The liberal arts included grammar, rhetoric and dialectics – which formed the trivium – and arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music – which formed the quadrivium the vulgar arts included architecture, sculpture and painting, but also other activities that are nowadays considered Crafts. In the 2nd century Galen divided art into liberal arts and vulgar arts, according to whether they had an intellectual or manual origin. In classical Greco-Roman antiquity, one of the main cradles of Western civilisation and the first culture to reflect on art, art was considered to be a human ability in any productive field, practically a synonym for "skill". However, the definition of art is open, subjective, debatable there is no unanimous agreement among historians, Philosophers or Artists. Art is a component of culture, reflecting in its conception the economic and social substrates, and the transmission of ideas and values, inherent in any human culture across space and time. The ephemeral nature of certain artistic expressions is above all a subjective concept subject to the very definition of art, a controversial term open to multiple meanings, which have oscillated and evolved over time and geographic space, since the term "art" has not been understood in the same way in all times and places. Temporary art is often promoted by cities, or featured in conjunction with events or festivals.įundamentals of ephemeral art The Umbrella Project (1991), art installation by Christo, Ibaraki, Japan Temporary art is usually displayed outdoors at public landmarks or in unexpected places. Finally, within architecture there is also a typology of constructions that are usually expressed as ephemeral architecture, since they are conceived as transitory buildings that fulfil a function restricted to a period of time. The concept of ephemeral art would also include the various forms of so-called action art, such as happening, performance, environment and installation, or conceptual art, such as body art and land art, as well as other expressions of popular culture, such as graffiti. Within this genre, expressions such as fashion, hairdressing, perfumery, gastronomy and pyrotechnics can be considered ephemeral arts, as well as various manifestations of body art such as Tattooing and piercing. Based on this assumption, the ephemeral arts are those whose nature is not to last in time, or those that are constantly changing and fluctuating. It is a passing, momentary art, conceived for instantaneous consumption. Regardless of the fact that any artistic expression may or may not be enduring in time, and that many works conceived under the criteria of durability may disappear in a short period of time for any undetermined circumstance, ephemeral art has in its genesis a component of transience, of fleeting object or expression in time. Reconstruction carried out in 2007 on Place Georges-Pompidou in Paris, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Klein's 1957 event. Release of 1001 blue balloons, Yves Klein's "aerostatic sculpture". In these expressions, the criterion of social taste is decisive, which is what sets the trends, for which the work of the media is essential, as well as that of art criticism. Because of its perishable and transitory nature, ephemeral art (or temporary art) does not leave a lasting work, or if it does – as would be the case with fashion – it is no longer representative of the moment in which it was created. Néle Azevedo's Melting human figures in Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, UK (2014) are an example of temporary artĮphemeral art is the name given to all artistic expression conceived under a concept of transience in time, of non-permanence as a material and conservable work of art.
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