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The Arts

The arts are about creating objects, images, and works that communicate a message or emotion to an audience. It might be putting on a play for a large audience, or writing a poem that someone will read on their own. The relationship between the artist and their audience is the space where a work of art is interpreted and responded to. Click Here for More

Architecture

King Ludwig's Castle, Bavaria
King Ludwig's
Castle, Bavaria

Architecture is the art and science of designing the built environment; including cities, buildings, interiors, landscape, furniture, objects, etc. It is said to rest on three principles: beauty, firmness and utility; balancing these three elements, with no one overpowering the others. Click Here for More

Art (Visual Art)

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a
Pearl Earring

Vermeer, Jan

From pictures on the wall to statues in public spaces to jewellery, we are surrounded by the visual arts. People have been using visual art for centuries to beautify their lives, give pleasure and inspiration, and for personal expression. Click Here for More See also: Gallery of Fine Art

Artists

Norman Rockwell - Triple Self Portrait
Norman Rockwell
Triple Self Portrait
Rockwell, Norman

An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. The term may be used in connection with any branch of the arts -- for example music, literature, and theater -- but more commonly refers to an individual who practises the visual arts or fine arts. Click Here for More

Dance

Tango
Tango
Zolan, Richard Judson

Dance is movement with no purpose aside from the communication of an aesthetic idea, enjoyment of music, and/or the achievement of spiritual-mystical mind-body states. It is often, though not always, rhythmic or accompanied by music. Click Here for More

Fashion

Millinery Modes
Millinery Modes

Fashion describes a current (constantly changing) trend, chosen for a frivolous rather than logical or intellectual reason. Although it is most often used in the context of clothes and appearance, fashion can apply to music, art, politics and even mathematics and the choice of programming techniques. Click Here for More

Graphic Design

Carnaval de Venise
Carnaval de Venise
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Graphic design is the applied art of designing for print and for digital media. Graphic design as a practice can be traced back to the origin of the written word, but only in the late 19th century did it become identified as a separate entity. Click Here for More

Literature

Lord Of The Flies
Lord Of The Flies

Literature is a body of written (or oral) works, such as novels, poems, or plays, that use words to stimulate the imagination and confront the reader with a unique vision of life. A work of literature is a creative, universal form of expression that addresses the emotional, spiritual, or intellectual concerns of humanity. Click Here for More

Movies

Casablanca
Casablanca

Initially, moving pictures meant only the movement that is perceived when a string of celluloid-recorded images are projected at a rate of about 16 or more frames per second (see persistence of vision). Today, motion pictures (or "*movies*") are an art form, as well as one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Click Here for More

Music

Instruments Symphony Orchestra
Instruments
Symphony Orchestra

Music is the art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, harmony, form. Click Here for More

Photography

Solitude
Solitude
Winston

Photography is the technique of recording, by chemical or mechanical means, a permanent image on a layer of material sensitive to light exposure. The understanding that prevails today assumes the use of a camera or camera obscura as the image forming device, and of photographic film as the recording medium, but it doesn't have to be the case. Click Here for More

Theater

Theatre Moulin Rouge
Theatre
Moulin Rouge

Theater is the art of telling a story or communicating an idea through performance. Long before there was a written language, history and legends were handed down orally; people memorized and performed the stories, poems, songs and dances of their culture. Click Here for More

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