CLASSIFICATION OF

ART FORMS
 1. VISUAL ARTS
• Are those forms
perceived by the eyes,
like drawing, painting,
sculpture, architecture
and the decorative arts.
• They are also called
spatial arts because
artworks produced
under this genre
occupy space.
 Visual art is divided into two:
• a. Graphic Arts – are those
visual arts that have length
and width; thus they are
also called two-dimensional
arts. They are described as
flat arts because they are
seen on flat surface.
 Examples:
Painting, printing,
drawing, sketching,
commercial art,
computer graphics,
and photography.
• b. Plastic Arts - are
those visual arts that
have length, width, and
volume; thus, they are
also called three-
dimensional arts.
 Examples:

Sculpture, architecture,
landscape, architecture,
city planning, interior
design, set design,
theatre design, industrial
design, handicrafts,
 2. Audio – visual arts
• Are those forms perceived
by both ears (audio) and
eyes (video). They are called
performing arts inasmuch as
the artists render a
performance in front of an
audience.
 Examples:

•Music (vocal,
instrumental, and
mixed), dance, drama
or stage play
 3. Literary arts
•Are those presented
in the written mode
and intended to be
read.
 Examples:
These include prose
(short stories, novels,
essays, and plays) and
poetry (narrative poems,
lyric poems, and
dramatic poems.
• Prose forms differ from
verse or poetic forms in
that the former are in
paragraph (composed of
sentences) form, while
the latter are in in stanza
(composed of lines) form.