The invention of cinema constituted a historical turning point in the world of art, and it was called the seventh art since its emergence and joining the six arts, namely architecture, music, painting, sculpture, poetry and dance, after many attempts in history to collect the six arts and unify them in one art, this became possible with the emergence of cinema, especially with the development of video technologies and the possibility of combining drawings and colorful shapes that move with music, poetry and dialogue.
Throughout history, there have been many and lots of attempts to collect and unify a number of arts in one artwork, due to the strength of their combined effect on the senses of the recipient, who communicates with the artwork in its various senses, but few of these attempts have reached to gather most of the arts together, including:
Religious rituals in the temples of ancient civilizations:
These rituals were held within a huge and solemn carnival. The participants wore the most beautiful ornate and colorful clothes and performed dances that express the celebration of the gods within a solemn atmosphere. Most of them are gestural movements and may be accompanied by rhythmic music, and poems that are appropriate for the celebration are recited.
Greek theatre:
It depended on the decoration of the place through sculpture, decorations and colorful pictures, in the costumes and masks of the actors, drawing on faces, and music that relied on the fast rhythm with the presence of percussion instruments.
Church rituals:
Where it is held within the ecclesiastical atmosphere, whether eastern or western, to finally reach the opera.. and many more..
This is confirmed by Dr. Tharwat Okasha, saying: “All arts tend to unite together, and often converge to complement one another… This work was first embodied in the Greek drama that combined poetry, singing, music and pantomime against a background of scenes painted by plastic artists .. All arts converged in both the opera and ballet models, but they did not reach the wonderful level of balance and integration… Today, cinema is at the forefront to combine all these arts, achieving coordinated and comprehensive artistic work.”
In its infancy, cinema was a silent visual art that showed moving pictures without a sound, such as the films “Paula Negri” and “Rudolph Valentino” “Charlie Chaplin” in its early days. Until the discovery of the substance “Selenium”, which transforms sound waves into light waves and then turns these into sound, cinema began its giant steps in assembling the visual and audio arts, and cinema became a means to achieve perfection for all arts, as cinema broke the barriers of time and space, carrying the most wonderful works of art between all over the world.. after the birth of cinema and its development to become a speaking and then colored, it turned into a crucible for collecting arts, whether in representative films or in animated films and with puppets. The cooperation of arts in cinematic works contributed to the development of plastic arts, so the arts combined in cinematic work, which gave way to the emergence of trends cinematography is independent of the plastic arts. Rather, it has become a pioneer for these trends. Thus, we see the art of photography and sculpture resort to cinema under the slogan of cinematic art.
Says.Dr. Afif Al-Bahansi: “The unity between the arts is essential, meaning that art, whether it is formal or vocal, is an attempt to create a new beauty that is added to the beauty of nature, which has a beauty that is composed of form, movement and sound as well. But the conditions of growth and specialization prepared the elements of this unity, which prompted artists to re-assemble these elements into a work of art composed of kinetic, sound, formal and light arts, such as theater and cinema.
The artist in it tries to play together the role of director, photographer, composer and decorated artist in order to achieve a solid unity in building his artistic work.
Cinema came to bring together all the arts and devote the necessity of art to documenting most of the historical, social and even artistic stages. By returning to some films, we can know a specific era of history with all its intellectual, social and cultural stages, and even the customs and traditions that prevailed at that stage.
References:
Sorio, Etienne, corresponding to the arts, translated by Badr Al-Din Al-Qasim.
Okasha, Dr. Tharwat, encyclopedia of art history.
Dr. Afif Al Bahnasy, from modernity to postmodernism in art.
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