Accepted Art Forms
The deepest power of art is to transcend indignities even in the midst of them. Anything can do it: a deeply felt song or dance, the written words of truth, paintings or photographs that change the familiar into the exceptional, dramas that tell hidden stories or designs that solve intractable problems. Everything offers a kind of freedom from a particular oppression, and so anything can be art, because freedom comes from the activity and not the product.
The qualification is not the work but the sincerity of its offering. The Indian poet Tagore said that the ‘ultimate measure’ of a person cannot be made on the easy moments, but rather on ‘where [s/he] stands at times of challenge and controversy’. The artist is brave before being skilled, because always their best work seeks to speak to humanity through whatever voice they choose.
The following are examples of art forms ArtVenture has funded:
- Arts & Craft
- Design
- Art Therapy
- Creative Writing
- Dance
- Embroidery
- Film (including documentaries)
- Graffiti
- Illustration
- Mural
- Music
- Opera
- Painting
- Performance Arts
- Photography
- Poetry
- Pottery
- Puppetry
- Radio Drama
- Sculpture
- Social Circus
- Story Telling
- Theatre
- Traditional Art
- Visual Arts