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Fine Arts
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.
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.
Printmaking is concerned with the production of images by varying methods of replication onto paper, parchment, fabric or other supports.
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.
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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
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
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
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.
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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 .
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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 )
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.
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takes as its medium the artist himself, the actual artwork being the artist's actions.
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.
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.
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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.
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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
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. The earliest ceramics were 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.
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
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.
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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
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Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories.
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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.