7 examples to understand or what visual arts are

Visual arts are the artistic modalities in which the appreciation of the work occurs, especially, by meio da visão.

It is through observation that the manifestations of visual arts can be understood, analyzed and interpreted.

Assim, we have genres such as painting, sculpture, engraving, cinema, photography, architecture and design.

1. Painting: Starry Noite (1889), by Van Gogh

A painting is perhaps or type of visual art more consecrated non-Ocidente.

Or the use of inks on canvas was - and continues to be - a technique carried out in such a way as to express the most varied emotions and thoughts of humanity.

As painted images make it possible for the observer to have a visual impact through colors, textures and shapes.

As an example of painting, let us trace a conheque work Starry Noite, by Dutch Vincent van Gogh.

Conceived in 1889, the canvas displays a night landscape with an immense ceu cheio of spirals, in a cypress in the format of a fire over the sky.

A dinner shows a view of the room in which Van Gogh was admitted to the hospital, not the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence psychiatric hospital.

Through the vigorous brushstrokes and the spiral shapes, we can perceive the confusion and the turbulence of emotions by the quais or passava artist.

2. Photography: Glass Tears (1932), by Man Ray

A photograph is a vertente of the visual arts that arose in the first goal of the XIX century. At the beginning it was not considered art, and sim a scientific method of image reproduction.

In the meantime, the logo is perceived to have enormous inventiveness and has become seen as art as well.

As its fruition (ou seja, its appreciation) is given from vision, it was framed as visual art.

A great artist who toured the technique of Man Ray. Or North-American uses photography to create surrealist works that will manage to revolutionize the way it was approached.

Uma dessas photographs é Glass Tears - with a translation of Tears of glass - feita in 1932.

To image face a connection with a cinematographic narrative, presenting a feminine personage with heavy tears not face. You olhos, marked com cios, observe something from the top, or what face or observer will wonder about the causes of such anguish.

3. Cinema: O Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), by Robert Wiene

Or cinema is an artistic language that arises from photography. Also, also visual art, you can see an essential sense to be able to enjoy the cinematographic experience.

It emerged from the end of the XIX century with silent films that were short, less than one minute.

As a tempo, or cinema was transforming, and now we can watch 3D films, a technique that allows us to create an illusion that the audience is within the narrative.

An example of an important work for a historia do cinema é O Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, from the 1920s.

Directed by Robert Wiene, the film is a classic of German expressionism and presents a history of mystery, with contrasting and theatrical aesthetics.

We see an exaggerated atuação, angular settings and a ghostly atmosphere, which reveal the purposes of expressionist movement, which was to portray anguish and inadequacy in a context between the two wars world.

4. Sculpture: Baby (2020), by Ron Muek

A sculpture is a type of art that goes back to prehistoric age, when it was produced statues of marble, ossos, stones and other materials.

Various ancient civilizations also use this language to consolidate their views of the world, creating mythological and historical dinners.

Despite the emergence of new artistic techniques, sculpture endures as an important language and foi being transformed. This art in which the vision is essential for the understanding of the work and, at the same time, its sense, or else it can also be stimulated.

A contemporary artist who has an impressive work by Australian Ron Mueck.

To work Baby (2000) is an example of a sculpture that places us in front of a huge newborn baby, raised by maneira hyper-realistic, which fears the power to impact the observer and cause various reflections on the body grandeur gives life.

5. Gravure: Rurais Workersby J. Borges

It is called gravure, a group of techniques that were produced using rigid structures as support or support.

Um desses older and known methods are woodcutTo whom the artist faces deep cuts on a wooden plate (on a matrix), he passes a fine layer of ink and prints this matrix on a paper.

A technique is widely used in Northeast Brazil, illustrating string literature with contrasting images.

A great Brazilian woodcutter and J. Borges. His works trace themes of the sertão, showing or povo, costumes and human types, such as Rural workers.

6. Architecture: Vidro House (50s), Lina Bo Bardi

Architecture is a kind of fine art not space through constructions. São edificações created to support people and offer support for various human activities.

In the meantime, to be considered art it must have a plastic and aesthetic concern, greatly appreciated by meio da visualidade, by essa vertente and considered visual art.

As an example of architectural work, let us trace Vidro House, gives the renowned architect Lina Bo Bardi. This house was built in the 50s and is recognized as an emblematic work of modern architecture in Brazil, located in São Paulo.

7. Design: Chá Infuser (1924), by Marianne Brandt

Or design refers to the creation of objects, generally utilitarian. Also, this type of art mixes forms, aesthetics and functionality in a product, which is normally produced in series, on an industrial scale.

In the 20's, the Escola Bauhaus existed, an institution in Germany that was dedicated to working on various types of art, between art and design.

A woman from the Bauhaus who has a highlight not design was Marianne Brandt. She was responsible for the breeding of um Chá infuser, born in 1924, that had an innovative design, it was a modernist style that still prevailed at the time.

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