Higher education in Applied arts
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Performing arts
The performing arts differ from the plastic arts or visual arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some art object.
Performing arts include:
Music (Performance) See Higher education in music.
Opera
Theatre See Higher education in theatre.
Film
Dance
Circus arts
Plastic or visual arts
The plastic arts or visual arts are a class of art forms, that involve the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated in some way, often in three dimensions. Examples are clay, paint and plaster. Arts that can be said to be Plastic Arts are therefore Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, etc.
The plastic arts may refer to:
Fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography)
Architecture
Ceramics
Land art
Metalworking
Paper art
Textile art
Woodworking
Film
Source: wikipedia.org
