What are the four categories of plastic arts?

Plastic arts include painting, sculpture, photography and calligraphy.

1. Painting is the most basic and expressive art form in plastic arts. Painting does not freely express dynamic life and objects like novels, plays and movies, nor does it appeal to people's hearing in the extension of time like music. Painting is an art that relies on vision to create and feel, and it is an aesthetic materialization process that follows the law of beauty and uses artistic means to solidify, process, refine and sublimate the dynamic objective world and physical objects.

2. Sculpture is a three-dimensional artistic image made directly from materials, which belongs to plastic arts. It tries to express the three-dimensional image existing in three-dimensional space, and people can appreciate the works from different angles and distances, thus obtaining different aesthetic feelings.

3. Photography is a modern plastic art. The unique aesthetic characteristics of photography mainly focus on the unity of documentary and artistry.

4. Calligraphy is the art of writing. In the East, calligraphy has always been as important as painting. In the west, calligraphy, as an art, appeared after the Renaissance, but due to the language system, text structure and characteristics, it still did not pay as much attention to calligraphy as in the East.