What do you mean by the Eight Great Arts?

1, literature:

Literature is the art of language and writing, and it is often an important expression of culture. It expresses the heart and reproduces the social life of a certain period and region in different forms.

2. Painting:

Painting is the art of copying nature by hand on a two-dimensional plane. In medieval Europe, painting was often called "the art of monkeys", because just as monkeys liked to imitate human activities, painting also imitated scenes.

Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting was, the higher the technology was. But in the 20th century, with the appearance and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to express the painter's subjective self. When a connoisseur sees a painting, he sometimes can't tell what it is, but he can definitely tell who painted it.

3. Music:

Broadly speaking, music is any kind of artistic, pleasant, sacred or other arranged sound. The definition of so-called music is still controversial, but it can usually be interpreted as a series of organizations with temporality to sound and silence, including the rhythm, melody and harmony of different scales.

4. Dance:

Dance is a kind of performing art, and it is the art of expressing human movement in three-dimensional space with body as the language. Generally accompanied by music, rhythmic movements are the main means of expression. It usually uses music and other props. Dance itself has multiple social meanings and functions, including sports, socialization, courtship, sacrifice, etiquette and so on.

5. Sculpture:

Sculpture is a plastic art. Sculpture, also known as sculpture, is the general name of three creative methods: carving, carving and plastic. It refers to the art of using all kinds of plastic or hard materials that can be carved and carved to create a visible and tangible artistic image with a certain space to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetic feelings, feelings and ideals.

6. Drama:

Drama refers to the general name of stage performance art that achieves narrative purpose in the form of language, action, dance, music and puppet. The concept of drama in literature refers to the script created for drama performance, that is, the script. There are various forms of theatrical performances, including drama, opera, ballet, musical, puppet show and so on.

7. Architecture:

Architectural art refers to the use of the unique artistic language of architectural art, in accordance with the law of beauty, so that the architectural image has cultural and aesthetic value, symbolic and formal beauty, reflecting nationality and sense of the times. According to its functional characteristics, architectural art can be divided into memorial buildings, sexual buildings, palaces and tombs, religious buildings, residential buildings, garden buildings and production buildings.

8. Movies:

Film is a kind of comprehensive art, and the shot images are continuously projected on the screen with strong light, which looks like real moving images. When people talk about the eight great arts, most of them focus on the origin of movies, that is, how movies changed from commercial behavior to the eighth among the eight great arts. There is a saying that TV plays aggregate the characteristics of the first seven arts, so they become the eighth art.