art

• Painting involves the application of paint, pigment, color, or other medium to a surface in order to present a picture of a subject
• Paintings may have surfaces such as walls, papers, canvas, wood, concrete, glass, cloth, or cardboard as their support
• Sculpture is the art of carving, modelling, casting, assembling, and constructing materials into figures or forms to achieve a three-dimensional piece
• Architecture is the art of designing and constructing buildings and other non-building structures for human use
• Plastic arts involve any art form that includes modelling or moulding in three dimensions, such as sculpture, ceramic pottery, collage, paper art, metalworking, glass blowing, wood-working, and contemporary disciplines like ice sculpture and sand art
• Performing arts include dance, music, theater, film, pop art, cuisine, and decorative arts
• Dance generally involves rhythmic body movements dependent on music, used for expression, social interaction, exercise, or presented in a spiritual or performance setting
• Music is the art of combining sounds of varying pitches to produce a coherent composition that is melodious, harmonious, intelligible, and expressive of ideas and emotions
• Theater involves re-creating a play or drama by actors to form a dramatic art form
• Film, or motion picture, is the art of moving images, a visual medium that tells stories and exposes reality through image and sound manipulation
• Gustatory art of cuisine involves skill in food preparation or food art
• Decorative arts produce visual objects for aesthetic function in houses, interior designs, offices, cars, and other structures
• Subject of art can be a person, object, scene, or event, representing anything in the artwork
• Representational arts depict recognizable real-world subjects, such as portraits, animals, plants, still life, country life, landscape, seascape, cityscape, events, religious items, and mythological, fictional, and cartoon characters
• Non-representational or non-objective arts do not depict easily recognizable subjects from the real world
• Non-representational or Non-objective arts are artworks that have no resemblance to any real subject or objects or anything from nature
• Abstraction in art indicates a departure from reality in the depiction of imagery
• Abstraction can be slight, partial, or complete, with the degree of abstractness increasing as the image has fewer similarities to its real-world counterpart
• Realism, also known as naturalism, is an attempt to represent things as they are with accuracy and precision, executed in a photographic session
• Surrealism attempts to represent subjects that result from dreams and fantasies, emphasizing the unconscious creative activity of the mind
• Cubism, popularized by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, emphasizes using basic geometric shapes in representing any subject
• Expressionism is a modern way of painting that expresses real-life subjects based on subjective perspective, focusing on emotional realism with disturbed brushstrokes and striking colors
• Impressionism, introduced by modernist artists from France, captures the fleeting effects of natural light and the real impression of passing moments
• Symbolism represents absolute reality using visible signs or objects in a direct manner, proposing that art itself is a deliberately artificial construct
• Pointillism, by George Seurat and Paul Signac, uses fine and distinct dots of color to create luminosity and the impression of a wide selection of other colors and blending
• Futurism, originating in Italy in the early 20th century, focuses on showing movement and speed, glorifying new life and can be considered as realism in the future
• Minimalism emphasizes the importance of shapes and space, using geometric shapes and reducing them to utmost simplicity
• Fauvism, led by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, uses bright and extreme colors to create an optimistic realism suggesting comfort, joy, and pleasure
• Dadaism, considered shocking realism, aims to shock and provoke viewers with paintings, writings, poetry, and art exhibitions
• Pure Abstractionism challenges viewers to look deeper, creating impressions and focusing on the intertwining elements and principles of art rather than the exact form of an object being represented
• Literary arts

  Written material such as poetry, novels, poems, drama, and others. It highly expressive in nature with the use of words and emotional images

   
• Digital arts

  Like graphic arts it has two-flat dimensional surface such as painting, drawing, photography, and other products of industry with the aid of computer and other electronic devices