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THE TOPIC: �THE INFLUENCE OF ART

“Art is long and life is fleeting”

H. W. Longfellow

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The Oxford Advanced Learner`s Dictionary of Current English

"Art" is the creation or expression of what is beautiful, especially in visual form.

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The Arts

Fine Arts Performing arts

Literature Applied Arts

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Fine Arts

Fine arts – forms of art especially painting, drawing and sculpture, that are created to be beautiful rather than useful

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Drawing

  • It is a means of making an image, using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques

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Architecture

It is the art and science of designing buildings and structures.

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Painting

It is the act or art of using paint to produce pictures

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Sculpture

It is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials - typically stone - or marble, metal, glass, or wood.

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Graphics

are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain.

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New media art

It is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies.

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Painting

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Historical Painting

are depicting ‘historic scenes” They may include Saints or other Biblical, mythological heroes as well as real-life historical figures’

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Portraiture Painting

It can be a painting, a sculpture,

a photograph or any other representation of a person in which the face is the main focus.

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Genre painting

The pictures depicting situations and scenes of everyday life.

They typically include domestic settings, mealtimes, celebrations, peasant scenes, markets, and other street scenes. The scene is presented in a non-idealized way.

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Landscape Painting

describe a scenic view, for example: meadows, hills, mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, forests, coastal views and seascapes.

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Seascape Painting

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Still-life Painting

It is a specific genre of painting which includes the objects (flowers, kitchen utensils, household objects) laid out specifically by the artist.

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Battle painting

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Mural Painting (Fresco)

It is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.

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Icon Painting

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Animal Painting

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Cityscape Painting

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Leonardo da Vinci, La Gioconda, 1517