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Take a look at some of the other types of graphic art, and learn more about the artists working within this category of fine arts.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/printmaking">printmaking</a> <div class="font-serif"></div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/El-Greco">El Greco</a> <div class="font-serif">Spanish artist</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rembrandt-van-Rijn">Rembrandt</a> <div class="font-serif">Dutch artist</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Installation-Art"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/73/172773-050-ACCFFA2A/James-Turrell-American.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="James Turrell" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Installation-Art" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Installation & Performance Art</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">audience" could consist of onlookers on the street or patrons browsing the halls of a museum, among countless other possibilities.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Turrell">James Turrell</a> <div class="font-serif">American artist</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ai-Weiwei">Ai Weiwei</a> <div class="font-serif">Chinese activist and artist</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Apichatpong-Weerasethakul">Apichatpong Weerasethakul</a> <div class="font-serif">Thai film director</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Painting"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/92/215592-050-8DEB0E28/Large-Plane-Trees-Road-Menders-at-Saint-Remy-Vincent-Van-Gough-1889-Cleveland-Art-Museum.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="Vincent van Gogh: The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Painting" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Painting</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">Need help distinguishing your Picassos from your Monets? Learn about history’s celebrated painters and the different styles, techniques, mediums, and forms that have been used to create such unique visual images as Salvador Dalí’s melting clock and the ever-shifting eyes of Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic Mona Lisa.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Surrealism">Surrealism</a> <div class="font-serif">art and literature</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Girl-with-a-Pearl-Earring-by-Vermeer">Girl with a Pearl Earring</a> <div class="font-serif">painting by Johannes Vermeer</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Starry-Night">The Starry Night</a> <div class="font-serif">painting by Vincent van Gogh</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Photography"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/38/24538-050-D9938F94/Hannah-Hoch-First-International-Dada-Fair-Berlin-1920.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="Dada exhibit" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Photography" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Photography</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">Photography’s history began long before we were snapping pictures on camera phones. Learn about the masters of the craft and explore the development of photographic technology as it progressed through daguerreotypes and tintypes on the way to modern day’s increasingly sophisticated digital cameras.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ansel-Adams-American-photographer">Ansel Adams</a> <div class="font-serif">American photographer</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hill-and-Adamson">Hill and Adamson</a> <div class="font-serif">Scottish photographers</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography">history of photography</a> <div class="font-serif"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Sculpture"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/17/256217-050-6B6BE67F/romanian-modern-sculptor-constantin-brancusi.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="Constantin Brancusi" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Sculpture" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Sculpture</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">Looking to find a use for that extra clay, stone, plaster, or metal that you have lying around? 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Perhaps you’ll join the ranks of noted sculptors such as Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, and Donatello.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantin-Brancusi">Constantin Brancusi</a> <div class="font-serif">Romanian-French sculptor</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Donatello">Donatello</a> <div class="font-serif">Italian sculptor</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Cornell-American-sculptor">Joseph Cornell</a> <div class="font-serif">American sculptor and filmmaker</div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <DIV class="marketing-CATEGORY_PAGE_SUBSCRIPTION marketing-content" data-marketing-id="CATEGORY_PAGE_SUBSCRIPTION"><style> .student-promo-banner-wrapper { container-type: inline-size; margin-bottom: 15px; } @container (min-width: 475px) { .student-promo-banner { flex-direction: row; } .student-promo-banner-img-wrapper { margin-bottom: 0; margin-right: 10px; justify-content: flex-start; } .student-promo-banner-text-wrapper { text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; } .student-promo-banner-button-wrapper { margin-right: 0; } }</style> <div class="student-promo-banner-wrapper"> <div class="student-promo-banner d-flex flex-column align-items-center bg-blue rounded p-20"> <div class="student-promo-banner-img-wrapper mb-20 mr-0 d-flex justify-content-center"> <img class="rounded" style="max-width: 100px; min-width: 80px" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/marketing/BlueThistle.webp" /> </div> <div class="student-promo-banner-text-wrapper ml-0 mb-10 text-center text-white"> <div class="h2 mb-10">Britannica Premium</div> <div class="h4 font-weight-semi-bold">Did you know you're not getting the full Britannica experience? 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