THE TOPIC: �THE INFLUENCE OF ART
“Art is long and life is fleeting”
H. W. Longfellow
The Oxford Advanced Learner`s Dictionary of Current English
"Art" is the creation or expression of what is beautiful, especially in visual form.
The Arts
Fine Arts Performing arts
Literature Applied Arts
Fine Arts
Fine arts – forms of art especially painting, drawing and sculpture, that are created to be beautiful rather than useful
Drawing
Architecture
It is the art and science of designing buildings and structures.
Painting
It is the act or art of using paint to produce pictures
Sculpture
It is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials - typically stone - or marble, metal, glass, or wood.
Graphics
are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain.
New media art
It is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies.
Painting
Historical Painting
are depicting ‘historic scenes” They may include Saints or other Biblical, mythological heroes as well as real-life historical figures’
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.
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.
Landscape Painting
describe a scenic view, for example: meadows, hills, mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, forests, coastal views and seascapes.
Seascape Painting
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.
Battle painting
Mural Painting (Fresco)
It is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.
Icon Painting
Animal Painting
Cityscape Painting
Leonardo da Vinci, La Gioconda, 1517