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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT PAINTING 320 DRAWING 322 SCULPTURE 323 ARTISTS 324 PHOTOGRAPHY 325 DESIGN 326 DECORATIVE ARTS 327 ARCHITE ...

Painting ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT PAINTING Painting is the art of creating pictures by applying colour to a surface. Paintings can ...

FIND OUT MORE. Artists 324 • Drawing 322 • First Modern Humans 362–363 • Renaissance 398 Arts and Entertainment^321 WHAT IS ILLU ...

FIND OUT MORE. Design 326 • Painting 320–321 • Renaissance 398 322 Arts and Entertainment 1 SHADED FACE Light falling on the fac ...

FIND OUT MORE. Decorative Arts 327 WHAT DOES THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEAN? The term refers to the three dimensions of space – length, ...

FIND OUT MORE. Drawing 322 • Painting 320–321 • Sculpture 323 324 Arts and Entertainment Artists Artists are people who create a ...

FIND OUT MORE. Colour 180 • Lenses 181 • Light 178–179 • Media 298–299• Painting 320–321 Arts and Entertainment^325 Photography ...

326 Arts and Entertainment Design Design is the way something is planned, arranged, and made. A designer aims to create things t ...

FIND OUT MORE. Ancient Greece 376 –377 • China’s First Empire 378 • Sculpture 323 Decorative Arts In contrast to the fine arts o ...

328 Arts and Entertainment Architecture Architecture is the art of designing buildings. Architects design buildings in different ...

FIND OUT MORE. Ancient Greece 376–377 • Construction 202–203 • Design 326 SKYSCRAPERS The term skyscraper became popular in the ...

330 Arts and Entertainment Music RHYTHM The basis of all music is its beat, which divides it into units of time. Composers and m ...

FIND OUT MORE. Composition 333 • Musical Instruments 332 • Musicals 338 • Opera 338 • Orchestra 335 • Popular Music 334 PITCH Pi ...

332 FIND OUT MORE. Music 330–331 • Orchestra 335 • Sound 176–177 1 GRAND PIANO When a musician hits a key, a hammer strikes a st ...

Composition Most music is imagined first and then written down as a composition in a. SCORE. The music might be vocal or instrum ...

334 Arts and Entertainment Popular Music Popular (pop) music is largely vocal and appeals to a mass, mainly teenage audience. Or ...

Orchestra An orchestra is a group of musicians playing together under the direction of a conductor. The musicians perform music ...

336 Arts and Entertainment Dance When people move in time to music, they are dancing. As they dance, they organize their body mo ...

Arts and Entertainment^337 FIND OUT MORE. Composition 333 • Music 330–331 • Musicals 338 CHOREOGRAPHY Choreography is the arrang ...

338 Arts and Entertainment Opera An opera is a drama set to music. It is performed and sung by singers who act out different rol ...