<P> The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture . Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types . Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art . </P> <P> Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case . Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term' artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media . The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms . Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts . </P> <P> The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature of Western art as well as East Asian art . In both regions painting has been seen as relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist, and the furthest removed from manual labour--in Chinese painting the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar - painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs . The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes . </P>

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