There are several classifications of fine arts.

Generally speaking, art can be divided into two kinds: decorative art and practical art.

As far as decorative arts are concerned, it mainly includes painting and sculpture. Painting, because of its different materials and tools, can be divided into Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, printmaking, sketch and other painting types. Sculpture also has various forms such as round carving and relief, and the materials used are stone, wood, mud, gypsum and bronze.

Practical arts also include arts and crafts and architecture. Although there are different views on the concept of arts and crafts at home and abroad, according to the usual statement, arts and crafts include traditional handicrafts, modern arts and crafts and commercial arts.

Jade carving, tooth carving, lacquerware, metal handicrafts and other traditional handicrafts. Modern industrial art (or "industrial design") includes all applicable and beautiful daily necessities (such as cloth, ceramics, glassware, furniture, carpets, household appliances, etc.). ) to meet people's growing material and spiritual needs.

The reason why architecture also belongs to the category of fine arts is determined by the duality of technology, science and art contained in architecture itself. Any building always stands on the earth as a material structure with a certain spatial form, which inevitably has a problem of whether the form is beautiful or not. In this sense, architecture, like sculpture, is a very figurative plastic arts.

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In the past, from art works to art appreciation, most of them used simple and direct communication methods, and the significance of communication did not attract people's attention. This is mainly due to the limitation of productivity and scientific and technological level, which leads to the backward communication function and fails to have a great impact on artistic activities.

In the past century, especially in recent decades, the rapid development of world science and technology has had a great impact on artistic activities. The development of electronic technology, satellite technology, computer technology and other high-tech technologies and their wide application in the field of culture and art have made great progress in the way and function of art communication.

It not only makes film and television art become the most popular art style today, but also affects its many forms of expression and communication with other art styles, and the superior function of video technology has been fully reflected.

Art communication has shown an increasingly important role and position in the field of contemporary art activities, which has a great influence on the form, scale, speed, cycle and proliferation of works of art, as well as the acceptance mode and appreciation interest of recipients.

The acceptance of art, including the consumption, appreciation and criticism of art, is the purpose of artistic activities and the fundamental way for artists and works of art to finally realize their intrinsic value. The appreciation and criticism activities of art recipients have strong subjective significance, which is not only the aesthetic cognition, interpretation and creation of artistic works, but also the spiritual exchange and dialogue with artists.

Art acceptance can also give spiritual feedback to the artist and even the object world, thus realizing the connection between artistic activities and social activities, making artistic activities melt into the grand system of human social activities and play a powerful role in it.

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