WHAT IS ART:
Collectively the word Art can be described with the phrase- ‘self expression’.
From a broad viewpoint, Art is a collective name for all subjects of study primarily concerned with human creativity and social life, such as languages, literature,
and history (as contrasted with scientific or technical subjects).
Art can simply be define as self expression.
Humans can express themselves in many ways such as painting, drawing, singing, writing of peoms dancing and so on. Any one who expresses his or her self under the umbrella of art can rightly be called an artist. ( This is why a visual artist, a musician and a movie actor can all be called artist.)
BRANCHES OF ART
Art can be divided into TWO main
branches, they are
i)LIBERAL ART and
ii)CREATIVE ARTS
LIBERAL ART: Liberal Art is the branch of Art that embraces subjects in the Humanities such as History and Literature and those of the Social Sciences like Philosophy.
CREATIVE ARTS:
Creative Arts are
divided into two forms they
i)VISUAL Art
ii)PERFORMING/DRAMATIC ARTS
1) VISUAL ART: Visual Art are those arts
vision, that is, those arts that seek to
communicate through the eye. Visual art
is further divided into two, they are;
i)FINE
ii)APPLIED
FINE ART: Fine Art is that branch of Art which has no other function than the appeal it makes to man’s sense of beauty and higher emotion. painting and sculpture are the two basic form of Fine Art
APPLIED ART: Applied Art are those arts which are concerned with the making of
objects to serve a particular purpose or perform a certain function. The major
aim of Applied Art is to make something useful and of commercial value, often such objects are beautiful as well e.g. Textile design, ceramics fashion design-
graphics etc.
2)PERFORMING/DRAMATIC ARTS: As the name goes, this is a form of Creative
Arts that usually involve the stage in other words they are usually acted or done on the stage they include music, drama and dance.
In this blog we shall be consentrating on Visual Art
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