Generally speaking, art can be divided into two types: ornamental art and practical art..

as far as ornamental art is concerned, it mainly includes painting and sculpture. And painting, because of the different material and tools it uses, can be divided into Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, printmaking, sketch and other painting types. Sculpture also has various forms such as round carving and relief, and the materials used are stone, wood, mud, gypsum and bronze.

Practical arts also include two categories: arts and crafts and architecture. Although there are different views on the concept of arts and crafts at home and abroad in China, according to the usual statement, arts and crafts include traditional handicrafts, modern industrial arts and commercial arts.

Traditional handicrafts such as jade carving, ivory carving, lacquerware, metal handicrafts, etc. Modern industrial art (or "industrial design") includes all applicable and beautiful daily necessities (such as cloth, ceramics, glassware, furniture, carpets, household appliances, etc.) to meet people's growing material and spiritual needs.

The reason why architecture also belongs to the scope of fine arts is determined by the duality of technology, science and art contained in architecture itself. Any building always stands on the earth with a material structure with a certain spatial shape, which inevitably has a problem of whether the shape is beautiful or not. In this sense, architecture, like sculpture, is a very concrete plastic arts.

expanding materials

in the past, from works of fine arts to artistic appreciation, most of them used simple and direct communication methods, and the significance of communication did not attract people's attention. This is mainly due to the limitations of productivity and scientific and technological level, which led to the backward communication function and failed to have a great impact on artistic activities.

In the last century, especially in recent decades, the rapid development of world science and technology has had a great impact on artistic activities. The development of electronic technology, satellite technology, computer technology and other high-tech technologies and their wide application in the field of culture and art have made great progress in the way and function of art communication.

It not only makes the film and television art become the most popular art style today, but also affects many of its forms of expression and communication to other art styles, and the superior functions of video technology are fully reflected.

Art communication has shown an increasingly important role and position in the field of contemporary art activities, which has a great influence on the communication form, scale, speed, cycle and proliferation of works of art, as well as the acceptance mode and appreciation interest of the recipients.

The acceptance of art, including the consumption, appreciation and criticism of art, is the end of artistic activities and the fundamental way for artists and works of art to finally realize their intrinsic values. The appreciation and criticism activities of art recipients have a strong subjective significance, which is not only the aesthetic cognition, interpretation and creation of artistic works, but also the spiritual exchange and dialogue with artists.

artistic acceptance can also give spiritual feedback to the artist and even the object world, thus realizing the connection between artistic activities and social activities, making artistic activities melt into the grand system of human social activities, and playing a powerful role in it.

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