Culture and Arts
Art is creation of something aesthetically pleasant. Art is as old as a man. Art is
important to people because it educates, entertains, stimulates the imagination and tries to
make the viewer understand some of the emotions.
Some kinds of art are literature which includes novels, short stories, biographies, drama
and poetry and performing arts for example dance, opera, cinema, theatre etc. and fine
arts like architecture and sculpture and modern arts which include graffiti and computer
graphics. Performing arts include modern dance, ballet and concerts, rock, classical,
country and western music.
Literature is very interesting kind of art. Among people who make literature are writers
- novelists and poets. They write many kinds of literature. Most typical genres in
literature are novel, romantic or historical, short story or detective story, biography,
autobiography and science fiction. Poet generally writes poetry and songs. Literature is
not interesting for me. I do not like reading literature and I read few books in my life. I
have never written any literary work except my school literature homework. I do not have
a gift for this kind of art.
Dance is a specific kind of art. It includes many sorts of dance, ballet, square dancing and
folk dance. Dancers dance in the theatre with a partner. A lot of people like dancing and
they dance in dance clubs and do this kind of art for pleasure. I like dancing, too.
However, I can not do it right. I think it is sometimes very funny.
Opera is not familiar to me. I do not like opera and it is strange for me. But people like
opera and go to performances. A lot of actors sing and run on the stage to entertain
people. Opera was popular in older centuries but it is not so popular nowadays.
Theatre is similar to opera but actors do not sing on stage and they do more action.
Movie is one of new kinds of art. Now it is more business than art. Actors have big rates
and are very famous. We can see movie in the cinema or on TV. A cinema is popular for
young people. They go to cinema with their friends and see horror films, comedies,
science fiction movies, thrillesr, westerns, war film, action movies or road movies. In the
movie we find soundtrack - it is music for the movie. Movie is easy consuming art. I like
movies and TV and watch it every day.
Fine art(s) – art developed for rather aesthetic application than practical one. Among
them are architecture, sculpture and painting.
Architecture – Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti
Sculpture - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Painting – Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Piccaso, Rembrandt
Music is very variety kind of art. We can hear classical, popular, jazz, rock, country,
western, orchestra and choir. Music is represents in festival, concert hall or jazz club. I
think music is very good art and it is easy clear for every one.
Your favourite kind of art - description
My favourite art is music. I like Slovak underground music because I understand it but I
like Depeche Mode too. I like to go to open air concert in summer. There is very good
live music. It is better than music from CD player. Depeche Mode is older then me. It is
twenty four years old and it is British group. It is come from Essex in England. Now in
this group are three people singer Dave Gahan, musician Martin Lee Gore and mental
power of group Andrew John Fletcher. Dave, when he was in teenage years was a „punk“
but he has never done this music professionally. When his glory grew up he became
depending on drugs and alcohol. He has two children a boy and a girl. It is very good
group with super music synthesizers.
Culture in your town
There are some possibilities to visit cultural events in our town. We have a cinema where
you watch movie but variety of movie menu is not very well. We have a theatre. We have
a museum and gallery. In our museum is the same exposition for more years. In our
gallery is sometime exhibition by unknown artist.
Last I visited open air rock concert. It was very good experience because I had much
more fun than in a night club. People were dancing and shouting. There was very good
beer and live music. There was performing popular rock band. People like this kinds of
art. I bought ticket from my friend who sells tickets for concerts. Art as open air concert
is not safe for children. However, they like this event when it appears in their city. Music
plays so loud and hard and that is not for young children.
Festivals are another kind of concerts. Many people come from all parts of the country to
see and hear their favourite bands. Some people meet there new friends. Festivals usually
run more than one day so people sleep under tents and everything is a big adventure.