What exactly is art?

There is no accepted definition of art so far. Art refers to a social ideology that reflects reality with images but is more typical than reality, including literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, drama, movies, folk art and so on.

Art is an important supplementary means of language, just like in a speech, we will use loud voices to represent anger, laughter to represent happiness, and dance to represent anxiety or other feelings to convey to each other. Therefore, every work of art should have its own unique appeal, which is the vitality of art.

Art type

Art embodies and materializes people's certain aesthetic concepts, tastes and ideals. Both aesthetic creation and aesthetic acceptance of art need to be felt and conveyed through some senses of the subject, and the corresponding aesthetic experience will be triggered. The aesthetic classification of art should be mainly based on the aesthetic feeling and perceptual way of the subject. According to this principle, art can be divided into plastic arts, performing arts, comprehensive arts and language arts.

1, plastic arts

The so-called visual art is art, which refers to the art of conveying and accepting aesthetic experience through human visual senses (eyes) and corresponding aesthetic means.

Among all kinds of sensory organs, vision is the most complex, delicate and sensitive, and it is also the main source of information. People often perceive the richness and diversity of the external world through visual activities. Therefore, the types and styles of visual arts are also the richest, and even other arts often need to construct artistic images based on visual feelings.

Humans have been exploring visual modeling since ancient times, leaving behind the earliest paintings and sculptures. With the progress of human civilization, there are more and more kinds and means of art that take vision as the aesthetic way. Painting, sculpture, architecture, arts and crafts, calligraphy and photography are the most typical visual arts.

Intuition is the most basic aesthetic feature of visual art, and the direct perception of vision is intuitive shape, color (or tone), texture (texture or volume) and their relationships. Therefore, in visual arts, both plane (painting, calligraphy, photography) and three-dimensional (sculpture, architecture) modeling attach great importance to the application of the law of formal beauty. Diversity, unity, symmetry, balance, contrast, harmony and the relationship between the picture and the bottom are all important factors that constitute the aesthetic characteristics of visual art. In visual arts, form and content, image and meaning are expressed in various ways, which constitute the unparalleled aesthetic charm of visual arts. For example, based on the high generalization ability of life movement changes and different textures or senses, lines can produce direct aesthetic interest, and different lines can give people different aesthetic feelings. Therefore, lines not only become the main language element of painting, but also become an important language of other visual arts. Color has the function of affecting people's emotions, and it is also the main aesthetic element of visual art. Different color configurations or tones can make people have different emotional tendencies, obtain visual pleasure and realize their expressive significance.

2. Performing arts

Performing arts is an art that shapes images, conveys emotions and emotions through people's singing, performance or people's actions and expressions, thus expressing life. Performing arts usually include dance, music, drama, folk art, acrobatics, magic and so on. The representative categories are usually music and dance. Sometimes acrobatics, cross talk and magic are also included in the performing arts.

3. Comprehensive art

The so-called comprehensive art refers to the art of conveying and feeling aesthetic experience through the simultaneous activities of visual and auditory senses and corresponding aesthetic means. Mainly including movies, television, drama and so on.

4. Language arts

Language art mainly refers to literature. Literature takes written language (words) as the medium, unlike other arts, which directly appeal to people's audio-visual senses. Whether it is the transmission or acceptance of literature, we need to feel, experience and construct aesthetic images through subjective imagination.

As a huge art category, literature usually includes different genres such as poetry, prose and novel. Among them, poetry is the earliest literary genre. With its rhythmic language, it directly hits people's emotions and creates an emotional world that transcends reality and exists only in people's hearts. On the other hand, prose is a literary genre, which freely expresses the subject's thoughts and feelings and reveals social significance by describing certain events. It has the characteristics of broad subject matter and bold language, and its aesthetic characteristics lie in the freedom and flexibility of artistic expression and the diversity of styles. The novel mainly tells stories and depicts characters, and depicts characters in many ways through a complete story.

In short, the aesthetic characteristics of literature are mainly manifested in four aspects: image, integrity, indirectness and profundity.

5. Kistler art

Strange stones are natural works of art and the art of discovery. Traditional strange stones pay attention to the aesthetic standards of wrinkle, thinness, leakage and transparency, and their ornamental realm is: considerable, swimable and livable. Ancient famous stones are not only ornamental, but also historical and cultural. There are many kinds of modern strange stones, including Gobi agate stone, Changjiang stone, giant fossil and Mohr stone. Modern stone aesthetics pays attention to form, quality, color and rhyme. If a pictographic stone is good in texture and color, and it is not incomplete, it is a good stone without artificial processing. A stone that can shock people is a good stone. The more concrete the pictographic stone, the more verve it has and the higher its value.