Scope of art

We can simply define Art as “ a diverse range of human activities in creating visual,
auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative,
conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated fo r their beauty or
emotional power.”
Visual Arts
The Visual Arts are those that we perceive with our eyes.
They may be classified into two groups:
Graphic Art - ( Flat or two-dimensional surface) A category of fine art, graphic art
covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e.
produced on a flat surface.
Plastic Arts or Applied Arts - ( Three Dimensional ) are all the arts that apply design
and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them
aesthetically pleasing.
The Graphic Arts : Broadly, this term covers any form of visual artistic representation,
especially painting , drawing , photography , and the like or in which portrayals of forms
and symbols are recorded on two-dimensional surface.
Printers also use the term graphic arts to describe all processes and products of the
printing industry. ( Painting, Drawing, Graphic Processes, Commercial Art, Mechanical
Processes and Photography)
Painting
This is the process of applying pigment to a surface to secure effects involving forms and
colors. Painting mediums includes oils, watercolors, acrylic , and others. Canvas, wood,
paper, and cemented walls are some of the surfaces on which paintings are executed.
Stained glass
Stained glass, in the arts, the colored glass used for making decorative windows and other
objects through which light passes.
mural and graffiti art
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling
or other permanent substrate.
Graffiti (both singular and plural; the singular graffito is rarely used except in archeology)
is a type of art genre that means writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface,
usually without permission and within public view.
Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. form of visual
communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an
individual or group. Graffiti aims to be seen without being caught or to spread an important
message. The end purpose of Graffiti, like other art is to tell a story or express oneself.
Graffiti allows artists to express themselves, even if it is not in a publicly acceptable
manner.
MURAL BANSKY , BALLOON GIRL , 2002

COFFEE PAINTING TUBA PAINTING

TUMBANG PRESO, Clarisse Pastor-Medina Dante Enage, An artist in Tacloban City

SOIL PAINTING
Soliman Poonon produced this painting depicting two warriors and a mother figure
protecting a “jar of peace”.