THE ARTS

THE ARTS
Visual Arts:“creating a beautiful object”
Painting, photography, drawing, prints, calligraphy, comics
Sculpture, decorative arts, textiles and fashion arts, crafts, conceptual arts
Design, applied arts, graphic design, industrial, interior, landscape design
Architecture, film, digital media, animation
Performing Arts: “creating a stimulating experience…using body, face or presence”
Dance: choreography, ballet, folk, ballet, tap, modern, ballroom, hip-hop
Martial arts, acrobatics, juggling,mime, marching arts, gymnastics, figure skating Synchronized swimming
Theater: plays, Chinese opera, Kabuki, Classical Indian, Classical Cambodian
Music: singing, symphony orchestras, whistling, percussion
Pitch (melody and harmony)
Rhythm: tempo, meter (the grouping together of beats)
Articulation (the transition or continuity of notes or groups of notes) Sonic qualities (timbre and texture), Dynamics
Literary Arts“creating a stimulating experience” (Wikipedia on The Arts)
…steady progression toward a universal theme‟ (Ira Glass on story telling) Poetry, Prose (fiction/non-fiction), short stories, ballads, legends, myth, folk tales
Websites on The Arts
Visual Arts: Museums:
The Louvre in Paris, France www.louvre.fr
Rijks Museum in Amsterdam www.rijksmuseum.nl
Egyptian Museum, Supreme Council of Antiquities /eng
The Smithsonian
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Boston Museum of Fine Art
The International Center of Photography
Visual Arts
Architectural Digest
Design ideas
The Academy Awards for Motion Picture Industry
Performing Arts
The Royal Shakespeare Company /whats-on
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The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
Great Performances /wnet/gperf
Masterpiece Theater /wgbh/masterpiece
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, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
British magazine on classical music, since 1923.
Literary Arts
Nobel Prize for Literature
Pulitzer Prize for journalism, drama, music, letters incl. poetry,
Lots of short stories to read online. and
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Documentaries Amazing Grace, Horowitz in Moscow, Ida Haedyn, The Mystery of Picasso,
Movies about The Arts: Hamlet, Hello Dolly, The King and I, Mr. Holland‟s Opus, Music of the Heart, My Fair Lady, Seraphine, The Sound of Music
Plays The Foreigner by Larry Shue, Fiddler on the Roof, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Short Stories The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Musicals Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Finian‟s Rainbow, Godspell, Guys and Dolls, Hello Dolly, Jesus Christ Superstar, The King and I, The Man of LaMancha, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, West Side Story
Poems and Poets A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, A Road Less Traveled, e e cummings, Persian Poets: Hafez, Sa‟di, and Rumi
Books Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Crucible by Carl Whitaker
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Hiroshima by John Hersey
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
It‟s Never Too Late by Bobby DeLaughter, How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
Keep Your Powder Dry by Margaret Mead
To Kill a Mockingbird by Nell Harper
Momma Day by Gloria Naylor
Native Son by Richard Wright
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Room of One‟s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Silences by Tillie Olsen
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith。