LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 21:4 April 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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         Pammi Pavan Kumar, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.

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Art within Art:
Embodying Dance-Drama into the Visual World of Cinema

Elizabeth Baby, M.A., PGDTE

A work of art or an art piece is an artistic creation. It is usually regarded as works from literature and music in a wider sense, but these terms also apply to tangible, portable forms of visual art. It includes painting, sculpture, photography, film, etc. Marcel Duchamp (1915) critiqued the idea that the work of art should be a unique product of an artist’s labor, representational of their technical skill and artistic caprice. Theorists have argued that objects and people do not have a constant meaning, but their meanings are fashioned by humans in the context of their culture as they have the ability to make things mean or signify something.

Filmmaking is the process of producing a motion picture from an initial conception and research through scriptwriting, shooting and recording, editing, music work, animation and distribution to audience. It broadly refers to all types of creation like documentary, strains of theatre, literature in film or experimental practices. Cinematic images portray a particular world, the way in which objects and their backgrounds are put together for the camera are a crucial part of the aesthetics of cinema. There are many people who stoutly deny the possibility that film might be art. They say that film cannot be art for it does nothing but reproduce reality mechanically (Rudolph Arnheimer, 8).

Film can be seen as combining so many elements of different art forms to make one piece of art. What makes film great and exceed all other art forms is because it combines all of them in the amalgamation of which we call ‘cinema’. It cannot be said that it is the best art medium, but the most potent art medium has to encompass the imagination of the person experiencing the art and film sort of gives everything there for you on screen and in your ears. The art of performance has the ability to elevate the written material to a whole new height.

Most traditional Indian performance forms are characterized by distinct modes of embodied knowledge that increase in intensity with the degree of systematization present in their performative practices and also problematize the mind and body hierarchies that are inherent to most modern schemes of thought.

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Elizabeth Baby, M.A., PGDTE
Assistant Professor
PG Department of English
Yuvakshetra Institute of Management Studies
Palakkad, Kerala, India
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