Classification of Art

The various classifications of art include fine art, visual art, plastic art, performance art, applied art, and decorative art.

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, such as:

• Drawing : using charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel or with pencil or pen and ink.
• Painting : using oils, watercolour, gouache, acrylics, ink and wash, or the more old-fashioned tempera or encaustic paints. 
• Printmaking : using simple methods like woodcuts or stencils, the more demanding techniques of engraving, etching and lithography, or the more modern forms like screen-printing, foil imaging or giclee prints. 
• Sculpture : in bronze, stone, marble, wood, or clay.

Drawing with paint brush | Design by Freepik

Visual Arts

It includes 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
• Environmental art
• Contemporary forms of expression : assemblage, collage, conceptual, installation

Young female product photographer in studio | Design by Freepik

Plastic Arts

The term plastic art includes artworks that are molded and not necessarily plastic objects. This category consists of three-dimensional works like clay, plaster, stone, metals, wood, and paper (origami).

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Decorative Arts

This classification refers to 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.

Jewelry from natural gems | Design by Freepik

Performance Arts

This classification consists of an art form that refers to public performance events that occur mainly in the theater. Performance arts include:

• Traditional performance art – dance, theatre, opera, music, and ballet
• Contemporary performance art – mime
• Hyper-modern performance art  – happenings

Opening Dance The Bali Art Festival 2018 | pontas.id