visual art

The concept of visual art is made up of two well differentiated terms, which we will explain below: art and visual.

Art is a word used to refer to those creations made by the man, through which it manifests its sensitive vision of the world, be it real or imaginary. To do this, the artist relies on a series of resources that are at his disposal; they can be plastic, linguistic or sound. Art was born with a ritual or magical function and was mutating until it became an aesthetic and even recreational issue.

The term visual comes from a Latin word that is linked to what belongs to or relative to the view (meaning that allows to detect and interpret light and the ability to see that living beings of the animal kingdom have thanks to their natural systems).

Taking into account these clarifications we can say that visual art is a term related to those works that can be appreciated fundamentally by the capacity of sight, such as the painting, the Photography or the movie theater (although this one also includes sound). Works in three dimensions, such as sculptures, are usually included in the group of plastic arts. In any case, there are interdisciplines that are called visuals, because they combine various techniques so that the work can be appreciated in a broader way; such is the case of visual poetry.

The concept of visual art emerged after the Second World War to name the arts that involve visual perception. Painting (which can be appreciated from the pigments that are applied to a surface) and photography (the recording of light patterns in a sensitive medium), therefore, are two of the greatest exponents of this type of art.

The composition of visual art is developed by attending to various issues, such as the relationship between figure and ground (to influence the perception of what is seen), the outline, the grouping the elements (by proximity, continuity or similarity) and the pregnancy.

Visual poetry

The visual poetry it is a branch of poetic expressiveness that is combined with other arts, such as painting, photography or even theater; belongs to the set of disciplines that are included in experimental poetry, to which they also belong (phonetic poetry and object poetry).

The visual poets Instead of developing poems based on an idea and expressing it only through words, they fuse it with figures, movements and other resources that allow the recipients of said poetry to appreciate it from different perspectives.

The origin of this visual art is as old as poetry itself. We should travel to 300 BC, when in Greece the poet Simmias of Rhodes wrote verses in the form of calligrams. It was a small poem without a predetermined order: it could be read in different ways acquiring very different meanings. Later authors such as Apollinaire, Guillem Viladot and José Juan Tablada they were in charge of retaking the aesthetics of Simmias and turning this type of experimental poetry into one more discipline within the multiple forms that poetry has taken over time and throughout the world.

At present, visual poetry is very present in the new media; thanks to social networks This type of visual art has a suitable space for its instantaneous diffusion throughout the world and a wide public that enjoys it.