FORMS, STYLES , AND

ARTS PRACTICES IN
CONTEMPORARY ART
CATEGORIES OF ART
Fine Art - fine art is believed to
transcend average human works
and may be produced by only
the best artist with unique
sensibilities and academic
training.
One definition of fine art museums,
performed in theaters , or screened in art
house cinemas. Fine art including
painting, sculpture , and architecture in
the early and mid – nineteenth century in
Western industrialized nations. It was
heavily influenced by Greek, Roman, and
Italian Renaissance art.
 Popular art
 is the product of popular culture which
appeals to a broad mass audience, it is a
category widely circulated in magazines ,
comics, television, shows, advertising , folk
art, tattoos, fashion, furniture, graffiti, street
art, video games, posters, websites,
calendars, greeting, cards, dolls, souvenirs,
toys, movies, pop song, and snapshots and
commercial photography.
Craft
refers to specific media, including
ceramics, glass, jewelry, weaving,
and woodworking. Craft usually
involves making objects rather
than images, although craft may
involve surface decoration.
MEDIUM BASED
CLASIFICATION OF ART FORMS
1.Visual arts- are works created primarily
visual perception.
 classified as two –dimensional
art(painting, mixed media, graphic
arts) and three-dimensional
arts(sculpture, jewelry, furniture,
monuments)
2. Architecture
 refers to a man made environment
created as a space for human
habitation and as a setting for
rituals. Architecture is more than just
the art and science of erecting
buildings for it strives to create the
ideal environment for any human
activity.
3. Music
is a sound and silence organized based on
time, the common elements of music are
pitch(which governs melody and
harmony), rhythm( its associated concepts
of tempo, meter and articulation),
dynamics (loudness and softness) and the
sonic qualities of timbre and texture
(also referred to as the color of a musical
sound)
4. Theater

is a collaborative form of art that

use live performers to present
something about the human
condition or an experience or a
real or imagined event before a
live audience in a specific place.
5. Photography

is the technique of capturing optical

images on light sensitive's surfaces.
Photography is about framing a
scene, composition and lighting ,
and recording that moment with the
use of camera.
Fine art photography
imbues photo with an artistic statement and
selective vision of reality.
Photojournalism- provide a documentary
visual account of specific subject, and events,
literally representing object reality rather than
the subjective intent of the photographer.
Commercial photography
is focused on creating idealized
images of products and service
for the purpose of advertising ,
including food and fashion
photography.
6. Cinema
is aesthetic communication through
the design of time and three-
dimensional space into two-
dimensional images with sound. Film
and video are essentially photographs
shot in sequence to give the illusion
of movement.
7. Broadcast art
is the distribution of audio and or
video content or other messages to
a dispersed audience via any
electronic mass communications
medium such as television , radio
and the internet.
8. Digital art
is a comprehensive term for
any manifestation of arts
where a computer or digital
technology has been utilized
in its creation .
9. Installation
is an art piece usually of mixed
media (mixing of art materials and
forms in creating an artworks) that
is organized for and placed in a
specific space for a temporary
period.