Fine arts

The term fine arts was popularized in the 17th century to refer to the main arts and good use of technique. The first book known to classify them is Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe (The Fine Arts, 1746) by Charles Batteux, who sought to unify the numerous theories about beauty and taste that existed at that time. Batteux originally included dance, sculpture, music, painting and poetry in the fine arts; and eloquence was added later.

Over time, the list would change as different authors added or removed arts to this list (eloquence removed). In 1911, Ricciotto Canudo is the first film theorist to describe this as the seventh art, in his essay & # 34; Manifesto of the Seven Arts & # 34;, which was published in 1914.

Also due to the historical evolution of the term, it is common for the use of fine arts to be associated, in educational institutions and in fine arts museums, almost exclusively with plastic arts or visual arts. In this sense, the word art is also often synonymous with visual arts, when used in terms such as art gallery.

Classic Division

The arts are a social phenomenon, a means of communication, a human need to express and communicate through forms, colors, sounds and movements; art is a creative product or act. The ancient Greeks divided the arts into higher arts and lesser arts. The higher arts were those that allowed the works to be enjoyed through the higher senses (sight and hearing), with which it is not necessary to come into physical contact with the observed object. The fine arts were six: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, declamation and dance. The declamation includes poetry, and with music theater (currently part of Literature) is included. That is the reason why cinema is currently considered the seventh art. The minor arts, on the other hand, are those that impress the minor senses (taste, smell and touch), with which it is necessary to come into contact with the object: gastronomy, perfumery and crafts. Comics are also considered as an artistic expression, being called "the Ninth Art". Its own already established language and its mixture of literary and visual narrative make it, without a doubt, an artistic manifestation.

Ten fine arts

• Architecture: It is the art and science of projecting and building buildings.
• Dance: It is the art where the movement of the body is used, usually with music, as a form of expression of feelings and emotions, and of social interaction, for the purpose of entertainment, or religious.
• Sculpture: It is the art of creating forms in space, both free and in relief.
• Music: It is the art that combines the sounds according to the principles of melody, harmony, rhythm and bell.
• Painting: It is the art of graphic representation using pigments, mixed with other agglutant, organic or synthetic substances.
• Drawing
• illustration
• Literature: It is the art that has the written word as an instrument.
• Theatre: The theatre is the branch of performing arts. It represents stories performed in front of viewers or in front of a camera using a combination of speech, gestures, scenery, music, sound and show.

Modern Fine Art Additions

• Cinema or cinematography: Born at the end of the centuryXIX, it is a very popular art, consisting of projection on a screen of photographs (or drawings) at a certain rate (24 per second) and one after another, producing an optical effect in which they appear to be in motion, forming the so-called "films". These images narrate a story and are often accompanied by sound. For the reproduction of such films it is necessary to possess various machines, depending on whether they are displayed in prepared rooms ex profess or our house.
• Photography: Created in the middle of the centuryXIX, photography is the art of capturing images of reality on paper, using for it a machine called camera. The images captured with this machine are printed on paper by various techniques and chemicals.
  Such images may reflect cotidianity or have a marked artistic character, expressing metaphors or sensations. From this art the cinema subsequently derived, since this is based on photographs.
• Comic: Considered a popular art, and created at the beginning of the centuryXX., the comic is the art of telling stories through sequences of drawings that, mixed with texts, are distributed in squares called vignettes, which, in turn, are placed one after another on the page, forming a sequence.
  Denoted for a long time, due to its marked popular character, the comic is currently considered a full-fledged artistic manifestation, due to the use of its own expressive codes, absent in the rest of the beautiful arts, and its combination of literature and visual art in the same place. For all this, it is qualified by the great public and experts such as "new art" or sequential art.
• Video games: In 2011 artistic protection was extended to video games, which classified them as a legal art.^{[chuckles]required]} In the same way, Xin Wang, creator of a character of Diablo III said “sweet how it happened in the cinema. The video game is new form of art, the eighth art. It depends on how you see it and how you use it.”
• Origami: for centuries, the origami or art of the folding paper, remained in the field of artisanal practice. But in the last 50 years, a renewed interest in understanding the behaviour of the folding matter, both artistically and scientifically, has given impetus to a generation of artists whose works deserve to be located at the height of the beautiful arts. Origami has a characteristic that distinguishes it from other arts: while painting requires the addition of matter, and sculpture implies subtraction, origami does not add or subtract: transforms. The substrate on which the artist prints the folding function can be paper or any other folding material (metal, acetate, etc.). Also called "new origami" to distinguish it from old artisanal practices, it had a rapid evolution in the last half century thanks to the contribution of computer mathematics and the development of techniques such as the box-pleatingThe wet and wet folding. Artists such as Robert J. Lang, Erik and Martin Demaine, Sipho Mabona, Giang Dinh and others are frequently cited to exemplify the way in which origami continues to challenge the limits of an art increasingly committed to his time. Its computational facet and the continuous flow through social networks, where new techniques and designs transit and nurture, have turned origami into a paradigmatic art of the centuryXXI.