CONTEMPORARY ARTS

VISUAL ARTS

Fine Arts. ==A visual Art== Considered to have been ==created primarily for aesthetic== and intellectual purposes and ==judged for its beauty and meaningfulness== specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics and architecture.

Fine Art ==involves different art styles== and the ==process== of creating something unique which appeals to our ==visual or auditory senses.==

When did Fine Arts Start?

According to historians, can be traced back to ==18th Century==

Early Modern period in Western Art
Sooner to the Renaissance art in Italy
Later throughout the rest pf Europe.

Fine art refers to an art form practiced mainly for its aesthetic value and beauty (==art for art’s sake==) rather than its functional value.

==Painting==. Is the ==practice of applying paint==, pigment color or other medium ==to a solid surface==.

$Architecture$ . It is $both the process and the product of sketching$ , conceiving, planning, designing, and $constructing buildings or other structures.$

$Sculpture$ . Is the $3D art work$ which is physically presented in the dimensions of $height, width and depth$ . One of the plastic arts.

Sculpture is divided into two class: Free standing sculpture & Relief

$Free Standing Sculpture.$ aka as in the round, are $sculptures that are raised independently$ in its given space; can be $observed in all POVs.$

Relief. sculptures that are $raised from the background.$ $Depending on the figure’s distance$ from the background.

2 kinds of Relief: Bas-relief & high reliefs

$Bas-relief/low relief.$ Are reliefs that are $slightly protruding$ from their background.

$High relief.$ Are reliefs that are $prominently raised against their background$ , giving the sculpture more dimensionality.

“Art imitates the objects and events of ordinary life.” - Plato

“Art is form of imitation” - Aristotle He defined imitation as the representation of nature in the medium of human actions.