VISUAL ART

VISUAL ART- Definition

are art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature. are those creations we can look at, such as a drawing or a painting. include two-dimensional and three-dimensional arts.

Definition of Visual art usually encompass the following:

Fine Arts Contemporary Arts Decorative Arts Applied Arts

Fine Arts

FINE ARTS- Definition

A visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness art for art's sake

FINE ARTS- Drawing

Defined as the linear realization of visual objects, concepts, emotions, and fantasies, including symbols and even abstract forms. Drawing is a graphic art which is characterized by an emphasis on form or shape.

FINE ARTS- Painting

The art of painting consists of the arrangement of shapes, lines, colors, tones and textures on a two-dimensional surface, thus creating an aesthetic image. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or other medium to a surface.

FINE ARTS- Printmaking

Printmaking is concerned with the production of images by varying methods of replication onto paper, parchment, fabric or other supports.

FINE ARTS- Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Materials may be worked by removal such as carving; or they may be assembled such as by welding, hardened such as by firing, or molded or cast.

FINE ARTS- Graphic

art

The term 'graphic art' commonly denotes those forms of visual expression that depend for their effect on line and tone (disegno), not color (colorito). Graphic art also consists of drawn plans and layouts for interior and architectural designs

FINE ARTS- Architecture

is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art.

Contemporary Arts

Contemporary Arts- Definition

Contemporary art is art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II.

Contemporary Arts- Assemblage

Assemblage is a form of three-dimensional or two dimensional visual art whose compositions are formed from everyday objects which are 'found' by the artist

Contemporary Arts- Collage

Describes a composition made up of a variety of assorted materials - typically, printed matter like newspaper clippings, photographs, pieces of graphic or digital art, oddments of textile or fabric, and perhaps solid objects - all glued to a sheet of paper or board or canvas.

Contemporary Arts- Mixed

media

Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work .

Contemporary Arts-

Conceptual art

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (Sol LeWitt )

Contemporary Arts- Installation

incorporates a range of 2-D and 3-D materials to influence the way we experience or perceive a particular space. Installation artists are more concerned with the presentation of their message than with the means used to achieve it.

Contemporary Arts- Performance

art

takes as its medium the artist himself, the actual artwork being the artist's actions.

Contemporary Arts- Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor.

Contemporary Arts- Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program.

Contemporary Arts- Land

art

Land art, Earthworks (coined by Robert Smithson), or Earth art It is an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bed rock, boulders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water with introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.

Contemporary Arts- Graffiti

art

Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall, to buildings, public transport, property or other surface in a public place. Also called "Street Art", "Spraycan Art", "Subway Art" or "Aerosol Art

Decorative arts & crafts

Decorative Arts & Crafts- Definition

The decorative arts is traditionally a term for the design and manufacture of functional objects.The decorative arts are often categorized in opposition to the fine arts.

Decorative Arts & Crafts- ceramics

A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. The earliest ceramics were pottery

Decorative Arts & Crafts- Pottery

Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln which removes all water from the clay.

Decorative Arts & Crafts- mosaic

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

Decorative Arts & Crafts- Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length and those parallel to the width.

Decorative Arts & Crafts- Glass

art

Glass art is usually understood to refer to large modern works of art, typically one-off creations, which are substantially or wholly made in glass.

APPLIED ARTS

Applied art- Definition

Applied art is the application of design and aesthetics to objects of function and everyday use. There is considerable overlap between the field and that of the decorative arts; to some extent they are alternative terms.

Applied art- fashion

design

Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories.

Applied art- interior

design

Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an "effective setting for the range of human activities" that are to take place there.