Artistic Arts

The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
A skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice.
A diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), and expressing side meanings.

MEANING OF AESTHETICS

Aesthetics(or esthetics) - a term derived from the Greek word" aisthesis" meaning "perception" -is the branch of philosophy that is devoted to the study of art and beauty.
There is no universally accepted definition of art. Although commonly used to describe something of beauty, or a skill which produces an aesthetic result, DEFINITION OF BEAUTY
A combination of qualities that delights the aesthetic senses - that is to say, the senses concerned with the appreciation of beauty.
DEFINITION OF SCULPTURE
The art of making three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood, or by casting metal or plaster.
DEFINITION OF ARTIST
A person who creates paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby or who practises or performs any of the creative arts.
DEFINITION OF CRAFT
An activity involving skillin making things by hand, [Sounds like it includes art!]

HOW IS ART CLASSIFIED

1. Fine Arts
   This category includes those artworks that are created primarily for aesthetic reasons ('art for art's sake') rather than for commercial or functional use. Designed for its uplifting, life-enhancing qualities,fine arttypically denotes the traditional, Western European 'high arts', such as:
   •Drawing
   Using charcoal,chalk,crayon,pastel or with pencil or pen and ink. Two major applications include:illuminated manuscripts(c.600-1200) andbook illustration.
   •Painting
   Using oil,watercolour,gouache,acrylics,ink and wash, or the more old-fashioned tempera or encaustic paints. For an explanation of colourants, see:Colour in painting and colour Pigments.
   •Printmaking
   Using simple methods like woodcuts or stencils, the more demanding techniques often graving,etching and lithography, or the more modern forms like screen-printing, foil imaging or giclee prints
   •Sculpture
   In bronze,stone,marble,wood, or clay.
   Another type of Western fine art, which originated in China, iscalligraphy: the highly complex form of stylized writing.
2. Visual Arts
   Visual art includes all the fine arts as well as new media and contemporary forms of expression such as Assemblage, Collage,Conceptual, Installation and Performance art, as well as photography, (see also:Is Photography Art?) and film-based forms like video art and animation, or any combination thereof. Another type, often created on a monumental scale is the new environmental land art.
   3. Plastic Arts
   The term plastic art typically denotes three-dimensional works employing materials that can be moulded, shaped or manipulated (plasticized) in some way: such as, clay, plaster, stone, metals, wood (sculpture), paper (origami) and so on. For three-dimensional artworks made from everyday materials
   4. Decorative arts
   this category traditionally denotes functional but ornamental art forms, such as works in glass, clay, wood, metal, or textile fabric. This includes all forms of jewellery and mosaic art, as well as ceramics, (exemplified by beautifully decorated styles of ancient pottery notably Chinese and Greek Pottery) furniture, furnishings,stained glass and tapestry art.
   5. Performance Arts
   This type refers to public performance events. Traditional varieties include, theatre, opera, music, and ballet. Contemporary performance art also includes any activity in which the artist's physical presence acts as the medium. Thus it encompasses, mime, face or body painting, and the like. A hyper-modern type of performance art is known as Happenings.
   . Applied arts
   this category encompasses all activities involving the application of aesthetic designs to everyday functional objects. While fine art provides intellectual stimulation to the viewer,applied art creates utilitarian items (a cup, a couch or sofa, a clock, a chair or table) using aesthetic principles in their design .Folk artist predominantly involved with this type of creative activity. Applied art includes architecture,computer art, photography, industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, as well as all decorative arts. Noted styles include,Bauhaus Design School, as well as Art Nouveau, and Art Deco. One of the most important forms of 20th applied art is architecture, notably supertall skyscraper architecture, which dominates the urban environment in New York, Chicago, Hong Kong and many other cities around the world

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