Contemporary Arts

Visual and Performing Arts

Art is an output of creative expression. A product of human creativity and skill to express oneself represented through different forms and disciplines.

Visual Arts

Describing a wide array of artistic disciplines that are appreciated primarily through sight.

Fine Arts

Created primarily for their appearance.

it includes artworks from emerging technology and artistic innovations.

Decorative Arts

Both aesthetically pleasing and functional.

Contemporary Art Forms

New & unusual art forms could not be easily categorized between the fine arts and the decorative arts.

The recently conceived art styles and techniques which are avant-garde or experimental in nature.

Performing Arts

The use of the artist’s voice and/or body movements to communicate artistic expression.

Meant to be enacted in front of a live audience.

Music

Culturally universal form of art.

◦ The manipulation of sound and

silence.

◦ Blends with different elements:

pitch, rhythm, dynamics,

timbre, and texture to create

sound.

Art Music

Stemmed from Western Classical music

◦ Presented and preserved through written musical notations developed in Europe

Popular Music

Accessible and commercially available to the public

◦ Played or disseminated through different mass media outlets: radios, televisions, and the internet.

Traditional Music

Communally and culturally based but diverse.

◦ Preserved by passing it from one generation to another through oral communication and actual performance.

Theater

Often involves integrating and combining the visual and performing arts.

A fine art where actors perform real or imagined experiences in front of a live audience.

Use of gestures,music, song, dance, and visual arts to help communicate the story in front of an audience.

Dance

A regulated and deliberated order of body movements that have aesthetic value and are often

performed accompanied by music.

Recognition

Fame and fortune

Livelihood

To be critically acclaimed

Worship

To glorify the creator, religious structures

Impluse

Passion and Happiness

Self expression

When ideas and emotions including reflection of personality and experiences are not adequately conveyed through words alone.

Feldman Method

A systematic approach to critiquing art

By Edmund Feldman

Prof at Georgia University

Four steps

Description

The information about the artwork

Do not use value statements or adjectives to describe the artwork.

Analysis

Break down the different elements and principles used, and how they were used in the artwork.

Interpretation

Incorporates the items observed from the description and analysis and derive meaning from it.

Evaluation

Pass value and judgment on the artwork based on the first three steps

Opinion based on logical and educated information

Broadest aspect technique

try to show many sides of an object

Multiple Focal Points

effort to represent the different members of society

Highly expressive

being more emphatic, spontaneous, and emotional

Polychromatic

the love for color and decorative arts and crafts

Maximalism

inclination to fill a space with forms and ornamentation

Multifunctional

works with various uses strengthens the sense of community

Rhythmic Patterns

works with various uses strengthens the sense of community