Visual arts a created for an audience to observe and look at them, the visual arts field is contrasted with performing arts which are performed in front of an audience. Two dimensional and three dimensional arts are included in visual arts, this includes drawing, graphic design, painting, decorative arts, photography, sculpture and printmaking. Shortly put a visual artist makes visual art.
A visual artist could specialize with any of the visual arts named above and work in many different ways for example a painter could work with one type of pain or a mixture such as acrylics, oil paints and watercolours. A photographer could choose to specialize in just black and white photography or both and work with highly edited shoots using computer photo-editing software programs. Sculptor artists might choose to work with wood, marble, granite, clay or stone or they might choose to just specialize with the one. A drawer might choose to specialize in pencil, charcoal, pastels, crayon, felt markers and pen and ink. Some visual artists like to mix things up and use bits of all the visual arts, this is known as mixed medium.
Visual artists can go to art school through college or university art departments. The degree achieved at the end will most likely be a fine arts degree. Whilst studying its most likely that art history and art theory will be taught as well as a variety of medium before the student will choose a chosen art form to specialize in.
There are many different types of jobs on offer that a visual artist may do apart from or aside just the job of making art. A visual artist, who draws, takes photographs, makes prints or paints could work in the illustration field. A lot of visual artists become teachers, either in schools, colleges or universities. Other artists may get jobs in museums or become art critics.