An Understanding Into The World Of Arts And Museums

The arts and museums contribute extensively to world culture and heritage. There are tens of thousand of museums across the world. There are different kinds of museums around the world like war museums, science museums, natural history museums, and virtual museums to name a few. 

Arts and museums are objects of historical importance. An art museum or art gallery exhibits selected collection of art for public viewing. Art can be classified into fine arts and performing arts. Fine arts are further classified into drawing, architecture, painting, conceptual art and literature. Performing arts are music, theatre and dance

Art museums are world famous and exhibit art objects from visual arts, which include primarily paintings, sculptures and illustrations. There are famous art museums in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana and Latin American regions. The Uffizi gallery in Florence, the Louvre in Paris and British museum in London are three of the world’s most famous museums.

Arts and museums together represent a diverse and varied cultural ethos of a society. Universal museums like the British museum in London contains varied collections of art, applied art, anthropology, archeology, history and science, The world famous painting The Mona Lisa can be found in the Louvre in Paris. 

The oldest art objects dates back to 75000 years ago which were series of tiny drilled snail shells found in South Africa. Roughly around 40000 years ago cave painting, rock paintings, sculptures, petroglyphes (carving on rocks) have been found. The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Persia, India, Chine, Rome and Arabia followed suit and developed a unique and distinct characteristics of their art.

The Byzantine or Gothic art focused on biblical expressions and the renaissance world showed the return of the material world, human body and the three dimensional reality of landscape.

The 19th and 20th century was known as an intense museum building period were arts and museums went hand in hand The primary focus of American museums was natural and art history and they joined hands with the Europeans. They emulated their European counterparts by including classical collections from Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and Egypt.

The first public museums were opening for viewing only during the 18th century which is also known as the age of enlightenment. A museum is run by a director who has curatorial staff who care for objects and arranges their display.

Arts and museums can also be privately owned. A contemporary art gallery is one which is for profit and are found clustered together in large urban centers. A profit of 25 to 50% is normally taken on the sale of paintings. Many artists and galleries have opened online art galleries which have become very famous in today’s day and age.

The arts and museums are forms of universal communication and have to be preserved in every part of the world. Art serves the purpose of entertainment and also as a means to express social inquiry and change. Museums are a great source of information about culture and history.