Visual Arts

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art : produced as an artistic effort or for decorative purposes — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Grove Dictionary of Art (Jane Shoaf Turner)
Artlex: Art Dictionary

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online (The Getty Research Institute)

Encyclopedia

Visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and film making. Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and architecture, are called plastic arts. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, language arts, textile arts, and culinary arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as other types, so these definitions are not strict. — Wikipedia

Visual Art (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Oxford Art Online

The Art Story

Artcyclopedia (John Malyon)

Art & Design (Wolfram Alpha)
Famous Artwork (Wolfram Alpha)

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Exploration

Walk-in-Art & Museums

Here is a “Web World” for exploring famous Art and Art Museums.

Touch the art and doorways to visit 360° experiences.

You can also explore it on Kuula.

Walk-in-Art

This 360° image is an earlier Toy World.

Click on paintings to walk into them!

You can also explore it on Kuula.

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Adventures

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