Art is an artistic and creative activity of man. The difference between one type of art from another can only be in the means of material embodiment of the plan. For example, the expressiveness of words in literature, the brightness of sound in music, the plasticity of movement in dance, the beauty and volume in architecture, etc.
Theories and Assumptions
In an effort to create something new, humanity has come to a generalization of the arts. Today it is a mixture of all traditionally known types of creativity, offered to the user in a non-standard form.
The question about the origins of synthetic arts is still controversial. Some researchers believe that the basis of all the arts known to mankind is the representation of wandering artists. Others believe that the origins should be sought in religious rites and carnival processions. There are even interesting theories that art came from magical ritual actions and beliefs.
Variety of perceptions
As you know, all types of art are equal. Among them there is not and cannot be secondary. Each of them in its own way reflects the world with its inherent set of expressive-visual means.
So, for example, a painter expresses his feelings and emotions in the beauty of lines, harmony of colors, colors and black and white transitions. The composer, perceiving the world through hearing, can depict his feeling through rhythm, musical-tonal intonation and sound. The choreographer expresses his attitude through the plasticity of the human body and the graceful harmony of movement.
The director in the theater expresses the actions and actions of people through actors who are trained in stage skills, through their poses, gestures, facial expressions, movement and word.
And it is quite natural that each of them cannot fully convey their feelings without involving another form of art. Therefore, synthetic forms of art appeared.
Made from simple
Synthetic art is an artistic and aesthetic activity that is an organic union or a mixture of all kinds of arts. The result is a new aesthetically holistic creative idea.
Theater under this definition falls first of all. And it doesn’t matter whether it is dramatic or opera, it harmoniously combines acting, literature, painting, music, arts and crafts, etc.
Ballet performance is also directly related to the category of synthetic arts. It is amazingly “friends” of body plasticity, expressed in dance movements, painting, musicality, sculpture (with a touch of pleasant eroticism), the genre of pop art (represented by a sequence of different genre numbers: illusionism, dancing, singing, recitation, acrobatic stunts, etc.) .
The circus also belongs to the category of "synthetic art". It combines satirical notes, spectacular rooms with trained animals and elements of various sports and strength exercises.
Musical thirst for synthesis
If you look, then even in the family of simple arts you can find synthetic art. An example of this is vocal music or dance, concluded in the synthesis of space and time, and illustrations in books.
But here you need to understand that synthetic art is not the sum of its simple forms. This is part of the created artistic and aesthetic image in which each of the arts changes, adapting to the main idea.
For example, music, getting into the cinema, acquires a new expressiveness, emphasizing or muffling the action. And given the fact that music belongs to non-figurative forms of art, one can trace how it acquires spatial character in a movie and becomes architectonic. Now she can change not only space, but also time.
This situation was interestingly described by Alfred Schnittke. Today it is a famous composer of the 20th century, and almost forbidden during his lifetime. In any case, the Union did not perform his songs. But for the movie he wrote a lot of musical compositions. And he agitated many other composers to try themselves in the cinema. It was in the cinema, Schnittke believed, that the expressive, hitherto unknown potential of the musical language is felt. The music theorist and composer also emphasized that music as a synthetic art expresses itself stunningly in a team with a director and actor. Of course, this is not about the musical themes that accompany the film. This is a musical moment, which, ahead of the frame, carries information to the viewer. That is, music can transmit information in a non-verbal and inexpressive way!
Spatial transformation
Theatrical business or cinema, "sucking" music from two-dimensional, is transformed into three-dimensional. The fact that the theater is a synthetic art, people realized a few centuries ago, because it contains several types of art at once, and rests on two pillars: dramaturgy (literary component) and acting.
Image is the foundation of contemporary collective art
Synthesized art, descended from the visual, dominate the modern system of video culture. Synthetic art and image are closely connected through a monitor or screen. Both one and the other is a picture (image), only constantly moving. The screen is a direct follower of the visual arts thanks to the ongoing evolution of modern computer technology.
Today, a person in a rapidly transforming world is in a changing space of visual arts. And it is already natural that familiarization with culture and other types of creativity often passes through the screen.
With each subsequent round of the technological revolution, new unusual ideas, new subspecies of art appear, and with them customs and traditions change.
Digital art (computer or digital) is a creative and creative activity of a person. It is organized using computer or information technology, through the use of which a digital product is obtained.
Such a changing tech world
In today's media space, the role and place of image in synthetic arts cannot be overestimated. Moreover, its digital form is rapidly evolving. And if you take into account how many digital computer technologies are in the traditional academic disciplines today, you can see how the lines between established art forms and multimedia “masterpieces” are blurring.
Digital painting
It is quite difficult to determine the name of the resulting synthetic art. The works resulting from this art can be either a single sound, an image, or a video or animation, a gallery of video works or a Web site. Experts propose to call this art a synthetic digital painting. The point is that a digital (computer) image is not created using computer modeling, but by a person applying the necessary tools in a painter’s work imitated with the support of computer (digital) technologies.
Computer developments in the digital art of painting are the artist's brushes, paints and easel. In order to "portray" well, including on a computer, you need to have at least an initial set of knowledge of the art of painting and skillfully apply artistic technologies (color wheel, glare, perspective, reflexes, etc.).