An Analysis of Different Art Subjects and Their Significance

This report provides an overview of various art subjects, including drama, dance, media arts, music, and visual arts, highlighting their importance in education. It delves into the key elements of each subject, such as the elements of drama (thought, idea, action), dance (space, time, force, and shape), media arts (light, sound, time, and editing), music (dynamics, rhythm, pitch), and visual arts (line, color, texture). The report also discusses teaching methods, emphasizing the development of skills like imagination, creativity, and effective communication. Furthermore, it underscores the role of art in fostering cognitive growth, critical thinking, and decision-making skills among students. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of art in building creativity, improving academic performance, and offering visual learning techniques.

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
Discussion.............................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
The stream of art is popularly known and offers wide opportunities among students in
various fields like mass communication, teaching, counselling and many others. The main
subjects’ options available in art are Drama, Dance, Media arts, Music and Visual Arts.
Drama as a subject helps in understanding the difference between reality and portrayal.
Drama as an art requires seriousness towards work and develops deep concentration for
participating in the activities that are available. Dance is an art form that consists of
sequence of human movement purposely (Holvoet, 2018). The real purpose of introducing
dance as a subject is because it is considered as a good exercise and makes a persona a better
individual. Dance is a ritual that demonstrates all the specimen of human soul. Media art is a
subject that makes the communication through films, video, audio, photography, interactive
media and digital platforms. It introduces a new curriculum that requires new competencies
and offers new learning ways. It helps the students to learn how to communicate effectively
and creatively by the use of new technology. Music is an important art field in the art
stream. The purpose of introducing music as a subject is to explore basic music theory so
that students who have interest in music can extent their knowledge and have a more
comprehensive concepts. Music is a melody of sounds that can unify the mind and soul
(Holvoet, 2018). The other subject that would be discussed in this report is visual art; it is
one of the elective subjects in the art education. It supports children’s in their acquisition of
art and aesthetic way. It stretches the potential of students and develops new values and
attributes so that their future could be brightened. These subjects are important as it
encompasses development domain in child. It offers physical development along with
mental relief.
Discussion
Art should be a compulsory part in everyday activity. It offers a lot of tools so that skills
could be developed. It helps in improving the imagination power, creative skills and also
offers open-ended experiences so that success is oriented is a right way to do something
(Chen & Grauman, 2018). Below is a discussion of the key elements of various art subjects.
The way it can be taught is also discussed.
Drama- The elements of drama is a composition of proses that is used at time of
performance (Desai, et. al, 2016). It offers an interaction between the character and audience

through a message. They elements cover enacting the role through the emotions and persons
personality (Holvoet, 2018). The key elements of drama are thought, idea, action scenario,
characters, language, music, audience and the theme of message that need to be delivered.
The basic things that are taught in drama classes are performance techniques, fundamentals
of drama, playwriting and screenwriting (Chen & Grauman, 2018). In drama classes, short
actions plans are created that need to be depicted and then materials are prepared so that
level of confidence and willingness to take risk could be improved.
(Source: https://owlcation.com/humanities/How-to-Teach-Drama )
Dance- It is one of the most unique and important form of art. The four fundamental
elements of dance cover space, time, force, and shape. Space is the compositional elements
that refer to the way in which dancers move ad interacts with the physical world (Epstein,
2015). Time is the other element that is related to space as dancer cannot move through
space without moving through time. The other is energy that demonstrates the movement of
dynamics and build by passion and stamina. The last basic element is relationship that is
ability to relate to other dancers and objects (Apine, Pokrotnieks, Leja, Atteka & Krumina,
2016).
The dance is taught by educational programs in which public and private performances are
prepared that covers the practices and teaching sessions so that students enjoy dance
(Lepikhin, 2017).

(Source: https://www.kristin.school.nz/life-at-kristin/performing-arts/dance)
Media Arts- The elements that contribute in media art is light that deals with the artwork
required for using the light. The other is sound that deals with the music and sound effects
required (Apine, Pokrotnieks, Leja, Atteka & Krumina, 2016). The other element in media
art is time, point of view, performance, framing, narrative and editing skills (Lepikhin,
2017). The principal of media art is interactivity, heterogeneity and hybridization. It is used
to create art piece that determines the nature of work.
This can be taught by allowing students to work in groups and gain opportunity to apply
knowledge. Students are offered a chances through which they explore, generate and
develop the idea for creating media productions (Koch & Han, 2014).
Music- The elements of music allow students to learn in a captivated way. The first element
is dynamic that tells about the difference in volume. The other is rhythm that covers the
concerns related to timings (Bailey, 2016). Pitch is another element that is used to match the
melodies so that it could be matched with the song. The other elements are timber, texture
and form of music.

(Source: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Elements-of-Music-Posters-
2757883)
During the music learning the instructions for playing an instrument are given along with
giving singing and voice lessons. A platform is also offered to students during classes so that
they can get a place to practise (Eschenburg, 2018). It offers in depth musical knowledge,
enthusiasm, patience, good communication skills, flexibility and motivational skills (Yusoff,
2015).
Visual Arts- The elements of visual arts covers line, colour, texture, perspective, volume,
form and space. The line is an element that depicts the point moving in space. The shape and
form tells about the height, width and depth. The value focuses on the lightness that is
involved in understanding the visual arts (Nanayakkara, Burton, Margerison & Worsley,
2018). The space and colour are the elements that are used for maintaining the intensity and
hue of the colour. Visual arts are taught by allowing students to focus creating art by
showcasing visually.
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Conclusion
The art subject are very important in the education system as it build up creativity among
students, it also somewhere improves academic performance. It offers visual learning
techniques to the students interpret, criticize, and use visual information, and how to make
choices based on it. It also strengthens the problem of making decisions. It increases the
focus and thinking skill of an individual. The major elements that are seen in art are unity,
balance, movement, rhythm, focus, contract, pattern and proportion. In this report, the art
related subjects that are dance, drama, visual arts, media arts and music. The keys elements
of each of the subject are discussed along with the ways in which these subjects are taught to
students. Art also improves children’s cognitive growth that helps kids with their early math
skills. Art can be said as a reflection of what a child knows about the world and enables the
child to choose how to translate those ideas and experiences. It can be concluded that it is
significant as it allows children to be creative.

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