Applied Arts-

 

The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing. 

It combines aesthetics, design, consumer need, and finding practical solutions to problems. 

It is an area in which design and decoration come together to create objects and ideas that are both useful and beautiful. 

The applied arts are very distinct from fine art, where the aim is to produce an aesthetic that is beautiful for its own sake or that consciously places itself within an artistic tradition or movement. 

And although the boundary between the two areas is often blurred, it can be summarized in the following way: fine art is essentially an intellectual pursuit, whereas applied arts focuses on utility and usefulness.

Applied Arts- Book cover design and illustration, cartoon, poster, advertisements for newspaper, magazine, hoardings, T.V., photography, computer graphics, animation, printing processes. 

The term "applied art" refers to the application (and resulting product) of artistic design to utilitarian objects in everyday use. Whereas works of fine art have no function other than providing aesthetic or intellectual stimulation to the viewer, works of applied art are usually functional objects .

Works of applied art comprise two different types: 

standard machine-made products which have had a particular design applied to them, to make them more attractive and easy-to-use; 

and individual, aesthetically pleasing but mostly functional, craft products made by artisans or skilled workers.

 Artistic disciplines that are classified as applied arts, include industrial design, fashion design, interior design, and graphic art and design (including computer graphics), as well as most types of decorative art (eg. furniture, carpets, tapestry, embroidery, batik, jewellery, precious metalwork, pottery, goldsmithing, basketry, mosaic art, and glassware). 

Illuminated manuscripts and later book illustration are also classified as applied arts. Architecture, too is best viewed as an applied art.

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