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Visual Arts-As Old as Civilization

Monday, July 19th, 2010

All art is a communication! The artist is creating his/her vision via any artistic outlet such as drawing, painting, sculptures, photography, graphic design or filmmaking etc.


It’s any art we see! The natural landscape is a powerful tool artists have used throughout time. We seem to want to recreate what we are looking at and at the same time change it to put our own nuances and character into it.

Art is not limited to drawing, painting, sculptures etc. There are the living visual arts such as the painstaking shaping of the Bonsai tree or creating the next beautiful hybrid rose. We started with the incredibly gorgeous vintage rose and now we literally have hundreds of different kinds of roses in various sizes, colors and fragrance.

Dancing, figure skating, gymnastics, ballet, and even acting are also considered visual art forms.

You are basically taking something that has been done before, or a piece of life, and are making it new by changing or adding your own character to the piece. That’s all imagination is!

Just in the 20th century alone we have created new forms of art such as art nouveau, pop art, ethnic art to name a few. The subject of art is so vast that there is literally no ceiling to creativity and that is what makes this subject so incredibly interesting.

For as long as man exists, we will find a way to create new and interesting things to look at. It is after all in our nature to do so!

Visual Arts

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

In prehistoric times men had no other way to express themselves other than drawing on walls or stones. It is earliest form of art, the way in which the early artist wanted to portray what he wanted to display. In literary terms art is nothing but communication, the artists’ recreation of his vision.

However, art is not limited to drawing, painting, sculpture, etc. There are living visual arts, such as a bonsai tree or an extravagant hybrid rose. Visual arts are a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature. Nowadays even dancing, figure skating, gymnastics, ballet etc. are considered to be a part of visual art. Simply put, when you are doing something artistic, or performing an art, you are basically taking something that has been done before and modifying it by changing or adding your own character to the piece.