Which arts use language as their medium of expression?
Literature, poetry, theatre

Which arts include language, not as their primary medium of expression but sometimes as part of their work?
Music, graphic art, painting

Which arts are affected by language in the way they are taught or promoted?
Language can be applied to the teaching of basically all forms of art

To what extent can the arts be considered to be "language" themselves, metaphorically speaking? To what extent do you think that some of the arts gain their communicative power by being free of language and its confines?
To a very large extent, since both art and language is about expressing something and conveying a message. There are different types of languages as well, such as imagery and body language, which is used in literature, visual arts as well as dancing and theatre.

Some art forms gain their communative power by being free of language to a large extent, e.g. visual arts, dancing and music, since it enables the viewer to take part in the message without having to understand a specific language. Art forms such as literature, which depends fully on the use of actual words is of course dependent on language and would not benefit from freeing itself from it.

Are there concepts, named in language, that you think are extremely important - perhaps even essential - in discussing and evaluating the arts? Are there terms that are essential in teaching and learning within the arts?
The use of emotion and imagination, observation of and a will to understand and interpret the world and its inhabitants, communication

	Created by Melissa Lennartsson over 10 years ago

International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge Note on Language and concepts in the arts, created by Melissa Lennartsson on 01/04/2014.