Senior Thesis Raft Draft: Graphic Design

Senior Thesis Raft Draft-Graphic Design-Art

Art is an aspect of life, through art we can connect. Art comes in many forms such as performance, ceramic, sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, etc. Graphic Design is an important aspect of art in this world that helped build and develop the cities. You can see graphic design everywhere, and it plays many roles in our life. A question asked everywhere is how has art changed the world, community, development of a building, people, and life?.

Art has been with humans from the beginning of time, art was a way people used to communicate in the past and it has evolved throughout time. Graphic design is known as communication design that art practice of planning, projecting ideas and experiences

with visual and textual content. One of the most known types of art we use this day throughout our daily life is performance art and music.

Music plays a huge role in all the people. Music can help ease stress and calm the body down, music can be used to pump our minds when we're feeling sad. It is proven that music affects our emotions, “When we listen to sad songs, we tend to feel a decline in mood. When we listen to happy songs, we feel happier. ... About 22.2 percent of people said that they listen to music between one to two hours every day, where another 22.2 percent said they listen at least five hours a day” . Like how art comes in many forms so does music. Music can vary from really loud music to really slow music and a lot in between. For example, there is classical music which can be used to calm down a body and sometimes help people distract themselves from things, and there is hip-hop or rap music which can be used during a party to lighten the mood and get in the zone to have a good time. Music can be used to help people express themselves. Artists write their music in a certain genre or a certain way because it helps them pertain themselves to others. Music helps people throw out their feelings and tell people their stories. For example, Taylor Swift writes about her breakup and

how her life was during the relationship. Painting is a style of creative expression and can be done in numerous forms. Painting is the application of applying paint, pigment, color or another medium to a solid surface. The medium refers to materials which we use to make art.

The materials can be applied to the base with a brush, but other tools such as sponges, roller, pad, airbrush, and knives can be used. Forms of expressions include drawing, gesture, composition, abstraction, narration, and etc. Paintings can be representational and naturalistic, photographic, symbolistic, emotive, or political in nature, and etc. In a history of painting a portion can be dominated to spiritual motifs and ideas in both Eastern and Western art. Examples of this painting range from artwork representing mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other images of Eastern religious origins. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, as well as objects. The term painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders. The painting also has brain and health benefits such as

creative growth, strengthens memory, builds problem-solving and motor skills, offers stress relief, promotes an optimistic attitude, nurtures emotional growth. “ Painting and other artistic pursuits provide an emotional release for people that struggle with stress. ... A low-stress level leads to a happier, healthier lifestyle and helps improve overall mental health” . Performance Art is an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance presented to an audience within a fine art context. The performance may be either unscripted or scripted, it can also either be really spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with groups or as a class of people, sometimes they also use audience help. The performance can be performed live in person or via media, the performer can be present or absent during the performance, it can be any situation that involves the four basic elements which includes space, time, the performer’s body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between audience and performer meaning the performer is acting out the scene with the need of an audience help, etc.Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of setting or venue and for any length of time.