Portal:Fine Arts
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Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, and even disciplines such as history and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generations.
Visual arts covers the theory, philosophy, aesthetics, study and teaching of the visual arts; along with professional and economic aspects of art.
Architecture is the process of planning, designing and construction; usually in the form of buildings.
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Drawing, design and illustration is the branch of the visual arts that operates in two dimensions, using instruments such as graphite pencils, pen and ink, wax crayons and chalk.
Painting is the branch of visual arts that largely operates in two dimensions, involving the application of paint or similar media to a surface.
Print media covers the two-dimensional visual arts auch as print making, etching, engraving and lithography.
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Art in different forms
Decorative arts is the traditional term for the design and manufacture of functional objects; often categorized in opposition to the "fine arts" which generally have no function other than to be seen.
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Arts in general covers subjects such as competitions, exhibitions, patronage an similar ancillary aspects of art.