According to Custodiosa Sanchez (2002), arts consist of visual arts, literature, drama and theatre,

music, and dance.

 Visual arts are those that we perceive with our eyes.
They may be classified into two groups,namely:
 Graphic arts - Graphic arts include painting, drawing photography,graphic process (printing)
commercial art (designing of books, advertisements, signs, posters, and other displays) are
recorded on a mechanical process, in which portrayals of forms and materials two
dimensional surface. A category of fine arts, it covers a broad range of visual artistic
expression, typically two dimensional i.e. produce on a flat surface.It further includes
calligraphy, photography, painting, typography, computer graphics, and bindery.
covers any form of visual artistic representation
- portrayals of forms and symbols are recorded on a 2-di surface
- all processes & products of the printing industry

 Plastic - Plastic arts of visual arts for which are organized into three-dimensional form such as
structural architecture, architecture(gardens, parks, playgrounds, golf course beautification),
city physical anning and interior arranging (design of wallpaper,furniture), sculpture, crafts
industrial design,dress and costume design, and theatre design. Art forms which involve
physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or.
Ceramics.
includes all fields of the visual arts in which materials are organized into 3- dimensional
forms

Josefina Estolas (90s) grouped arts into:

 Major arts- and painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music and dance.
 Minor arts- include the decorative arts, popular arts, graphic arts, plastic and industrial arts.

She also grouped arts into:

Visual arts - (graphic arts, plastic arts),
Performing arts - (theatre, play, dance, music),
Literacy arts - (short story, novel, poetry, drama),
Popular arts - (film, newspaper, radio, television);
Gustatory art of the cuisine - (food preparation, magazine, beverage) and
Decorative arts or applied arts - (beautification of houses, offices, cars and other structures).

Manaois tow general dimensions of arts:

 Fine arts or Independent arts - made primarily for aesthetic enjoyment through the senses
especially visual and auditory. Ex. Music, painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, dance
and drama.
 Practical arts or Useful or Utilitarian arts - for practical use (for common good of the many)
e.g. industrial art, applied or household art, civic art, commercial art, graphic art, agriculture
and fishery art.

Different forms of art on the basis of MEDIUM

1. Visual - 2 classes > two dimensional and three-dimensional
2. Auditory
3. Combined

 Dimensional or two dimensional - painting, drawing, printmaking, photography

 Three-dimensional - sculpture, architecture, landscape, community planning,
industrial designs, crafts, ceramic and furniture.