Definition of Visual Arts

The Visual Arts are forms, expressions of art that are focused pre-eminently on the creating works that are visual in nature such as painting, photography, printing and the movie theater. In other words, the visual arts are artistic expressions that are eminently appreciated and enjoyed through Through the sense of sight, through our eyes we are capable of being moved by this or that painting, with a He drew or such a movie, among others.

The painting

The painting is the art of representation graph that uses pigments mixed with other organic or synthetic substances. It uses and requires not only knowledge of painting techniques (oils, watercolors, tempera, frescoes), but also knowledge of subject of color theory (those basic rules regarding mixing of colors to be able to reach the desired effect by combining colors of light or pigment.

The photograph

On your side, the photograph, is the process of capturing images and then storing them in a light-sensitive material medium, which is based on the principle of the camera obscura, with which it is achieved project an image captured from a small hole onto a surface so that the image size will be reduced but the image will sharpen herself. Older cameras use sensitive film to store images, whereas today these are have become practically obsolete before the imprint that digital photography that uses memories has achieved digital.

The impression

While, the impressionIt is a process used for the production of texts and images, the most typical with ink on paper and using a press. Today, printing is carried out as a large-scale industrial process and is a fundamental stage in the publishing of books.

Cinema

And the Cinema or Cinematography, one of the most popular visual arts, it is not that the others are not, but without a doubt the cinema boasts a participation special and considerable in the life of almost all the inhabitants of the planet, is the technique that consists of projecting frames quickly and successively to create the impression of movement.

A successful industry chosen by all audiences

In terms of visual art, cinema has achieved what no expression of this type has achieved that it is mass diffusion. Although plastic art achieved a phenomenal diffusion through the centuries and many painters are famous stars, the cinema, has known how to multiply it by a thousand and that is why its industry today moves millions of dollars in everything the world.

Cinema is the visual art that has the most followers around the world and also the one that it has managed to attract through its varied proposed to all audiences of all ages, surely in this very inclusive issue lies the secret of its success…

Those mentioned and described above are considered as classical visual arts, while those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as thearchitecture Y sculpturethey are known as plastic arts. And then among the non-traditional we can find the following: the interactive art (contemporary artistic practices in which there is direct participation by the viewer), airwriting (programmed LED device that writes words in the air), calligraphy (art of writing using beautiful signs) and graffiti (painted on urban furniture).

Within this vast and select group we must include, as we have already seen, the classic plastic arts such as drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, that since certainly remote times, we could say that since man inhabits this world, they have been developing and evolving in the same tune as man has made it, but we must also include in this group more modern expressions of visual art that are closely linked to the technology.
Photography, video art, digital art, are some of the visual arts that have gained prominence more recently, and because, as we have already pointed out, the incorporation of technology into expression.

Now, we cannot ignore as part of this type of expression that it has in view as special recipient of other artistic proposals that precisely capture and move viewers especially from the put in scene visual that they propose, such is the case of performance, interactive art, action art and graffiti.