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What is the impact of art on society? Art acts as a collective memory of society.
Through expressive outlets such as paintings, sculptures, music, literature and other art forms, artists preserve life as we know it even better than historical fact-based records.
Art expresses how it felt to exist in a particular time..
The seven elements of art are line, shape, space, value, form, texture, and color.
These elements are the building blocks, or ingredients, of art.
A line is a mark made on a surface.
A shape is a flat area of enclosed space..
The seven different art forms are Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Architecture, Theater, Film, and Music.
However, back in the day, the seven different art forms were called the Liberal Arts, consisting of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music..
Art can communicate information, shape our everyday lives, make a social statement and be enjoyed for aesthetic beauty..
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and its resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas..
Three-dimensional art is defined as art with all the dimensions of height, width, and depth.
Unlike 2D art, it occupies greater physical space and can be viewed and interpreted from all sides and angles.
3) D artists use various materials manipulated into objects, characters, and scenes to produce these artworks..
There are many forms that three-dimensional art can take.
The most common found throughout history are sculpture, relief carvings, and ornamentation, like masks, mantles, and headdresses..
Art history – the study of art from across the world, and from the ancient to the present day – covers virtually every aspect of human history and experience.
This is because it looks at works of art not just as objects, but as a way of understanding the world, and the societies in which they were created..
'” At least 45,500 years ago, a human hand had painted the pigs in ochre, making them the oldest known examples of figurative art by at least several thousand years—and, by some standards, the oldest artwork in the world (1)..
Internal Assessment for Exhibition
Internal Assessment ( IA) is the part of the course assessed by the teacher, in our case for Visual Arts, Part 3, The Exhibition.
Although you are marking the student work you will be in turn be moderated externally..
Putting the horizon line 1/3 of the way from the top or 1/3 of the way from the bottom creates a more attractive composition.
This is the rule of thirds in action.
And of course, using the rule on art with vertical elements instead of horizontal ones works just as well..
The power of triptych art lies in its ability to work as a coherent piece, as well as three separate works of art.
One reason the triptych is generally more popular than, say a diptych (formed of two parts) or a quadriptych (formed of four parts) is the power of the number three..
The social value of art
Another relevant element of art value is societal meaning.
Art indeed is a means of communication, as it passes ideas, values, feelings, concepts, which might be received differently by each observer but still vehiculate ideas concerning society and human condition..
Neanderthals – not modern humans – were first artists on Earth, experts claim.
More than 65,000 years ago, a Neanderthal reached out and made strokes in red ochre on the wall of a cave, and in doing so, became the first known artist on Earth, scientists claim..
There are countless reasons that motivate the creation of art; some of them are making our surroundings more beautiful; creating records of a specific time, place, person or object; and expressing and communicating ideas..