What Are Applied Arts?
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Applied Arts are a consequence of the appearance of the term Fine Arts, based on common technical knowledge.
Later, in the case of Applied Arts, technique would be transformed into technology, which would now make it share
territory with Engineering.
The concepts applied, functional, industrial or decorative arts are synonyms. All of them refer to products whose
aesthetics or plastics are subject to their function.
· Examples of applied arts: Functional architecture, journalistic photography, design, illustration...
· Examples of non-applied arts: Monumental architecture, artistic photography.
In contrast to the Fine Arts, it is said that the object of the Applied Arts would not be the prioritization of Beauty to
satisfy the elitist sensation of aesthetic enjoyment desired at the time, but on the contrary, it sought to generate
well-being in the practical work of life. life of individuals in society.
Traditionally, in most societies art has combined practical and aesthetic functions, but in the 18th century in the
Western world art began to be distinguished as a purely aesthetic value that also had a practical function. The fine
arts (in French beaux arts)—literature, music, dance, painting, sculpture and architecture—focus their interest on
aesthetics. Those considered decorative arts, or applied arts, such as ceramics, metalwork, furniture, tapestry and
enamel are usually arts of a utilitarian nature and for a certain time were degraded to the rank of trades. Since only
the main visual arts were taught at the Paris School of Fine Arts, the term has sometimes been used narrowly to
refer only to drawing, painting, architecture and sculpture.
CLASSIFICATION OF APPLIED ARTS
PHOTOGRAPHY: Photography is the art and technique of obtaining lasting images due to the action of light. It is
the process of capturing images and fixing them on a light-sensitive material medium.
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture is the art and technique of projecting and designing buildings, other structures and spaces that form
the human environment.
THE DRAWING
It is the graphic representation, using a single color, that is, the aspects that every image presents: shape and
volume. Drawing is the basic technique of all plastic arts. Behind every painting, sculpture, design, etc.,
THE SCULPTURE
Sculpture is the art responsible for creating three-dimensional figures, so that artists use multiple techniques and
materials.
Sculpture is the art of modeling, carving and working in clay, stone, wood, metal or other convenient material,
representing in volume, figures of people, animals or other objects of nature.
utilitarian art
Utilitarian art is an artistic creation made with the fundamental elements of
composition and technique, in addition to being a practical, useful and functional
object. Art has always had uses, just not always of a pragmatic nature .
Classification of utilitarian art
Art, depending on the purpose it is proposed, can be useful or noble; useful or utilitarian is called that which is
aimed at providing utility, comfort; Noble art is called that which, regardless of all utility, manifests aesthetic
values, objectifying them, that is, giving them sensible material form. The first form of art, utilitarian, corresponds
to industrial art that creates useful objects, in which a certain beauty can also be expressed; Ceramics,
blacksmithing, goldsmithing, upholstery, cabinetmaking, embossing, mosaic, etc. This form of art also usually
encompasses any manifestation of a skill performed in a more or less perfect way, such as culinary art, calligraphic
art, among others. Fine arts have been classified following various criteria, some depending on the sense in which
they are perceived, they are divided into. Arts of hearing (Music and poetry), arts of sight (Architecture, painting,
sculpture and drawing) and mixed arts (Dance, theater and opera) Depending on the degree of imitation they make
of nature, it has been thought that they are: Essentially creative (Architecture, music and poetry), essentially
imitators (Sculpture and painting), and arts that participate in the creative desire and the imitator (Dance, theater
and opera).
functional art
Functional art is a twist and is the counterpart of what predominates in art today, of the conceptual and the electronic, of the
impersonal and the mechanical. The use of traditional and artisanal craft techniques within art produces a dissociation of the
same technique by not producing pieces related to the chores of the people. But it is this same production of everyday
objects that allows for the possibility that pieces that can be found inside a museum can be found inside houses, inside our
drawers and carried on our bodies.
