Different Categories of Arts

Purpose of Arts
Artworks are categorized
 Recording Appearances
according to different criteria
 Etymology  Making the Invisible and most of the time are
Visible
dependent on the author and the
he word “art” is rooted  Communication critique. Using different book
from the 13 century
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 Delighting may refer to the evolution of
French word “art” which time in categorizing an artwork
means skills. it could be:  

a. Artificial – made by Anthropological- artworks are

human beings. defined and categorized according to
b. Inert- having no culture or country they originated, thus
skill. we have:
c. Artisan- instructor
or master of a human History of Arts 1. Pre-historic artworks
skill 2. Pre-communal or tribal artworks
Asian, Western, Arabian,
3. Mediterranean, French, Italian and
etc.

Anatomy of an Art Work

 Art Work
 Art Work
 Subject   Thematic- some reference would consider
 Artist  the philosophy, the principle, the medium
 Medium and Technique and technique employed by the artist in
 Purpose  categorizing their works in these reference
 The Viewer, Patron or Critique we could see the term;
 Impression of the viewer, Patron
and Critique 1. Expression, Baroque, Medieval, Realist,
Surrealism, and etc.
2. Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance,