1Startclub Blogs

Art Deco was a popular international design faction from 1925 until 1939, involving the deco arts such as architecture, inner design, and manufacturing design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts & films. This group was, in a sense, an amalgam of many different styles and movements of the beginning 20th century, including Art Nouveau, Constructivism, Neoclassical, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, and Futurism. Its fame peaked in Europe in the Roaring Twenties and continued strongly during the United States through the 1930s. Although more design movements have political or philosophical origins or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, functional, and modern.

Western art is the art of Europe, and individuals parts of the world that have come to follow mostly European cultural traditions such as the Americas.

Written histories of Western art often start with the art of the Ancient Middle East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilizations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Similar with these important cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as statues, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, approved and transformed by Rome and carried, with the Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

The power of the art of the Classical period waxed and waned throughout the next two thousand years, seeming to slip into a remote memory in the Medieval period, to re-emerge in the Renaissance, suffer a term of what some early art historians viewed as "decay" during the Baroque period, to reappear in a refined form in Neo-Classicism and to be re-born in Post-Modernism.

Western art is arranged into a number of stylistic periods, which, historically, overlap each other as dissimilar styles flourished in different areas. Broadly the periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern. Each of these is further subdivided.

'Style' is used in two senses: It can submit to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that symbolize an individual artist's work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is related with. This can stalk from an actual collection that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a group in which art historians have placed the painter. The word 'style' in the last sense has fallen out of favor in academic discussions about modern painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts.

The performing arts vary from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, presence as a medium, and the final uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some art object.

Performing arts comprise acrobatics, busking, comedy, dance, magic, music, opera, film, juggle, martial arts, marching arts, such as brass bands, and theatre.

Artists who contribute in these arts in front of an audience are called performers, including actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, and singers. Performing arts are supported by workers in related fields, such as songwriting and stagecraft. Performers often adjust their appearance, such as with costumes and phase makeup, etc.

There is also particular form of fine art in which the artists perform their work live to an viewers. This is called Performance art. More performance art also includes some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props. Dance was often refer to as a plastic art through the Modern dance era.

Indian paintings traditionally revolved around the religious deity and kings. Indian art is a combined term for several different schools of art that existed in the Indian subcontinent. The paintings different from great frescoes of Ellora to the intricate Mughal miniature paintings to the metal embellished works from the Tanjore school. The paintings from the Gandhar-Taxila are subjective by the Persian works in the west. The eastern style of painting was typically developed around the Nalanda school of art. The works are most inspired by different scenes from Indian mythology.

The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, and some of them are older than 5500 BC. Such works constant and after several millennia, in the 7th century, carved pillars of Ajanta, Maharashtra state present a good example of Indian paintings, and the colors, mostly various shades of red and orange, were derived from minerals.

Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are rock-cut cave monuments dating back to the second century BCE and containing paintings and statue considered to be masterpieces of both Buddhist religious art and universal pictorial art.