CLASSIFICATION OF ARTS

CLASSIFICATION OF ARTS FORMS

Visual Arts
•Graphic arts
•Plastic arts

Audio&Visual Arts
Literary Arts
 VISUAL ARTS
•Visual arts are those forms perceived
by the eyes
•Includes painting, sculpture, and
architecture.
•also called spatial arts because
artworks produced under this genre
occupy space
GRAPHIC ARTS
-those visual arts that have length and width;
thus they are also called two dimensional arts.
-describe as flat arts because they are seen on
flat surfaces
•GRAPHIC ARTS
examples: printing, painting,
drawing,sketching, commercial art,
mechanical processes, computer graphics,
and photography
VISUAL ARTS- GRAPHIC ARTS
• PLASTIC ARTS
-are those visual arts that have length ,
width,and volume: thus, they are called three
dimensional arts
-examples: sculpture, architecture, landscape,
architecture, city planning, and
set design
VISUAL ARTS-PLASTIC ARTS
•Audio-Visual arts are those forms perceived by
“both ears (audio) and eyes (videos).
•Also called performing arts
•Examples: music (vocal, instrumental, and mixed)
,dance (ethnologic, social and theatrical), and
drama tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, farce,
melodrama, etc.)
 LITERARY ARTS
• Literary arts are those presented in the written
mode and intended to be read.
• Examples: prose (short stories, novels, essays, and
plays) and poetry narrative poems, lyric poems, and
dramatic poems)
__________________1.) It is an art that can be all forms and that can be perceived by
the eyes.

_________________2.) This is called an art of space

_________________3.) This can be perceived by both eyes and ears. This sometimes
called performing arts.
_________________4.) This kind of arts is concentrated in written mode and intended
to be read.
_________________5.) It is the application of design and decoration to everyday objects
to make them aesthetically pleasing.
_________________6.) It is the application of pigment( color) on any flat two-
dimensional surfaces.
_________________7.) It is the carvoing, modelling, casting, constructing, and
assembling of materials