visual arts

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

visual arts pl (plural only)

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)

Noun

visual arts

1. plural of visual art

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 (vyjawljénčaje 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 (nl) f
• Estonian: kujutav kunst
• Finnish: kuvataide (fi)
• French: art visuel (fr) 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 (beynelew öneri)
• 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

  Latin: likovna umetnost f, likovna umjetnost f

• Slovak: výtvarné umenie n
• Slovene: likovna umetnost f
• Spanish: artes visuales f pl
• Swedish: bildkonst c
• Tagalog: sining biswal
• Tajik: ҳунарҳои таҷассумӣ pl (hunarho-yi tajassumi)
• 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