ART is everywhere around us. It is a way of human creative expression, that provokes our senses, our thoughts, and makes a variety of feelings emerge. Art results in a final product. The product of art is called a work of art, and the person who engages in any kind of art is called an artist. The purpose of art is self-expression. Art is very personal, it can provoke different emotions in different people. There are so many different types of art, so there are different works of art, as well as, different types of artists accordingly.
Performing arts
We know that a broader definition of art includes also music, theater, dance. Those are forms of a group of arts called performing arts. When we say performing arts, we mean forms of art in which individual people (called artists) perform separately or together. Artists use their bodies, voices, or inanimate objects to convey artistic expression. Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called performers, and they often wear costumes and makeup. They include actors, musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, magicians, circus artists, magicians, and so on.
Performing arts are different from visual arts, where artists use paint, pencils, clay, or various materials to create artwork. Performing arts include a range of disciplines, and they are performed in front of a live audience.
Apart from music, dance, and theater, performing arts include opera, drama, magic and illusion performances, oratory, as well as, circus arts.
- Music is perhaps the most universal of the performing arts, and it is part of every society. It is a form of art in which pitch, rhythm, and dynamics are combined to create sound. As an art form, music can occur in live or recorded formats. Also, it can be planned or improvised.
- Dance. When we talk about dance, in the context of performing arts, it generally refers to rhythmic human movement, used as a form of entertainment for the audience in a performance setting. It simply means bodily movements, usually performed to music. Choreography refers to the art of making dances, and Choreographer refers to a person that practices this form of art.
- Theater. The first forms of theater existed a long time ago, and they looked different than today, but they have common elements with today's theaters. The theater is when acting out stories in front of an audience, using a combination of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound, and spectacle. A drama is a play for theater. An opera is a form of theater in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
- Magic. Performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks or illusions is called magic, and illusion is a subgenre of magic. Other subgenres are stage magic and close up magic. Magic is one of the oldest performing arts.
- Other forms of performing arts include oratory arts, such as public speaking, when speech is performed to a live audience.
- A circus is a group that consists of clowns, acrobats, trained animals, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, and other artists who perform shows.
