There is no accepted definition of the composition of art, and this concept has changed with the passage of time. The three classic branches of visual arts are painting, sculpture and architecture. And music are all included in the broad definition of art.
public art
Public art is the concept of the city and a form of contemporary culture. Public art is a public space art in the form of sculpture, architecture, public facilities and video art. Its development space lies not only in the unique symbol of urban construction on the material level, but also in people's mind and spiritual guidance. Whether it is urban public art or rural public art, we should adjust measures to local conditions and respect the people, not just decoration.
Public art is the abbreviation of public plastic arts. It is an art that is in harmony with the surrounding environment, adheres to people-oriented, can be recognized by the public, and can exist for a long time in a specific area. Public art has its own rules, not only referring to environmental art, landscape art, urban sculpture, etc. However, only public art can be called public art.
On the Relationship between Public Art and Urban Culture
Public art is an art form gradually developed in the process of urban development. Therefore, in different historical stages, the specific characteristics of urban evolution endow public art with different values and meanings, and also inject different characteristics of the times into public art, and public art is also an inevitable choice for historical development.
According to the relevant records of western art history, as early as 18 century, when public art began to appear, there was an internal connection between public art and urban public, and this internal connection also showed obvious different characteristics with the passage of time. Public art has gradually acquired the attributes of commodities and become a basic culture that urban citizens can appreciate and discuss.
The emergence of civil society also laid a necessary sociological foundation for the development of public art. With the continuous development of civil society, urban residents gradually began to participate in the construction of public space. Therefore, public art is gradually and effectively combined with the democratization process of social public affairs. At the same time, after the 1960s, post-modernism gradually spread in western society, which also had a great impact on public art, and the cultural attribute of public art was gradually established, leaving the traditional aesthetic category. At the same time, the continuous development of popular culture has also prompted great changes in the specific cultural forms of public art. The focus of public attention has gradually shifted to various social problems.
In contemporary society, diversified regional problems have gradually attracted people's extensive attention and finally been effectively solved. Therefore, public art has also developed steadily. After entering the new century, the standard of urban development is no longer limited to the perspective of economic development, and culture has gradually become an element of the core competitiveness of urban development. At the same time, humanistic spirit plays an increasingly important role in the construction of urban brand and the promotion of urban cultural charm, which promotes the all-round development of public art. The emergence of urban culture is the inevitable result of the development of human civilization from quantitative change to qualitative change, and it is also another product of the development of material culture and spiritual culture in the long historical development process.
Public art is created in social practice activities, which will inevitably reflect urban culture and specific urban living conditions, and also effectively express the human living conditions and value orientation contained in its existing urban culture and urban life. The content reflected by urban culture is the political, economic, cultural, customs, religion and moral content formed by different nationalities under specific time and space constraints, and it also expresses the recognition of individual values and the realization of self-value of urban residents.