What are the four general categories of fine arts?

Painting, sculpture, design, and architecture.

1. Drawing

Drawing or Painting is technically the practice of using a surface as a support and then adding color to it. The surface can be paper or cloth, and the tools used to add color can be brushes, brushes, sponges, or strips of cloth.

The meaning of painting, in the context of artistic terms, also includes the use of this artistic act in conjunction with graphic, compositional and other aesthetic methods to achieve the concepts and meanings that the artist wishes to express.

Painting makes up the majority of the fine arts.

2. Sculpture

Sculpture, sculpture, refers to the beautification of the city or for the memorial significance of carving and shaping, with a certain moral, symbolic or hieroglyphic ornamental objects and monuments. Sculpture is a kind of plastic arts.

Also known as carving, is the carving, carving, molding three methods of creation of the general term. It refers to the use of a variety of plastic materials (such as plaster, resin, clay, etc.) or hard materials that can be carved and engraved (such as wood, stone, metal, jade, agate, aluminum, fiberglass, sandstone, copper, etc.).

To create a certain space of visible, touchable art images, to reflect social life, to express the artist's aesthetic feelings, aesthetic emotions, aesthetic ideal of art.

Through carving and engraving to reduce the carvable material, and plastic by adding plastic material to achieve the purpose of artistic creation.

3. Design

Design is the process of conveying a vision through rational planning, careful planning, and through various forms of feeling. Human beings transform the world through labor, create civilization, create material wealth and spiritual wealth, and the most basic, the most important creative activity is to make things.

Design is the pre-planning of creation activities, and any planning technology and planning process of creation activities can be understood as design.

4, architecture

Architecture is a collective term for buildings and structures. It is the art of human beings to use brick, stone, tile, wood, iron and other material materials to build or construct internal and external space in a fixed geographical location, used for living and activities.

Architectural art refers to the law of beauty, the use of architectural art unique artistic language, so that the architectural image of cultural value and aesthetic value, symbolic and formal beauty, reflecting the national and contemporary.

Taking its functional characteristics as a criterion, the art of architecture can be divided into monumental buildings, palaces and tombs, religious buildings, residential buildings, garden buildings, production buildings and other types.

On the whole, the art of architecture, like arts and crafts, is an art that combines practicality and aesthetics.

The essence of architecture is that human beings build living places for living and activities, so the practicality is the primary function of the building; only with the development of human practice, material and technological progress, the building more and more aesthetic value.

Expanded information:

European 17th century when the term "fine arts" began to be used, referring to the aesthetic significance of the activities and their products, such as painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, dance, etc.

There are also those who believe that the term "fine arts" should formally appear in the middle of the 18th century. 18th century industrial revolution, the scope of the fine arts has expanded, there are paintings, sculptures, arts and crafts, architectural art, etc. In the East, there are also the "fine arts" of the world.

The term began to be commonly used in China around the time of the May Fourth Movement. In recent decades, Europe and the United States have been less use of the term "fine arts", often with the word "art" in general.

The main categories of fine art include painting, sculpture, crafts, architecture, calligraphy, seal cutting, design, new media and photography. Each category can be subdivided into a number of subcategories based on the subject matter represented and the subject matter used.

Painting is one of the most important art forms in the plastic arts, which refers to the use of artistic language such as line, color and form, and the use of artistic means such as modeling, color and composition to create a static visual image in two-dimensional space (i.e., a plane) in order to express the author's aesthetic feelings.

There are many kinds of paintings, which can be divided into different categories from different perspectives. From the geographical point of view, painting can be divided into Oriental painting and Western painting; from the point of view of tools and materials, painting can be divided into ink painting, oil painting, fresco, printmaking, watercolor, watercolor and so on.

From the content of the subject matter, painting can be divided into figure painting, landscape painting, still life painting, animal painting, etc.; from the form of the work, painting can be divided into murals, yearbooks, comic strips, cartoons, propaganda paintings, oil paintings, blow-up paintings, illustrations and so on.

Different categories of painting forms, due to their different historical traditions, have their own unique forms of expression and aesthetic characteristics. Chinese painting, also known as guo hua, is a self-contained and unique system in the world of painting, and is the mainstream of the oriental painting system.

In terms of tools and materials, Chinese painting uses brushes and ink to paint on rice paper and silk, and it emphasizes ink and brushwork, focusing on modeling with ink and brushwork. In the method of expression, Chinese painting adopts a kind of scattered perspective.

In terms of the composition of the picture, Chinese painting emphasizes the interplay of poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, forming a unique beauty of form and content. Oil painting is a representative of Western painting, and it is the most influential type of painting art in the world.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Fine Arts