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Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc.

and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings.

Contemporary topics include photography, video, film, design, and computer art.

Art education may focus on students creating art, on learning to criticize or appreciate art, or some combination of the two.

Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel or copper for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world.

The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser colour, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark".

But the process is slower, especially when one layer of paint needs to be allowed to dry before another is applied.

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

In the aesthetic theories developed in the Italian Renaissance, the highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist's imagination, unrestricted by any of the practical considerations involved in, say, making and decorating a teapot.

It was also considered important that making the artwork did not involve dividing the work between different individuals with specialized skills, as might be necessary with a piece of furniture, for example.

Even within the fine arts, there was a hierarchy of genres based on the amount of creative imagination required, with history painting placed higher than still life.

Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface.

The instrument might be pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets.

An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design.

Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-secondary, undergraduate or graduate programs, and can also offer a broad-based range of programs (such as the liberal arts and sciences).

There have been six major periods of art school curricula, and each one has had its own hand in developing modern institutions worldwide throughout all levels of education.

Art schools also teach a variety of non-academic skills to many students.