What are the categories of art?

1. Overview:

Art refers to social ideology that uses images to reflect reality but is more typical than reality, including literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, Dance, drama, film, folk art, etc.

Art is an important supplement to language. Just like when speaking, we use loudness to represent anger, laughter to represent happiness, and dancing with hands to represent anxiety or other emotions to convey to the other party. Therefore, every work of art should have its own unique appeal, and this appeal is the vitality of art.

2. Classification:

Art embodies and materializes certain aesthetic concepts, aesthetic tastes and aesthetic ideals of people. Regardless of the aesthetic creation or aesthetic acceptance of art, it needs to be felt and conveyed through the subject's certain senses and trigger the corresponding aesthetic experience. The aesthetic classification of art should mainly be based on the subject's aesthetic feelings and perception methods. According to this principle, art can be divided into four categories: plastic arts, performing arts, comprehensive arts and language arts.

(1) Plastic Arts

The so-called visual arts, that is, fine arts, refers to conveying and accepting aesthetic experiences through human visual senses (eyes) and corresponding aesthetic means. Art.

Among the various sense organs of human beings, vision is the most complex, sophisticated and sensitive, and it is also the main source of information for people. The richness and diversity of the external world are often perceived through visual activities. Perception. Therefore, the types and styles of visual art are also the most abundant, and even other arts often need to construct artistic images based on visual feelings.

1. Painting and Sculpture

Both painting and sculpture mainly use shape, color, quality, as well as point, line, surface, body and other modeling methods to form a certain artistic image. The former is expressed on a two-dimensional plane, while the latter is shaped in a three-dimensional space. Modeling is their most important aesthetic feature.

2. Architecture

Architecture is a symbolic visual art. It "generally can only use things in the external environment to imply the meaning transplanted into it." , "Create a work whose external shape can only imply meaning in a symbolic way"

3. Calligraphy

As a unique Chinese art, calligraphy is a sublimation from practicality came. It uses the particularity of the brush and rice paper to establish an isomorphic aesthetic relationship between the combined movement of the font shapes and human emotions through the stipple lines of Chinese characters, making each Chinese character seem to have life, reflecting the calligraphy The spiritual temperament and aesthetic pursuit of the home. "Chinese calligraphy is rhythmic nature, expressing a deeper conception of the image of life and becoming an art that reflects life."

4. Photography

Photography is A very modern visual art. Since the Frenchman Daguerre invented photography in 1839, photography has achieved comprehensive and rapid development in both technology and aesthetics. In particular, with the development of photography technology, human aesthetic vision has expanded to the vast world from space to the bottom of the sea, from micro to macro. Photography has become one of the main expression tools for people's visual aesthetics today and has become the "third eye" of mankind.

(2) Performing Arts

1. Music

Music conveys and accepts aesthetics through the auditory senses (ears) and corresponding aesthetic means. The art of experience.

Music expresses the emotional state of the subject through organized music. Its basic components include rhythm, melody, timbre, harmony, tone and intensity, etc., which constitute an extremely rich musical form. Beethoven once praised "music as a revelation more noble than all wisdom and philosophy", while Heine emphasized that "music may be the last artistic language".

2. Dance

Dance is an art form in which the human body performs continuous movements according to a certain rhythm. It originated from the productive labor of ancient humans and was combined with music and poetry. It is one of the earliest art forms in human history.

3. Quyi

Quyi is the collective name for various rap arts of the Chinese nation. It is formed by the long-term development and evolution of folk oral literature and singing art. It is a performing art category that uses "oral rap" to narrate stories, shape characters, express thoughts and feelings, and reflect social life. Most of them focus on narration, supplemented by endorsements, and have the characteristics of "one person with multiple roles (that is, one actor simulates multiple roles)", either speaking or singing; a few focus on endorsements, supplemented by narrative, and sing according to roles, with different folk arts. The varieties are closely related to the regional dialects in which they are produced, and folk art music is an important part of my country's national music. The number of actors during the performance is small, usually only one to two or three, and simple props are used. Performance forms include sitting and speaking, standing and speaking, sitting and singing, standing and singing, walking and singing, split singing, colorful singing, etc. There are three types of tunes: combined prose and verse, all prose and all verse. Musical styles include the "couplet style" of singing tunes, the "main tune style" of singing seven-character sentences or cross sentences, or a combination of both.

(3) Comprehensive art

The so-called comprehensive art refers to conveying and experiencing aesthetics through simultaneous activities of visual and auditory senses and aesthetic means that are suitable for them. The art of experience.

It mainly includes movies, TV, drama, etc.

1. Movies and TV

Movies and TV are both arts that combine audio and video and combine audio and video. Since the birth of film in 1895, in just over a hundred years, film's artistic creation methods and aesthetic expression capabilities have rapidly developed and enriched, which not only greatly expanded the aesthetic appeal of film art, but also formed the Its own aesthetic characteristics make it the most expressive art type in the 20th century. As a modern communication medium, television is also a young audio-visual art category. It penetrates into all aspects of human real life and has a huge impact on contemporary society.

2. Drama

Drama is a comprehensive art that is organically synthesized from literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance and other art forms. Actors play roles and perform life in public. An art form of conflict, development and evolution.

3. Opera

Drama is a traditional art of the Chinese nation and an enduring wonder in traditional culture. Chinese opera is composed of music, dance, literature, art, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts. Opera has a long history in China. In the long process of development, it has been continuously enriched, innovated and developed for more than 800 years. It pays attention to singing, acting, chanting and playing, is rich in dance, and is highly technical, forming a complete opera art system that is different from other dramas.

(4) Language Art

Language art mainly refers to literature. Literature uses written language (words) as a medium, unlike other arts that directly appeal to people's audio-visual senses. Whether literature is conveyed or received, it must be felt, experienced and constructed through the subject's imagination.