This paper aims to understand the advancement of e-learning and to carve a snapshot of its roles and challenges in the course of imparting visual art education. The paper analyses the role of visual art and different approaches of e-learning. With the introduction of internet since 1990’s, e-learning became the hot spot in the educational field. The e-learning, even though commonly implies with distance education, it occupies a substantial position, due to advanced technology oriented. It plays a vital role in the education system since Information and Communication Technology (ICT) aids, plenty of resources to enhance the teaching skills and learning ability. It provides us interactive audio, visual education, virtual tutors etc. Since, from the time immemorial visual art took a great role for the means of representing our ideas in social norms, values and culture. Visual representation is more attractable and perhaps mightier than wordy expressions.