Unit 1 IP Art Appreciation

Running head : ART TYPES

Art and Its Different Types

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Art and Its Different Types

All art is but imitation of nature ' So goes a quotation from The Elder ' Seneca Lucius Annaeus (55 ? BC- 40 ? AD . If one is to look at art works around us , one would agree to this . However , it has been said that art is quite difficult to define . Thus , this essay will attempt to define the word art ' and to identify the different types of

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According to Plato , art represents the beauty of the physical and the non-physical ' world (cited in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2007 . Similarly , Weaver (2003 ) defines art as based on esthetics which man attempts to represent in new forms using different materials However , he attests that it is difficult to define art . Moreover , Barnes (2007 ) looks at art as the result of the creative expression of man 's feelings and ideas with the use of varied mediums which are modified to produce visually stimulating objects

Art is generally categorized into eight types which include painting sculpture , architecture , photography , print making , conceptual art installation art and performance art (MSN Encarta , 2007

The first type of art is painting which uses color suspended in oil water or egg yolk applied on a surface of wood , plaster , canvass or . The common types of painting are fresco painting , oil painting tempera painting and watercolor . An example of a marvelous painting is Leonardo da Vinci...