Art

Life is an art itself. It is the emotions you pour out, the smile you show to the world, and your laughter that echoes as a lullaby. Art is more than what we see in art galleries or museums. Art is with us as we go on with our lives. We may not notice, but art is in our everyday life, even on ordinary days. Through art, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. It makes everything beautiful.

Imagine if art does not exist at all. Imagine a world where there are no movies, no music, no paintings, and no drawings. We will live our lives in black and white.

Art is everywhere. We see art from the moment we open our eyes to the moment before we close them.

The places you go to or visit, the photos that you took, the food that you eat, the movie that you watched, the painting that hangs on your wall, the design of your home are all creations called visual arts.

The visual arts are art forms perceived by the eye. They are artworks that stimulates a feeling through visual experience. It usually takes on nature, and it requires a man’s ability to capture a moment and make something out of it. Visual arts are often aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.

Photography, film making, video, architecture, design, sculpture, crafts, painting, and drawing are visual arts.

Visual arts also include interior design, graphic design, fashion design, industrial design, applied arts, and decorative arts. Some artistic disciplines are involved in visual arts like performing arts, textile arts, and conceptual arts.

 

Photography 

It is a process of producing images using light. Mechanical shutter devices, known as cameras, are used to capture pictures. It is a moment captured and kept as a beautiful memory.

 

Film making

It is a process of producing movies for television or theater. It is an artwork that is in motion. An art that will make you experience all kinds of emotions. Some people watch a movie to bring comfort to their lives.

 

Architecture

It is the art of designing and constructing buildings. Architecture is a complex form of art. Many structures today are built carefully and designed intricately.

 

Sculpture 

It is a three-dimensional artwork created through the molding and shaping of different materials. It is a piece of art that we mostly see in gardens, parks, and museums.

 

Painting

It is a process of applying paint on paper, canvas, or wall. It is everywhere. In every home, restaurant, hotel, or malls. Paintings may look odd because it is a combination of colors and emotions.

 

Art is an expression of oneself. Visual art is one way to bridge the gap between man and nature, between man and society, between countries, and even between continents.

Visual arts help people in analysis and judgment skills. It helps with the creativity of the mind as it improves mental and imagination skills. It helps us to see the world from another perspective and to appreciate the beauty of the world.

 

Today’s generation is all about aesthetics from the design up to the details. Applied arts is a complex form of art that brings together the design and decoration to produce a functional and beautiful object. Applied arts covers fashion design, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and architecture.

 

It focuses on utility and usefulness.

Applied arts are more concerned with the functionality and beauty of the object rather than just looking good. Applied arts focus on the quality of the item and how it will be useful for everyday use. It is like applying aesthetics and practicality together.

 

It offers an excellent career.

Applied arts graduates have a significant advantage in job sectors, most especially when it comes to design. Today, many businesses are about marketing and promoting, which is why skilled designers are high in demand to give them creative solutions to showcase their products.

 

It prepares you for the realities in the workplace.

Creativity and logic come to work together to applied arts because problem-solving within a business includes practicality and creativity to meet the customer’s demand.

 

It can be life-changing

A masterpiece can give joy or inspire a lot of people. Every art has a story to tell, and every work has something to offer. An artist’s creation can give hope and life. Applied arts may not seem to be noticeable, but as you learn to appreciate things around you, you get to see the beauty of art.

 

It improves your skills.

Applied arts is a diverse range of art forms. It hones your logical skills and creativity, which results in an impressive work of art. It also helps you improve your problem-solving skills, which is a good investment as you work on being an artist.

 

It has an impact on fashion design.

As they say, the world is your runway. Applied arts has its way to dictate the style and trends in fashion design. Society and culture influences fashion. As it evolves, it challenges the norms to find its way out of the box.

 

It makes your surroundings beautiful.

The Interior design creates a comfortable, beautiful, and pleasant place to live in as it fulfills your aesthetic goals for your home. Innovation is something that no human can live without, be it in the workplace or home.

 

Today, advertising dominates the world of brands and products.

Many businesses today are into designs and developing brands and products. Graphic design is one in-demand way of promoting brands and products that will target an audience through its appealing look.

 

It makes your life easier.

The life of every individual has made easy as the world continues to advance in technology. Every invention and discovery have made lives efficient and productive, and some jobs no longer require much work and effort because of automation.

 

It allows you to express yourself.

Creativity includes emotions, intuition, and empathy. As you grow as an artist, you get to discover more about yourself, and you get to build and contribute your artwork for humanity.

 

One can assert that women have played a significant role – as much as the men, in the advancement of arts. Whether as innovators or creators of new forms of artistic expressions, patrons, sources of inspiration or pivotal contributors as art historians, women are involved.

One would insincerely believe that there are too few women artists because those who dominate the headlines in the world of art are mostly men. They have faced various kinds of challenges due to gender biases, struggling in training to selling their work and acquiring recognition. This general concept should be put to an end because women have always been at the forefront of art, consistently contributing to designs, fine arts, and performance arts.

Here are some of the exceptional female artists that blaze the trails in the field of arts. These artists are known for making fantastic paintings, sculptures, drawings, street arts and more.

1. Aleah Chaplin 

She is an award-winning artist who bags the bacon in the 2012 London’s National Portrait Gallery. Her paintings are the celebration of the human spirit. She courageously portrays mystical settings, often diffuse with a cool-tinted light, that demonstrates the inner world of her subjects. Her attention to detail enables the nuances of the human form with the sense of robustness and dignity.

2. Alonsa Guevara

Alonsa is a Chilean artist whose work traverses the complexity of nature and is influenced by the tropical surroundings of her beautiful childhood. She works primarily with oil paint to invoke one world originating somewhere between fantastical and believable. Her paintings illustrate her enthusiasm with realism and mimesis.

3. Ann Gale

She is an American figurative painter in Seattle, Washington. She was known for her portraits composed of collections of numerous, detailed colour patches that intensely express the changes in light and the movement of the human figure. Ann Gale worked as Professor of drawing and painting at the University of Washington in 1995.

4. Beth Cavener

Beth Cavener is an American artist who focuses her sculpture on human psychology in an excessive sculpture of animals. She achieves the highly expressive quality of her design through a complicated process, from extracting figures from solid blocks of clay to slicing them into small sections, cutting out and reworking each to intensify its sense of life and internal energy.

5. Chelsea Gustaffson

Chelsea focuses on quirky still life paintings that notions, loss, awkwardness, failure, hope, success and victory. She utilizes a visual language diverse with imagination and inconsistency to speak graciously of those issues and experiences that contemporary society is facing.

6. Colleen Barry

She centres her paintings on luminous portraits of emotional depth, under the artists’ thoughtful gaze, the pictures built with ultra-fine, graceful layers of paint interspersed with impasto and glazes.

7. Dillen Marsh

Dillen Marsh’s work has storytelling at its interior. She has an eye accommodated to the special moments amidst a healthy life. Using coloured pencil, ink and pen, she creates incomparable colourful worlds that are a revitalizing blend of reality and imagination.

8. Esther Huser

The painting of Esther Huser is a beautiful tapestry of flora and fauna. Her leading vision of nature causes her subjects to become something other than they are. By having botanicals out of context and providing with expert detail, she creates spectacular and unexpected landscapes.

Most of the world’s bigger cities are dotted with museums. When visiting a new place, most people find time to visit and check out these destinations. The good news is that there is actually a plethora of many jaw-dropping contemporary museums all over the world waiting to be explored and discovered. If you want to have a whole new experience the next time you go travelling, here are some of the fanciest modern museums today that are worth your visit:

New York’s Museum of Modern Art

MoMa, as it is affectionately called is dubbed as the world’s most influential museum of modern art. The vast collection of this museum covers almost everything, from illustrations, to sculpture, and architecture. There are more than 150,000 pieces in MoMa and these numbers don’t include millions of film stills and thousands of films. It was in 2004 when the museum underwent a controversial remodeling that is spectacular modernization of granite and glass.

Ghent’s Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst

Chocolate or beer is the usual reason why people visit the small medieval villages of Bruges and Ghent in Belgium. But, not a lot of them know that Ghent serves as the home to S.M.A.K, an almost unheard of modern art masterpiece. Located in a lush green park on the town’s outskirts, the single building where the museum is found used to be casino. Artistic license will welcome you before you even enter the doors of the museum. Several disturbing stone mannequin torsos cover the front wall. International and Belgian artists are featured on the rotating exhibits that reflect the penchant of the curator for pieces with explosive colors.

London’s Tate Modern

Any list of the fanciest modern museums today will never be complete without mentioning the Tate Modern, the most prestigious and popular venue for arts in the entire Europe. Nestled on the Thames’ banks, this colossal museum is a top tourist attraction in London not only because you can explore it for free but more because it has exhibitions that showcase various media and styles. There are lots of spaces in the rooms featuring vaulted ceilings that give enough breathing room to the featured displays. Visitors can observe them at several angles, something you don’t find in other museums.

Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art

If you want to spend a day away from the sunny beaches of Sydney and be oriented with the city’s culture, MCA should be your first stop. The museum is still somewhat young, opening its doors in 1991. However, the space is an incredible 1930s art deco building found at the very heart of the commercial district of the city. Exhibitions usually feature aboriginal artists and Australians although there are also works from different corners of the world.

Paris’ Centre Georges Pompidou

At the center of Paris is this one of a kind structure that is inside out as far as design is concerned. The team of architectures behind its creation made sure that the entire building itself will be a good subject of conversations as much as the pieces found inside. The collection of modern art in the museum ranges from artworks to photography, furniture, and even decorative arts.

Out of all the fanciest modern museums today, which do you want to visit first?