What is the meaning of "art"

Art: generally speaking, creation occupies a certain plane or space and has visibility.

It is divided into many categories, generally including painting, sculpture, design and architecture. Some modern scholars also classify others as main categories, such as calligraphy and photography. The word "art" first appeared in Europe in the17th century, and some people think it officially appeared in the middle of18th century. Modern Japanese paraphrased Chinese characters were introduced to China around the May 4th Movement and began to be widely used.

The idea of art: let art integrate into life, into thinking, into soul and live in the present.

Extended data art mainly includes painting, sculpture, craft, architecture, calligraphy, seal cutting, design, new media and photography. Each category can be divided into several sub-categories according to the theme of performance and the theme used.

Painting is the most important art form in plastic arts. It refers to an art form that uses artistic language such as lines, colors and shapes to create a static visual image in a two-dimensional space (that is, a plane) and express the author's aesthetic feelings through artistic means such as modeling, color and composition. There are many kinds of paintings, which can be divided into different categories from different angles.

Geographically, painting can be divided into oriental painting and western painting; From the perspective of tool materials, painting can be divided into ink painting, oil painting, mural painting, printmaking, watercolor painting, gouache painting and so on. From the subject matter, painting can be divided into figure painting, landscape painting, still life painting, animal painting and so on. From the form of works, painting can be divided into murals, New Year pictures, comic books, cartoons, posters, oil paintings, blow paintings, illustrations and so on.

Different types of painting forms, due to their different historical traditions, have their own unique forms of expression and aesthetic characteristics. Chinese painting, also known as Chinese painting, has its own system and unique features in the world painting world, and is the mainstream of the oriental painting system. As far as tool materials are concerned, Chinese painting is painted on Xuan paper and silk with brush and ink. It pays attention to pen and ink, focusing on modeling with pen and ink.

In the way of expression, Chinese painting adopts scattered perspective method; In the composition of the picture, Chinese painting pays attention to poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, forming a unique beauty of form and content. Oil painting is the representative of western painting and the most influential painting in the world.

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