Classifying Artworks Flashcards
According to Manaois: Two General Dimensions of Arts
FINE ARTS OR INDEPENDENT ARTS
PRACTICAL ARTS/ USEFUL/ UTILITARIAN ARTS
made primarily for aesthetic enjoyment
- e.g. music, painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, dancing & drama
FINE ARTS OR INDEPENDENT ARTS
for practical use (for the common good of the many)
- e.g. industrial art, applied or household art, civic art, commercial art, graphic art, agricultural art, fishery art..
PRACTICAL ARTS/ USEFUL/ UTILITARIAN ARTS
According to Josefina Estolas
• Arts grouped according to
Major and Minor Arts
painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, and dance
Major Arts
decorative arts, popular arts, graphic arts, plastic arts & industrial arts
Minor arts
GROUPING THE ARTS (Estolas et al)
Visual Arts Performing Arts Literary Arts Popular Arts Gustatory Art of the Cuisine Decorative Arts
Graphic Arts
Plastic Arts
Visual Arts
theater, play, dance & music
Performing Arts
short stories, novels, poetry and dramas
Literary Arts
film, newspaper, magazine, radio, television
Popular Arts
involves skill in food and beverage preparation
Gustatory Art of the Cuisine
visual objects produced for beautifying houses, offices, cars and other structures
Decorative Arts
Different Forms of Art on the Basis of medium
Arts can be
Visual
Auditory
Combined
medium that can be seen and which occupy space
Visual Arts
Visual Arts into 2 classes
Two dimensional arts
Three-dimensional arts
painting, drawing,
printmaking, photography
Two-dimensional arts
sculpture, architecture, landscape, community planning, industrial designs, crafts like ceramics and furniture
Three-dimensional arts
We perceive arts with our eyes classified into two groups
Graphic Arts
Visual Arts
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
Graphic Arts
process of applying pigment to a surface to secure effects involving forms and colors
Painting
processes for making multi-reproduction of graphic works
- involve the preparation of a master image of the drawing or design on some durable material
- classified by the nature of the surface from which the printing is done:
Graphic Processes
Graphic Processes
Relief Printing
Intaglio Printing
Surface Printing
unwanted portions of design are cut away on the master image
- the printed image is formed by the remaining surfaces
- e.g. linoleum cuts, woodcuts, wood engravings
Relief Printing
a method of printing from a plate on which incised lines, which carry the ink, leave a raised impression
Intaglio Printing
Intaglio printings
Dry Point
Etching
Engraving
artist draws directly on a metal plate
Dry point
drawings or designs on metal plates covered with wax
Etching
done on a metal plate with a cutting tool called a barin, which leaves a V-shaped trough; designs entirely composed of lines and/ or dots
Engraving
printing is done from a flat (plane) surface
Surface printing
Surface Printings
Lithography
Silkscreen
printing from a flat stone; based on the repulsion between grease and water
Lithography
silk is stretched over a rectangular frame and unwanted portions in the design are blocked out
Silkscreen
includes designing of books, advertisements, signs, posters, and other displays to promote sale or acceptance of product, service or idea
Commercial Art
developed by commercial printers for rapid, large- quantity reproduction of words and pictures in one or more colors
Mechanical Processes
a chemical-mechanical process by which images are produced on sensitized surfaces by
action of light
Photography
includes all fields of the visual arts in which materials are organized into 3- dimensional forms
Plastic Arts