About this app
Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author's imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields like painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential, in a way that they usually are not in another visual art, like a painting.
Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis (its representation of reality), expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities. Though the definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has changed over time, general descriptions center on the idea of imaginative or technical skill stemming from human agency and creation. When it comes to visually identifying a work of art, there is no single set of values or aesthetic traits. A Baroque painting will not necessarily share much with a contemporary performance piece, but they are both considered art.
Despite the seemingly indefinable nature of art, there have always existed certain formal guidelines for its aesthetic judgment and analysis. Formalism is a concept in art theory in which an artwork's artistic value is determined solely by its form, or how it is made. Formalism evaluates works on a purely visual level, considering medium and compositional elements as opposed to any reference to realism, context, or content.
Art is often examined through the interaction of the principles and elements of art. The principles of art include movement, unity, harmony, variety, balance, contrast, proportion and pattern. The elements include texture, form, space, shape, color, value and line. The various interactions between the elements and principles of art help artists to organize sensorially pleasing works of art while also giving viewers a framework within which to analyze and discuss aesthetic ideas.
Table Of Content :
1tThinking and Talking About Art
2tPrehistoric Art
3tArt of the Ancient Near East
4tAncient Egyptian Art
5tArt of the Aegean Civilizations
6tAncient Greece
7tThe Etruscans
8tThe Romans
9tThe Byzantines
10tIslamic Art
11tArt of South and Southeast Asia Before 1200 CE
12tChinese and Korean Art Before 1279 CE
13tJapan Before 1333 CE
14tNative-American Art Before 1300 CE
15tAfrica Before 1800 CE
16tEarly Medieval Europe
17tRomanesque Art
18tGothic Art
19tThe Italian Renaissance
20tThe Northern Renaissance
21tThe Baroque Period
22tSouth and Southeast Asia After 1200 CE
23tChina and Korea After 1279 CE
24tJapan After 1333 CE
25tThe Americas After 1300 CE
26tOceania
27tAfrica in the Modern Period
28tEuropean and American Art in the 18th and 19th Centuries
29tEurope and America from 1900-1950 CE
30tGlobal Art Since 1950 CE
The eBooks app features allows the user to :
Custom Fonts
Custom Text Size
Themes / Day mode / Night mode
Text Highlighting
List / Edit / Delete Highlights
Handle Internal and External Links
Portrait / Landscape
Reading Time Left / Pages left
In-App Dictionary
Media Overlays (Sync text rendering with audio playback)
TTS - Text to Speech Support
Book Search
Add Notes to a Highlight
Last Read Position Listener
Horizontal reading
Distraction Free Reading
Credits :
Boundless (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))
FolioReader, Heberti Almeida (CodeToArt Technology)
Cover by Designed by new7ducks / Freepik
Pustaka Dewi, www.pustakadewi.com
