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means The category of creative work — painting, sculpture, photography, film, and the like — that you experience primarily by looking, rather than reading, hearing, or watching performed live.

from Both halves come through French from Latin: 'visual' from 'visus,' the past participle of 'videre,' to see; 'art' from 'ars,' meaning skill or craft. The pairing itself is a modern organizational habit — people needed a way to carve 'the arts' into categories by sense, separating things seen (painting, sculpture) from things heard (music) or performed (dance, theater). So the phrase isn't ancient; it's a tidy label built from very old Latin parts.