What is Art?
Art is a diverse range or product of human activity involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power and conceptual ideas. Art is a form of communication. It means whatever the artist intends it to mean is shaped by the materials, techniques, and forms it makes use of, as well as the ideas and feelings it creates in its viewers . Art is an act of expressing feelings, thoughts, and observations.
Art, also called visual art, a visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term art includes diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography and installation.
Types of Art -
There are 8 DIFFERENT types of artWORK -
Literature (including poetry, drama, story),
Visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture),
Graphic arts (painting, drawing, design, and other forms expressed on flat surfaces),
Plastic arts (sculpture, modeling),
Decorative arts (enamel work, furniture design, mosaic),
Performing arts (theatre, dance, music),
Music (as composition), and
Architecture (often including interior design).
Types of Art Styles -
Following are the main styles of Art -
Modernism
Impressionism
Abstract Art
Expressionism
Cubism
Surrealism
Abstract painting, modernism, impressionism and some lesser known forms of art such as surrealism and photorealism form a part of the vast Western form of art.
NASGJ Art Gallery has various types of online art. Explore the online art website.
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