Arts-

something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or

that expresses important ideas or feeling

Performing arts are art forms in which artists use their body, voice, or objects to convey
artistic expressionas opposed to visual arts, in which artists use paint/canvas or various materials
to create physical art objects. Performing arts include a variety of disciplines but all are intended to
be performed in front of a live audience
Different Types of Arts

Theatre -

is the branch of performing arts; concerned with acting out stories in front of an
audience, using a combination of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle.Any one or
more of these elements is performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style of
plays. Theatre takes such forms as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian
dance,kabuki, mummers' plays, improvisational theatre, stand-up comedy, pantomime, and nonconventional or contemporary forms likepostmodern theatre, postdramatic theatre, or performance
art .

Dance -

(from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human
movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social , spiritual
or performance setting.

Visual Art
Representational- artwork aims to represent actual objects or subjects
from reality. Subcategories under representational art include Realism,
Impressionism, Idealism, and Stylization.

Abstract Art
The often misunderstood type of art known as abstraction aims to take
subjects from reality but present them in way that is different from the way they
are viewed in our reality.

Non-Objective Art
The third type of art is often mistaken for Abstract art although it
is entirely different from it. Non-Objective art takes nothing from
reality.

Two Dimensional arts

Two-dimensional art consists of paintings, drawings, prints, and
photographs, which differ from each other primarily in the technique
of their execution

Three Dimensional arts

We see a three-dimensional work of art in terms of its height, width, and depth. The
term form is used to describe any three-dimensional work. Three-dimensional forms
can be geometric or organic. They also have volume (the amount of space occupied
by the form) and mass (the impression that the volume is solid and occupies space).
The surface of the form can be described in terms of its texture. Artists can use the
language of three-dimensional art to express many ideas and emotions. Mret
Oppenheim playfully tests our assumptions about everyday objects with a furry
teacup and saucer. On a much larger scale, the creators of the Colossal Olmec
Heads express the power of their rulers or ancestors, while the fourteenth-century
sculptor of Vesperbild communicates the terrible sorrow of Mary as she holds the
lifeless form of Jesus.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

FORM
FORM IN RELIEF AND IN THE ROUND
VOLUME
MASS
TEXTURE

5 Importance of Arts in Society

1. They are languages that all people speak that cut across racial, cultural,
social, educational, and economic barriers and enhance cultural appreciation
and awareness.
2. They provide opportunities for self-expression, bringing the inner world
into the outer world of concrete reality.
3. They develop both independence and collaboration.

4. They make it possible to use personal strengths in meaningful ways and to

bridge into understanding sometimes difficult abstractions through these
strengths.
5. They improve academic achievement -- enhancing test scores, attitudes,
social skills, critical and creative thinking.
*Collaboration - the action of working with someone to produce or create something.