Understanding Visual Arts and Their Forms
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Visual Arts
Visual Arts are forms of art that focus on the creation of works
which are mainly visual by nature, such as painting, photography,
printing and cinema. Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as the
sculpture and architecture are called plastic arts. Many disciplines
artistic (performing arts, language arts, textile arts, and culinary arts)
they present aspects of the visual arts, so these definitions are not
strict.
The current use of the term 'visual arts' includes both Fine Arts and
craftsmanship, but this has not always been the case. Before the Arts movement
and Crafts in the United Kingdom and other places in the twentieth century, 'visual artist' is
referred to the person who works in Fine Arts (such as painting, sculpture and
impression) and not in crafts or applied arts disciplines. The difference
was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts movement who valued the
vernacular art forms as well as high art forms. The
the movement contrasted with the modernists who sought to retain the arts
superiors of the masses keeping them esoteric. The art schools
they distinguish the Fine Arts from craftsmanship in such a way that a craftsman could
not to be considered an artist.
Some general concepts
What is art?
Art is the expression of the human being with an aesthetic purpose.
communicative; for this, it requires applying its skills and imagination in
any activity or product; art nourishes the soul of human beings and provides
allows to express ideas, values, emotions, and a personal vision of the world,
however, to achieve this, human beings require various resources such as
the plastics, the linguistic, the sound or the mixed, forming with that their
own culture.
What are the Visual Arts?
The concept of Visual Arts emerged at the end of World War II, when the
European artists who had emigrated to New York establish a production.
artistic that is related to the expressive and formal freedom fostered by the
avant-gardes of the late 19th century, to which was added the crucial push that
they meant the proposals of Marcel Duchamp.
But it is around 1980 when the term 'Visual Arts' starts to
to predominate in the vocabulary, as it is more suitable for art
contemporary that the designation 'Visual Arts'.
Visual Arts encompass the various modalities of art whose
products are mainly visual in nature, such as drawing, painting and
printmaking; and also more modern arts such as photography, film, video and
infographics. This concept also includes what are called applied arts.
(graphic design, industrial design, fashion design, decoration), as well as the
crafts and artistic trades (ceramics, pottery, etc.).
Visual Arts encompass the different modalities of art whose
products are mainly visual nature, such as drawings, painting and
engraving; also the most modern arts such as photography, cinema, video and
infographic. This concept includes the so-called applied arts (design
graphic, industrial design, fashion design, decoration), as well as crafts
and artistic trades (ceramics, pottery, etc.).
Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and the
architecture, are included within what are called the plastic arts, but not in
visual arts.
Many disciplines considered artistic, such as the performing arts, possess
also dimensions shared with the Visual Arts, so these
definitions are not strict.
What is an image?
The image (from the Latin imago) is a visual representation that manifests.
visual appearance of a real or imaginary object. Although the term is usually
understood as a synonym for visual representation, it also applies as
extension for other types of perception, such as auditory, olfactory images,
tactile, kinesthetic, etc.
The images that the person does not know and lives internally are called
mental images, while they are designated as created images (or else
as reproduced images, as the case may be, those that visually represent
an object through different techniques: drawing, design, painting, photography,
video, etc.