Art Forms

CATEGORIES OF ART
FINE ARTS
Fine art is a Western category of refined objects considered to be
among the supreme cultural achievements of the human civilizations.
PAINTING
ARCHITECTURE
SCULPTURE
Cagayan – born Alfredo and Manilan Isabel Aquilazan,

international artist-couple, made this hanging sculpture
out of a found boat, inverted and constructed with
cardboard for their project Another Country on the
subject of migration, dislocation, diaspora, adopting/
adapting and identity
SCULPTURE
PHOTOGRAPHY
POPULAR ART
Popular art is the product of popular culture which
appeals to a broad mass audience. Art produced via
popular culture is more accessible, inexpensive,
entertaining, commercial, political, naive or colorful than
fine art. This, however, has given rise to the notion that
popular art is lowly, pang-masa, bakya or jologs.
Grand Prize winner at the 2014 Pinoy Ultimate Jeepney Art Competition organized by Resorts
World Manila in an effort to revive jeepney art and use it for tourism.
GRAFFITI
GREETING CARD
CRAFT
Craft refers to specific media, including ceramic,
glass, jewelry, weaving, and woodworking. Craft
usually involves making objects rather than images,
although craft may involve surface decoration.
The craft of bamboo shaving, known as singkaban, is a
popular festival ornament in the province of Bulacan.
Weaving
jewelry
MEDIUM-BASED
CLASSIFICATION OF ART
FORMS
VISUAL ARTS
Visual arts are works created primarily for visual
perception. They are classified according to
dimension.
TW0-DIMENSIONAL ART
Any artwork depicted on a flat surface, typically paintings, sketches, mixed
media, graphic arts, photographs or prints
VISUAL ARTS
TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART
VISUAL ARTS
TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART
THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART
Work that has volume and mass such as sculpture, jewelry, furniture, monument, assemblage
and fashion design
VISUAL ARTS
Three-DIMENSIONAL ART
VISUAL ARTS
Three-DIMENSIONAL ART
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture refers to man-made environments created as a space for
human habitation and as a setting for rituals.
Classifications:
1.Religious 3. industrial
2. Residential 4. commercial
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
MUSIC
Music is sound and silence organized based on time. The common elements of
music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and 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). At the formal level, music may be classical,
popular, independent, folk or indigenous.
folk indigenous
DANCE
Dance is an art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human
movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value and is
acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular
culture. Dance forms include ballet, folk, indigenous, street, modern, hip-hop
or popular.
ballet hip-hop ethnic/indigenous

THEATER
Theater is a collaborative form of art that uses live performers to present
something about the human condition or an experience of a real or imagined
event before a live audience in a specific place. It may take in a form of street
or protest theater, school plays, ritual performance, sarsuela, puppetry or
stand-up comedy.
Protest theater sarsuela puppetry

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is the technique of capturing optical images on light-sensitive
surfaces. Photography is about framing a scene, composition and lighting
and recording that moment with the use of a camera. Photography can be
classified into fine arts photography, photojournalism, and commercial
photography.
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Imbues photos with an artistic statement and selective vision of reality
PHOTOJOURNALISM
Provides a documentary visual account of specific subjects and events, literally representing
objective reality than the subjective intent of the photographer
COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Focused on creating idealized images of products and service for the purpose of
advertising, including food and fashion photography
CINEMA
Cinema is aesthetic communication through the design of time and
three-dimensional space into two-dimensional images with sound.
Forms: mainstream, short film in feature, exprimental, documentary,
indie
Short film Experimental film Indie

BROADCAST AND TELEVISIONAL
Broadcast is the distribution of audio and/or video content or other
messages to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass
communications medium.
Forms: radio, television, video-8, videoke, MTV, Youtube

BROADCAST AND TELEVISIONAL
DIGITAL ARTS AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED WORKS
Digital arts and computer-mediated works are
comprehensive terms for any manifestation of arts where
a computer or digital technology has been utilized in its
creation.
Forms: pexilated designs, virtual reality, animation, game
art
Pexilated designs
DIGITAL ARTS AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED WORKS
Virtual reality
INSTALLATION
Installation is an art piece usually of mixed media (mixing of art materials and
forms in creating an artwork) that is organized for and placed in a specific
space for a temporary period.
Example: site-specific works

INSTALLATION
LEEROY NEW’S ART INSTALLATION
AT THE PAOAY SAND DUNES IN
TIME-LAPSE

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Cagayan – born Alfredo and Manilan Isabel Aquilazan,

ballet hip-hop ethnic/indigenous

Protest theater sarsuela puppetry

Short film Experimental film Indie

Forms: radio, television, video-8, videoke, MTV, Youtube

Example: site-specific works

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