SCOPE OF

ARTS
MARY FRANCE L. MALTO
BSED 1-ENGLISH
ACCORDING TO MANAOIS:
General Dimension of Arts

Fine Arts or Practical Arts or

Independent Arts Useful or Utilitarian
Arts
✓ Fine Arts are made primarily
for AESTHETIC ENJOYMENT
through the senses, especially
visual and auditory.
✓ Music, painting, sculpture,
✓ Industrial arts, applied and
architecture, literature, dance
and drama.
✓ Practical arts are intended
for PRACTICAL USE. It is
the development of raw
materials for utilitarian
purposes.
household art, civic arts,
commercial arts, graphic
arts, agricultural art,
business art, distributive art
and fishery art.
ACCORDING TO CUSTODIOSA
SANCHEZ (2002)
Visual Drama
Arts

Literature ART Theatre

S
Musi Dance
c
 VISUAL ARTS
-things we perceive
with our eyes
• PLASIC ARTS
• GRAPHIC ARTS
• Fields of visual art for which
• Painting, drawing,
materials are organized into
photography, graphic
three dimensional forms such
process (printing)
as structural architecture,
commercial art,
landscape architecture, city
mechanical process
physical planning and interior
• Forms and symbols are arranging, sculpture, crafts,
recorded in two industrial design, dress and
dimensional surface. costume design and theatre
JOSEFINA ESTOLAS (1995)
ARTS
MAJOR ARTS
MINOR ARTS
❑ Painting
❑ Decorative arts
❑ Architecture
❑ Popular Arts
❑ Sculpture
❑ Graphic Arts
❑ Literature
❑ Plastic Arts
❑ Music
❑ Industrial Arts
❑ Dance
 Visual Arts (Graphic Arts, Plastic Arts)

Performing Arts (Theater, Play, Dance,

Music)

A Literary Arts (short story, novel, poetry,

R drama)

Popular Arts (Film, Newspaper, Magazine, Radio,

T Television)

S Gustatory Art of the Cuisine

(Food Preparation, Beverage, Preparation)

Decorative Arts or Applied

Arts (Beautification of Houses, offices,
cars, and other structure)
PANIZO AND RUSTIA (1995)

• Classified arts into two major division.

According According
to to
Purpose Media and Forms
• Arts that are classified according to purpose fall into 5
categories:

PRATICAL ARTS OR USEFUL ARTS

➢ Are directed to produce artifacts and utensils for the satisfaction of
human needs.
EXAMPLE:
Handicrafts( Basket weaving, mat weaving, etc)
Embroidery
Ceramics
Iron and metal crafts
Tin can Manufacturing
LIBERAL ARTS
• Directed toward intellectual growth.

EXAMPLE:
Study of Philosophy, Psychology, literature,
mathematics and sciences.
FINE ARTS
• Focused towards creative activity for the
contemplation of the mind and upliftment of the spirit.

EXAMPLE:
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture
MAJOR ARTS
• Characterized by actual and potential
expressiveness.

EXAMPLE
Music
Poetry
Sculpture
MINOR ARTS
• Concerned with practical uses and purposes.

EXAMPLE
Interior Decoration
Porcelain arts
• Arts that are classified according to Media and Forms are divided
into Five types:
• PLASTIC ARTS
– Works which exist in physical space and perceived by the sense of sight.
• KINETIC ARTS
– Involve the element of rhythm.
• PHONETIC ARTS
– Utilizes sound and words as medium of expression.
• PURE ARTS
– Take only one medium of expression like sound in music and color in
painting.
• MIXED ARTS
– Take more than one medium such as opera which combines music,
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