мисте́цтво n (obrazotvórče mystéctvo), візуальне мистецтво n (vizualʹne mystectvo) Uzbek: tasviriy sanʼat Vietnamese: nghệ thuật thị giác Welsh: celfyddydau gweledol f pl

Further reading

• visual arts on Wikipedia.Wikipedia