virtual reality

Examples of virtual reality in the following topics:

• Inclusion of All Five Senses

  • "Virtual reality" is a term that refers to computer-simulated environments.
  • Currently, most virtual reality environments are visual experiences, but some simulations include additional sensory information.
  • Immersive virtual reality has developed in recent years with the improvement of technology and is increasingly addressing the five senses within a virtual realm.
  • Artists have been exploring the possibilities of these simulated and virtual realities with the expansion of the discipline of cyberarts, though what constitutes cyberart continues to be up for debate.
  • Environments such as the virtual world of Second Life are generally accepted, but whether or not video games should be considered art remains undecided.

• Installation

  • The genre incorporates a broad range of everyday and natural materials, as well as new media such as video, sound, performance, and immersive virtual reality.
  • Another emerging method of installation art is immersive virtual reality.
  • By using virtual reality as a medium, the experience can be completely immersive, allowing the spectator to 'visit' the representation the artist creates.
  • An emerging method of installation art is immersive virtual reality, in which the spectator can 'visit' the representation that the artist creates.

• Digital Art

  • The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and music/sound art, while new forms (such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality) have become recognized as artistic practices.
  • Another kind of digital video art is 3D computer graphics, where the screen becomes a window into a virtual environment of arranged objects that are "photographed" by the computer.

• Still Life Painting

  • Virtually all still lifes had a moralistic message, usually concerning the brevity of life.
  • In reality, bouquets of flowers in vases were not at all common in houses at the time; even the very rich tended to display flowers one by one in delftware tulip holders.

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • Jade has been used in virtually all periods of Chinese history, and the earliest jades of the Neolithic Period were often quite simple and unornamented.
  • Jade has been used in virtually all periods of Chinese history and generally accords with the style of decorative art characteristic of each period.

• Germany and the United States

  • Realism is the attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in an objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation.
  • Realism in the visual arts and literature is the general attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation.
  • As such, the approach inherently implies a belief that such reality is ontologically independent of man's conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, and beliefs, and thus can be known to the artist, who can in turn represent this "reality" faithfully.

• Neue Sachlichkeit

  • Use of collage in these works became a compositional principle to blend reality and art, as if to suggest that to record the facts of reality was to go beyond the most simple appearances of things.
  • Other verists, like Christian Schad, depicted reality with a clinical precision, which suggested both an empirical detachment and intimate knowledge of the subject.
  • Often, psychological elements were introduced in his work, which suggested an underlying unconscious reality.

• Impressionism

  • Impressionist artists relaxed the boundary between subject and background so that the effect of an impressionist painting often resembles a snapshot, a part of a larger reality captured as if by chance.
  • The development of Impressionism can be considered partly as a reaction by artists to the challenge presented by photography, which seemed to devalue the artist's skill in reproducing reality.
  • In spite of this, photography actually inspired artists to pursue other means of artistic expression, and rather than compete with photography to emulate reality, impressionists sought to express their perceptions of nature and modern city life.
  • Camille Pissarro was a stylistic forerunner of Impressionism known for his landscapes and for capturing the daily reality of village life.

• Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

  • In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually.
  • Postmodernism postulates that many, if not all, apparent realities are only social constructs and are therefore subject to change.
  • In particular it attacks the use of sharp binary classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial; it holds realities to be plural and relative, and to be dependent on who the interested parties are and the nature of these interests.
  • Many people began to re-conceptualize the term "race" as a social construct - meaning that it has no inherent biological reality, but is a classification system that's been constructed or invented for societal purposes. following the Second World War, evolutionary and social scientists were acutely aware of how beliefs about race had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery, and genocide.

• American Painting: The Ashcan School

  • Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the grit and reality of daily life, American Realism presented a breakthrough—introducing Modernism, and what it means to be in the present.
  • It was their frequent, although not total, focus upon poverty and the daily realities of urban life that prompted American critics to consider them to be on the fringe of Modern art.