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Visual arts media

  • Conceptual artIn 1967, Sol LeWitt published Paragraphs on Conceptual Art. This text is considered by many to be the movement's manifesto.
  • PrintmakingIn the 5th century, Chinese artisans began printing patterns on cloth using early woodblock methods. By that same era, they had adapted these techniques to…
  • Visual artsVincent van Gogh painted The Church at Auvers in 1890, creating an oil painting that stands as a prime example of visual art.
  • FilmIn 1833, a German physicist named Joseph Plateau unveiled the stroboscopic disc to an audience in Paris. This device, also known as the phénakisticope, spun…
  • Video gameOn the 25th of January 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a patent for a cathode-ray tube amusement device.
  • Decorative artsA porcelain bowl painted with ruins from 1765 to 1770 sits in a museum display case. This object represents the core definition of decorative arts as items…