Answer:
Artists create fascinating objects and images, such as those found in museums, on posters, and in public places. By visual art, we mean works like paintings, sculptures, and prints that you look at as opposed to performing arts, like music or dance.
Example:
The woman is draped in white, lying on a bed. She's asleep and her limp arms sprawl to the ground. A creepy-looking glowering creature sits on her chest. Above her, a ghostly horse head peers from behind a curtain in the left section of the canvas. Except for the woman, rendered in white and other bright colors, everything else is depicted in deep red, dark brown, and black. We can't see the background, it's obscured in darkness, and we're not sure where the creature or the horse came from. The painting's tone, created by the contrast between dark and light, is mysterious and unsettling. We might not know what's going on, but we know it's not good. The creature, shown in browns and grays, appears to rest heavily on the woman's chest, a feeling we sometimes have when we suffer through bad dreams. So the tone is overwhelmingly dark, the mood is scary, and the theme reflects fears and nightmares.