Forms of Creative Art

The scope of creative art is ever increasing, with new dimensions being explored everyday and people finding ways to monetise their skills. Traditionally limited to drawing, sketching, painting and pottery, the field has gone onto include photography, ceramics, sculpture etc.

Creative art can broadly be divided into:

• Visual art:
  • Architecture: it is the art and science of buildings and structures.
    • Ceramics: it is the art which makes use of ceramic materials, such as clay, etc to take forms such as pottery, tile, figurines, sculpture or table ware.
      • Conceptual art: it is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work takes precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
      • Drawing: it generally involves making an image on paper or paper-like stuff, with a variety of stuff such as graphite pencils, crayons (wax, water, and gel), ink pen, charcoals, pastels, markers, etc.
      • Painting: it is a diverse art form, it can be on paper, as a drawing, or painting a picture, as in a narrative, or as an abstract (abstract art), or as a composition.
      • Photography: it is an art form that captures in accordance to the creative vision of photographer. It stands different from photo journalism.

      Literature is literally “acquaintance with letters” as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary. The noun “literature” comes from the Latin word littera meaning “an individual written character (letter).” The term has generally come to identify a collection of writings, which in Western culture are mainly prose (both fiction and non-fiction), drama and poetry. In much, if 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.

      • Performing arts: It consists of music, dance, theatre, mime… all of which comprise of human performance as a central and essential part of the routine.
        • Dance: it generally refers to human body movements in order to express something. Therefore it is used for non-verbal communication by humans and many animals, in addition to being used for recreational purposes.
          • Music: music is an art whose medium is sound and silence happening at the right time, thus, to create melody. It often used for communication and recreational purposes. It is of two major kinds: vocal and instrumental.
            • Theatres: it is a branch of art that is concerned with acting out a story in front of an audience. It can be used to depict a real life situation or any hypothetical condition. It is the most popular art form nowadays.

            In addition to these there are many upcoming forms of art such as video gaming… the games use a mix of one or more types of these above art forms and really have made an impeccable impression in the minds of youngsters. Those being categorised as art, however, is still very debatable.