visual arts

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Noun

visual arts

plural of visual art

Noun

visual arts

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 (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 (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

Latin: 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 (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

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