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People who are enthusiastic about the Visual Arts would be involved in the artistic communities. They would attend events, museums, and galleries to support creators. They would learn about what is happening in the community currently, as well as its history.
Many enthusiasts about this subject are also create art work, working in their own mediums to add to the community and be involved in a direct way as contributors to this field.

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Cindy Sherman has many many portraits using herself, but dresses up and uses makeup to present herself as someone else. In many images she creates a scene and persona that appears as though it could be from a film still. There is a sense of emotion that comes before or after classic reactions. Capturing the moment before the facial emotions that we as viewers are used to seeing. Cindy gives enough cues with clothing, and location that allows viewers to make assumptions or piece together who this individual may be and how they might be feeling.

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Art as History/Tradition
Women's role in art, and the historical context of fiber arts. 

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Art as History/Tradition
Women's role in art, and the historical context of fiber arts. 

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What I am interested in when how fiber art progressed from being considered a craft into being considered important in an art historical context, as well as in contemporary art. It is also important in the context of women's advocacy through art work, and how these traditions have carried on and been adapted into a contemporary art world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_art#cite_note-8

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About | National Museum of Women in the Arts

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Located in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts has a 30-year history of exhibiting and promoting women artists.

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Art as Learning 
How fiber art has changed in a contemporary context

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Art as Learning 
How fiber art has changed in a contemporary context

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Artists like Lenore tawney brought fiber art into the contemporary scene. She used traditional techniques that have been used and know for centuries, and mixed them with experimental techniques and materials. This idea of mixing the old traditions of fiber arts with new mediums as we move into contemporary periods of art is something that I'd like to explore further as I study the history of fiber art and how it has progressed.

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Art as Identity
How fiber art works as an expression of identity and history

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Art as Identity
How fiber art works as an expression of identity and history

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Sonja Clarke uses fiber and hair in her art as an expression of her identity as a African-American woman. She uses references to historical imagery, as well as traditions of African-American hairstyling to build her art as an expression of her own identity and her history. I would like to study this artist because of how this helps bring fiber as a medium into a more artistic expression of identity and self.

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development-Mark Luetke | design-Lauren O'Neill

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Nicholas Nixon took a photo of his wife and her sisters every year for forty years, and it still continuing to take images every year. This work strikes me because we as viewers are only allowed to see an image to represent an entire year of change in these women's lives. We can look at aspects of each image and see how they change. Whether it is pregnancy, hair, makeup, and clothing styles, or general aging. There is such a strong story in this work that can strike the viewer and show them life and change. https://spotlightstories.co/sisters-photo-every-year-40-years/

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Art and Identity - How an image can present personality

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Art and Identity - How an image can present personality

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Diane Arbus presents a lot of photographic work that focuses on the identity of uncommon individuals. This portrait of the boy shows strong emotion and captures the crazy wide look in his eyes as he holds a toy hand grenade. This is powerful to me because she managed to capture such emotion and presents an individual with a persona even though she had never met this boy  before. We are shown a small aspect of his possible personality from one image alone, and that is extremely hard and a great talent to capture.

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The artists from Coachella 2017 have created various abstract art sculptures. They also happen to be the biggest visual art sculptures by far to take place in the festival. Sculptures such as, ‘Is This What Brings Things Into Focus?’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’sullivan, ‘Chiaozza Garden’ by Chiaozza, ‘Crown Ether’ by Olalekan Jeyifous. These art forms were meant to bring a colorful and vibrant vibe to the festival grounds.
https://www.dunnedwards.com/colors/specs/posts/coachella-2017-colorful-art-installations

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OBSERVE, REACT, CREATE
Contemporary Abstract Painting by Betty Krause

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OBSERVE, REACT, CREATE
Contemporary Abstract Painting by Betty Krause

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It is fascinating to watch this lady from beginning to end. I never would have guessed the outcome based on the initial colors she used (black). As she began adding more layers of paint, it started to brighten up.
It seems that colors are guiding her throughout the process.
This video is an opportunity for me to express my feelings through creating one of my own.

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abstract / expressionism / intuitive painting - from start to finish

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UNDERSTAND
The Visual Language of Emotion

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UNDERSTAND
The Visual Language of Emotion

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Many artists, particularly in the 20th century, were thinking deeply about how to represent their minds. The idea of non-objective representation (feelings, beliefs, moods, and attitudes are depicting people, landscapes, objects, and moments in time).
"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass, and other foreign matter added." He added, "I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." -Jackson Pollock

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Art and Emotion- How photographs can convey emotion

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Art and Emotion- How photographs can convey emotion

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Francesca Woodman was a particularly troubled individual who portrayed some parts of her mental state through her photography. Her work , "New York, 1979" could be alluding to the fragile state that we can be in as human beings. The thin spine-like object she holds up to her exposed back brings the viewer to the place of discomfort and thoughts of being fragile. Her composition is well thought out so that viewers can connect this fragile aspect to either our physical states or emotional ones. Either way, it causes audiences to feel a certain way as they gaze on the image, taking in every aspect and applying it to their own lives. This intrigues me because artists apply their own thoughts and emotions to their work hoping to connect to others who may feel the same way.

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LEARN and APPRECIATE 
Abstract Expressionism: Painting

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LEARN and APPRECIATE 
Abstract Expressionism: Painting

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Early abstract painting artists believe that it need not to represent the real world. The emotions could be expressed through the way colours and lines were arranged in a painting. Below sample painting tells me the gestural brush strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity characteristics.
The painting itself as a means of visual communication.
"I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea." -Willem de Kooning

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Art you need to know - the world's best art on ArtStack

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Art that uses forms, such as geometric shapes or marks, which have no source at all in an external visual reality. Some artists of ‘pure’ abstraction have preferred terms such as concrete art or non-objective art.

Abstract art is often seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality.

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Strictly speaking, the word abstract means to separate or withdraw something from something else.

The term can be applied to art that is based on an object, figure or landscape, where forms have been simplified or schematised.

It is also applied to art that uses forms, such as geometric shapes or gestural marks, which have no source at all in an external visual reality. Some artists of this 'pure' abstraction have preferred terms such as concrete art or non-objective art, but in practice the word abstract is used across the board and the distinction between the two is not always obvious.

Abstract art is often seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality.

Since the early 1900s, abstract art has formed a central stream of modern art.

Abstraction across a century

Cubist and fauvist artists depended on the visual world for their subject matter but opened the door for more extreme approaches to abstraction. Pioneers of 'pure' abstract painting were Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian from about 1910-20. A pioneer of abstract sculpture, which took reference from the modern world was the Russian constructivist Naum Gabo.

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Tate glossary definition: Artworks that do not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect