By Karri Owens
Earlier man as a means of interaction, to state their inner thoughts and a means to recording events, discovered arts. The original caves; monuments and scripts preserved inside the museums bear witness to that particular fact. As we evolved, so did art. Art has reached such height that now it is usually classified into various categories that further have subcategories. Different regions and civilizations have many forms, which have a deep influence with the culture. Vaguely arts can be distinguished together depicted by expressing it over a medium like paintings, sculptures, architecture, and crafts and also the other having human body involvement like acting, gestures, dialogues and singing. On this basis broad classifications of arts which can be made are visual arts, culinary arts, performing arts and language art.
Ancient Greeks played a serious role in the persuasion of art associating with human form, which comes under the category of performing arts. Here a persons figure is used as a medium of expressing art as opposed to materials like stone, metal, clay or paint. But to aid the human form of art, clay or metal model more vividly called props are used to enhance the performance which come under the category of plastic arts. A few of the subcategories of performing arts are theater, dance, music, magic, opera, juggling, film, comedy, acrobatics, martial arts, and marching arts for example brass bands. Accordingly the human being performers depicting these sub classes of performing arts are known as actors, dances, musicians, magician, singers, jugglers, comedians and acrobats.
The word theater also originated from the Greek word "Theatron" which suggests "Place of Seeing". Plays were held on special attractions having religious importance, and so the main idea revolved around ancient roman gods with the role of male gods being enacted with musculature, elegance and poise where as the female gods being enacted with beauty, grace and anatomically correct magnitude. Singing seemed to be used as a means of enacting apart from dialogue delivery. Along with the costumes masks were also a part of the actors' attire. The stage was placed in a realistic landscape backdrop.
Through the middle ages story-lines of the plays were mostly based on biblical incidences with an influence with the Byzantine and Gothic art. The Eastern art was mostly relying on the Western medieval art. Little concentration was paid to the realistic illustration. The costumes too were surface patterning, which suggests the basic color of the robe was emphasized upon in lieu of enhancing it by messing around with light.
The nineteenth along with the twentieth century saw a revolution being effected with the discoveries made during that era by Aristotle, Einstein and Newton. Light was used to modulate the color and also to bring about a realistic feeling by creating an environment to absorb the audience into it. As inventions were made, traveling became a breeze. This led to the influence of just one culture over the other, this globalized the western taste in theaters around the world.
As time progressed there are diverse changes in theater arts that depicted different culture and moral values. The themes have revolved around fairy-tales, fables, religion, folktales, comedy, fiction, tragedy, romance, legend, history, epic, biography, adventure and material truths. Different forms of theater arts are mime, opera, kabuki, ballet, classical Indian dance, Chinese opera, pantomime and mummers' play. Today Theater Arts are as important form of art as any other arts and attracts all art lovers towards it.
Ancient Greeks played a serious role in the persuasion of art associating with human form, which comes under the category of performing arts. Here a persons figure is used as a medium of expressing art as opposed to materials like stone, metal, clay or paint. But to aid the human form of art, clay or metal model more vividly called props are used to enhance the performance which come under the category of plastic arts. A few of the subcategories of performing arts are theater, dance, music, magic, opera, juggling, film, comedy, acrobatics, martial arts, and marching arts for example brass bands. Accordingly the human being performers depicting these sub classes of performing arts are known as actors, dances, musicians, magician, singers, jugglers, comedians and acrobats.
The word theater also originated from the Greek word "Theatron" which suggests "Place of Seeing". Plays were held on special attractions having religious importance, and so the main idea revolved around ancient roman gods with the role of male gods being enacted with musculature, elegance and poise where as the female gods being enacted with beauty, grace and anatomically correct magnitude. Singing seemed to be used as a means of enacting apart from dialogue delivery. Along with the costumes masks were also a part of the actors' attire. The stage was placed in a realistic landscape backdrop.
Through the middle ages story-lines of the plays were mostly based on biblical incidences with an influence with the Byzantine and Gothic art. The Eastern art was mostly relying on the Western medieval art. Little concentration was paid to the realistic illustration. The costumes too were surface patterning, which suggests the basic color of the robe was emphasized upon in lieu of enhancing it by messing around with light.
The nineteenth along with the twentieth century saw a revolution being effected with the discoveries made during that era by Aristotle, Einstein and Newton. Light was used to modulate the color and also to bring about a realistic feeling by creating an environment to absorb the audience into it. As inventions were made, traveling became a breeze. This led to the influence of just one culture over the other, this globalized the western taste in theaters around the world.
As time progressed there are diverse changes in theater arts that depicted different culture and moral values. The themes have revolved around fairy-tales, fables, religion, folktales, comedy, fiction, tragedy, romance, legend, history, epic, biography, adventure and material truths. Different forms of theater arts are mime, opera, kabuki, ballet, classical Indian dance, Chinese opera, pantomime and mummers' play. Today Theater Arts are as important form of art as any other arts and attracts all art lovers towards it.
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