FA 150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Aerial Perspective, Outsider Art, Signify
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Fine arts focus on visual arts, by nerd. Fine arts once used to classify a hierarchy of arts but is now used to describe all visual, language, and performing arts. Art a human expression in reaction to their environment. Space arts all visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, etc. Time arts preforming arts: music, theater, dance, etc. Language arts written/spoken forms of art: poetry, novel, plays, etc. 2d art drawings, paintings, original prints, etc. Architecture an environmental art of structures made out of masonry and/or wood. Drawing oldest form for making a 2d image. Paint contains a pigment, solvent, and binders: oil paint allowed for the artist to form a difference in opaqueness, oil was the binder water was the solvent. Fresco applied to plaster: water based. Tempera egg yolk is binder, water is the solvent: acrylic paint used liquid plastic as the binder, water as the solvent.
