Animation | Architecture |
Assemblage | Calligraphy |
Chalk Art | Collage |
Comics | Crafts |
Dance | Decollage |
Digital Art | Drawing |
Fashion | Film |
Flower Arrangement | Furniture |
Glass Art | Graphic Art |
Immersive Art | Installation Art |
Interior Design | Jewellery |
Landscape Art | Literature |
Mixed Media | Mosaics |
Music | Painting |
Performance Art | Photography |
Poetry | Posters |
Pottery | Printmaking |
Sculpture | Street Art |
Tattoo | Textile Art |
Theatre | Video Games |
Visual Art
Visual art is creative expression that is entirely visual without any other type of sensory experience. This is considered a primary type of art that has the greatest and longest traditions behind it.
Performing Art
Arts that are performed live at a time and place. These center around music, dance and theater but also include unique traditions such as stand-up comedy.
Literary Arts
Creative works based on writing or spoken word.
Media Arts
Creative expression via media technology including film, video games and digital media such as photographs or podcasts.
Decorative Arts
Creative production of useful items, crafts or decorations.
Commercial Art
Art that is produced to commercial constraints. This can be contrasted with the free expression of fine art. The following are examples of art forms that are often or always commercial.
Traditional Art
Art that is passed from generation to generation as a tradition such that it is bound to a traditional culture.
Art vs Fine Art
The term fine art implies training or immersion in the culture surrounding an art. For example, a child's painting is art but a trained artist's painting is fine art. Some arts have much more depth of training and culture than others. Any art that is taught at university is certainly a fine art. It is not necessary for an artist to have formal training to produce fine art but they must be versed in art theory and methods, often this occurs through socialization with other artists.Art vs Design
Art is produced from the free expression of the artist without commercial constraint. Design is based on constraints such as requirements.Art vs Craft
It can be argued that real art has no function beyond aesthetics such that functional things such as ceramics that are intended to be used are a craft.The Seven Art Forms
Traditionally, art is divided into 7 forms: painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, performing and film.Summary
Art forms are a means of expression that are independent of style or tradition such that they exist across cultures.
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Definition | Means of artistic expression that are independent of style, interpretation or significance. | |
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