What are the categories of fine arts?

Fine arts can be divided into two categories according to their uses, namely pure fine arts and arts and crafts.

Pure art is a kind of pure appreciation art, such as oil painting, Chinese painting and printmaking.

Arts and crafts refers to the plastic arts that beautify daily necessities and living environment. Its outstanding feature is the combination of material production and beauty creation, with practicality as the main purpose and aesthetic characteristics, and it is one of the plastic arts. It also refers to all kinds of handicrafts made with artistic skills, which are combined with practicality and have appreciation value. They usually have duality: they are both material products and spiritual aesthetics in different degrees.

In the classification of art, art is also called plastic art, visual art, space art and static art, which refers to the artistic activities carried out by artists using certain materials, such as color, paper, canvas, mud, stone, wood and metal. Create a visible plane or stereoscopic visual image to reflect the natural and social life and express the artist's thoughts and feelings. Therefore, art is also called "plastic arts" and "space arts".