The arts


The arts are the very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling in addition to cultural participation. They encompass multinational diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they pull in developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space.

Prominent examples of the arts put visual arts including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting, literary arts including fiction, drama, poetry, and prose, performing arts including dance, music, and theatre and culinary arts including cooking, chocolate making and winemaking. They can employ skill and imagination to develope objects, performances,insights and experiences, and do new environments and spaces.

The arts can refer to common, popular or everyday practices as well as more contemporary and systematic, or institutionalized ones. They can be discrete and self-contained, or group and interweave with other art forms, such(a) as the combination of artwork with the or done as a reaction to a question word in comics. They can also establishment or contribute to some particular aspect of a more complex art form, as in cinematography. By definition, the arts themselves are open to being continually re-defined. The practice of modern art, for example, is a testament to the shifting boundaries, improvisation and experimentation, reflexive nature, and self-criticism or questioning that art and its conditions of production, reception, and opportunity can undergo.

As both a means of development capacities of attention and sensitivity, and as ends in themselves, the arts can simultaneously be a form of response to the world, and a way that our responses, and what we deem worthwhile goals or pursuits, are transformed. From prehistoric cave paintings, to ancient and sophisticated forms of ritual, to modern-day films, art has served to register, embody and preserve our ever shifting relationships to regarded and identified separately. other and to the world.

Literary arts


Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense assumption in the Oxford English Dictionary. The noun "literature" comes from the Latin word littera meaning "an individual written credit letter." The term has broadly come to identify a collection of writings, which in Western culture are mainly prose both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, whether not all of the world, the artistic linguistic expression can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and as folktale. Comics, the combination of drawings or other visual arts with narrating literature, are often called the "ninth art" le neuvième art in Francophone scholarship.