Classifications of Art

The various classifications of art include:

• fine art,
• visual art,
• plastic art,
• performance art,
• applied art 
• decorative art.
This category includes works of art that are created
primarily for aesthetic reasons.
 1.Fine Art

 This category includes works of art that are

created primarily for aesthetic reasons.

 It is helpful to note the word “fine” does

not indicate the quality of the artwork, but
rather, the purity of the discipline.

Fine arts include:

Drawing – charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, pencil, or pen
and ink
Painting

• Painting – oils,
watercolor,
gouache,
acrylics, ink and
wash, tempera,
or encaustic
paints.
Sculpture – bronze, stone, marble, wood, or clay
 2.Visual Art
• The visual arts include all the fine arts, in
addition to the following:
• New media – digital art, computer
graphics, computer animation, virtual art,
Internet art, interactive art, video games,
computer robotics, 3D printing, and art as
biotechnology
• Photography art
Mosaic
Digital art
Calligraphy – beautiful and stylized
handwriting
 Environmental art
 

Contemporary forms of expression –

 assemblage, collage,
conceptual, installation
 3. Plastic Art
 The term plastic art includes art works that are
molded and not necessarily plastic objects.
This category consists of three-dimensional
works like clay, plaster, stone, metals, wood
and, paper (origami).
Beaded art Hundreds of plastic cups
 4.Performance Art
• This classification consist of an art form that
refers to public performance events which
occur mostly in theatre, opera, music, and
ballet.
It includes:
 Contemporary performance art – mime
 Hyper-modern performance art  – happenings
 In the theater.
• poetry, music, dance, and painting.
 5.Applied Art
• This category encompasses the application of
aesthetic designs to everyday functional
objects.
• Applied arts are intended for the use of a
career.
• It includes architecture, computer art,
photography, industrial design, graphic design,
fashion design, and interior design.
• furniture, carpets, tapestry, embroidery, batik,
jewellery, precious metalwork, pottery,
goldsmithing, basketry, mosaic art, and
glassware). Illuminated manuscripts and later
book illustration are also classified as applied
arts.
 6.Decorative Art

• This classification refers to functional but

ornamental art forms, such as jewelry,
ceramics, mosaic art and other items that are
embellished by ornaments and other designs.
It also includes works in glass, clay, wood,
metal, textile fabric, furniture, furnishings,
stained glass and tapestry art.
 What are the 7 different forms of art?

• The traditional subdivision of the Arts, being

Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Literature,
Music, Performing, and Film.
• The Seven Liberal Arts, being grammar, logic,
rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and
astronomy