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Fine Art: Definition & Meaning===The term "fine art" refers to an art form practised mainly for its aesthetic value and its beauty ("art for art's sake") rather than its functional value. Fine art is rooted in drawing and design-based works such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture. It is often contrasted with "applied art" and "crafts" which are both traditionally seen as utilitarian activi...
Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that was most popular during 1890–1910. English uses the French name "Art Nouveau" ("new art"), but the style has many different names in other countries. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and ...
A nation can be known through its arts. The plurality of origins, cultures and races provided skills, ability, competence and, above all, creativity to the Brazilian people .In the visual arts, from Baroque to Graffite, recognized talents emerged to the world:* Animation* Architecture* Handicraft* Folk art* Pottery* Charge* Movie theater* Dance* Drawing* Design* Graphic design* Sculpture* Photo...
The Photo-Secession was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular. A group of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz and F. Holland Day in the early 1900s, held the then controversial viewpoint that what was significant about a photograph was not what was in front of the camera but the manipulation of the image ...