Modern Arts
Art is one of the forms of the public conscience and an integral part of the spiritual world of the human, as well as a specific type of spiritual perception of the world. In this respect such human activities as pictorial art, theater, music, literature (which is sometimes separated from the rest of the arts – we all know the expression "literature and arts") and so on are united together as they are specific artistic types of representation of reality.
There have been controversies concerning the meaning of arts and their influence on people and the reality since ancient times. Such disputes and disagreements are explained by the vast diversity of philosophical positions of the theorists, their ideological positions and different creative methods and types of arts they based their theories on (for example they based their theories on literature, music, architecture, pictorial arts, as well on classicism or realism) and finally on the extremely complex structure of the art itself.
Unlike science, language and other forms of specialized social activities designed for satisfying different objective needs of people, art has become the means of integral social education of an individual, as well as his or her emotional or intellectual development, his inclusion in collective experience accumulated by the mankind, in specific social historical interests and ideals. But in order to play this important role the art needs to be able to resemble real human life, i.e. it needs to recreate and model human life in its integrity and structural complexity.
Today artistic and creative activities of the human are realized in a variety of different forms that are called art forms and genres of which there are many. The variety and abundance of such forms may seem like a chaotic mess but in reality they represent an organized system of different forms. For example, depending on the material means with which works of art are created three groups of arts can be logically distinguished: dimensional or plastic (pictorial art, sculpture, graphics, photography, architecture, design), i.e. the ones that create their works in space; temporal (music); and dimensional and temporal which combine the two types described above (dance, theatre, circus), in which time and space participate in the creation of artistic works.
