Visual Arts
Scope Note
Information on those arts that produce material objects whose expressive dimension is primarily visual in nature. This category includes information on genres in visual arts (e.g., beadwork, drawing, painting, dyes and their use, printmaking, quillwork, sculpture, carving); specialists in visual arts; design and pattern; styles; and symbolism.
History Note
This category, term, and scope note were introduced in 1997. To find information on this subject in material indexed before 1997 search for terms "Decorative Art" (531) and "Representative Art" (532).
- Broader Term
- 530 Art
- Related Terms
- 211 Mnemonic Devices
- 212 Writing
- 215 Photography And Photo Reproduction
- 217 Archives
- 280 Leather, Textiles, And Fabrics
- 290 Clothing
- 301 Ornament
- 302 Personal Grooming
- 304 Body Alterations
- 306 Jewelry Manufacture
- 341 Architecture
- 353 Building Interiors And Arrangement
- 386 Paint And Dye Manufacture
- 410 Tools And Appliances
- 447 Advertising
- 517 Leisure Time Activities
- 531 Decorative Art
- 531 Decorative Art
- 532 Representative Art
- 532 Representative Art
- 549 Art And Recreational Supplies Industries
- 778 Sacred Objects And Places
- 822 Ethnophysics
- Use Fors
- Ancient art
- Anthropomorphism (visual arts before 1997)
- Archetype (a type of art object)
- Art (cave)
- Art (decorative 1997 and after)
- Art (pictorial 1997 and after)
- Art (portable)
- Art (representative 1997 and after)
- Bas-reliefs (1997 and after)
- Beadwork (art 1997 and after)
- Cartoonists (1997 and after)
- Cartoons (1997 and after)
- Carving in art (1997 and after)
- Commercial art (1997 and after)
- Crucifix (art)
- Decorative art (1997 and after)
- Designs (1997 and after)
- Draftsmanship in art (1997 and after)
- Drawing (1997 and after)
- Effigies (as art)
- Effigy (as art)
- Embroidery (design)
- Engraving (1997 and after)
- Etchings (1997 and after)
- Fertility symbols in art
- Figurines (after 1997)
- Form (ideas about in visual arts 1997 and after)
- Graffiti (art 1997 and after)
- Icon (religious art 1997 and after)
- Iconography (1997 and after)
- Incising (artistic technique, 1997 and after)
- Inlay (visual art 1997 and after)
- Masks, as art (1997 and after)
- Models (representational art)
- Paintings (cave)
- Patterns (art 1997 and after)
- Patterns and designs in visual art (1997 and after)
- Petroglyphs, as art (1997 and after)
- Pictographs (art 1997 and after)
- Pictorial art (1997 and after)
- Portraiture (1997 and after)
- Quilts (designs used 1997 and after)
- Representative art (1997 and after)
- Sculpture (1997 and after)
- Sketches in visual arts (1997 and after)
- Statuary (visual arts 1997 and after)
- Venus figurines
- Identifier
- 5311
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