About Art and Design
Visual arts
Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. The visual arts generally encompass areas such as painting , drawing , photography, printmaking , many design disciplines , as well the decorative arts like textile art and metalwork .
Design
In philosophy, the abstract noun design refers to purpose /purposefulness, or teleology . Design is thus contrasted with purposelessness, randomness , or lack of complexity.
Communication Design
A sub-discipline of design (sometimes referred to as Graphic Design) which is concerned with how print and non interactive digital pieces of work communicate with people. Examples of Communication Design include, but are not limited to posters, typography, logo design, and commercial advertising. The distinction between Communication Design and the visual arts is in the motivation: many visual arts are considered works of expression, and while Communication Design does have a certain amount of self-expression, much of the work is done for others.
Fine art
Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic It is also used to describe "high-quality" works from these fields.
"Fine art" differs from "useful art" in that it is purely aesthetic, whereas crafts are made to serve a practical purpose. Example: a sculpture of a teapot that does not actually work is fine art, whereas one that does work is craft.
New Media art
New Media art, or Media Art, is a generic term used to describe art related to, or created with, a technology invented or made widely available since the mid-20th Century New Media concerns are often derived from the telecommunications , mass media and digital modes of delivery the artworks involve, with practices ranging from conceptual art to virtual art, performance to installation . Such as Digital art
Digital art
Digital art is art created on a computer in digital (that is, binary ) form. The term is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modified by the computer; text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art, in themselves but can be part of a larger project, since the computer is merely the storage medium or tool which is used to create the work.
Digital art can be purely computer-generated , such as fractals , or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software, using either a mouse or graphics tablet . The availability and popularity of photograph manipulation software has spawned a vast and creative library of highly modified images, many bearing little or no hint of the original image. Using electronic versions of brushes, filters and enlargers, these "Neographers" produce images unattainable through conventional photographic tools. In addition, digital artists may manipulate scanned drawings, paintings, collages or lithographs, as well as using any of the above-mentioned techniques in combination. Artists also use many other sources of information and programmes to create their work.
The mainstream media uses a lot of digital art in advertisements, and computers are used extensively in film to produce special effects . Desktop publishing has had a huge impact on the publishing world, although that is more related to graphic design .
Nonetheless, digital art is yet to gain the acceptance and regard reserved for "serious" artforms such as sculpture , painting and drawing , perhaps due to the erroneous impression of many that "the computer does it for you". But this only is reasonable in a few cases as many 'digital artists' come from a traditional art background and are using computers in their practice to realise their ideas.
Their traditional background still forces them to take into account the basic principles of design such as balance, repetition, movement and other aspects that all forms of art bind to to some degree as well.
Digital artists have a wide range of above-mentioned techniques - arguably more extensive than those of other modes of art - at their disposal with which to creatively express themselves.
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