Iconic & Emerging Artists
Formalism evaluates works on a purely visual level, considering medium and compositional elements as opposed to any reference to realism , context, or content. The fine arts include painting, sculpture, certain graphic arts and architecture. Within social sciences, cultural economists show how video games playing is conducive to the involvement in more traditional art forms and cultural practices, which suggests the complementarity between video games and the arts. The modern distinction between "artistic" and "non-artistic" skills did not develop until the Renaissance. Comics are often called the "ninth art" (le neuvième art) in Francophone scholarship, adding to the traditional "Seven Arts". In the field of building architecture, the skills demanded of an architect range from the more complex, such as for a hospital or a stadium, to the apparently simpler, such as planning residential houses. Many architectural works may be seen also as cul