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.