Generally speaking, the main basis for aestheticians to classify art types is the relationship between art and reality.

Introduction to Art:

There is no universally agreed definition of the concept of art, and concepts are constantly changing over time. Under the framework of Marxist theory, art is first of all a social phenomenon and social thing, belonging to the social ideology in the superstructure. It actively understands the world in its own unique way. In ancient Chinese and Western societies, the word art refers to various technical activities.

This technology is a unique form of practical production that is guided by human moral purposes and based on correct, rational, and true knowledge of things. The generally popular concept of art now adopts the European classification since the 18th century, which uses the category of "beauty" to govern various categories, referring to activities such as painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, dance, etc.

Throughout the historical concepts about art, it can be concluded that art has technical, aesthetic and formal characteristics. From the perspective of the objects involved in art, the subject of artistic creation is the artist, the recipients are people from all walks of life, the objective objects of artistic expression are society and nature, and the results of artistic creative activities are works of art.

The technical nature of art:

Art is technical. Generally speaking, in the West, the connotation of the word art has generally experienced changes from technical crafts containing knowledge and rules to spiritual aesthetic activities that rely on inspiration and intuition. Among them, art, as a technical activity containing rational knowledge, has gone through a long period of development and formed a basic concept in art theory, and as a spiritual activity that brings perceptual pleasure.

It is a concept that emerged in the mid-18th century and continued to be controversial in later generations. Specifically, the word "art" in today's English comes from the Latin ars, and "ars" comes from the Greek "τ?χυη". "τ?χυη" in ancient Greece, and "ars" in Rome and the Middle Ages, and even as late as the Renaissance, expressed the skills required to make certain objects.

As an art of technology and craftsmanship, it is rational, which is reflected not only in the fact that it requires people to master correct, rational and true knowledge of things, but also in the fact that it requires people to base their practical production activities on Above method and order. From ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and even the Renaissance, the most commonly accepted classifications are the seven liberal arts and the seven mechanical arts.