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The visual arts are a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, conceptual art, graphic design, printmaking and others that focus on the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature. The visual arts are distinguished from the performing arts, language arts, culinary arts and other such classes of artwork, but those boundaries are not rigid. Many artistic endeavors combine aspects of visual arts with one or more non-visual art forms, such as music or spoken word.
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First stage of cruelty (Plate I)
First stage of cruelty (Plate I)

The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of four printed engravings published by William Hogarth in 1751. Each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero. Beginning with the torture of a dog as a child in the First stage of cruelty, Nero progresses to beating his horse as a man in the Second stage of cruelty, and then to robbery, seduction, and murder in Cruelty in perfection. Finally, in The reward of cruelty, he receives what Hogarth warns is the inevitable fate of those who start down the path Nero has followed: his body is taken from the gallows after his execution as a murderer and is mutilated by surgeons in the anatomical theatre.

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Resurrection by Altdorfer, 1518
Resurrection by Altdorfer, 1518

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter and printmaker, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art.

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He most often painted religious scenes, but is mainly famous as the first frequent painter of pure landscape, and also compositions dominated by their landscape. Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun. His Landscape with footbridge (National Gallery, London) of 1518-20 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil. [1] He also made many fine finished drawings, mostly landscapes, in pen and watercolour. His best religious scenes are intense, sometimes verging on the expressionistic, and often depict moments of intimacy between Christ and his mother, or others. He often distorts perspective to subtle effect. His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries. He also painted some portraits; overall his painted oeuvre was not large.

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Did you know...

January, Très Riches Heures

…that the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a 416-page illuminated manuscript and masterpiece of the International Gothic style, has 300 decorated Initial letters?

…that UFOs can sometimes be seen in Renaissance paintings?

…that in Chinese art the three Vinegar tasters are allegorical figures representing Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism?

…that a genetic defect prevented Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from growing more than 1.5 m (5 ft) tall?

…that Giulio Romano, mentioned in The Winter's Tale, is the only Renaissance artist to feature in a play by William Shakespeare?

…that the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti had an obsession with wombats?

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— Joan Miró
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