Types of arts and crafts

Types of arts and crafts

Types of decorative and applied arts include embroidery, painting, weaving, wood carving, pysanka, pottery, blacksmithing, vytynanka, as well as wickerwork and floristry.

Folk art technique is one of the historically organized forms of artistic activity:

  • commercially profitable, with the use of human labor as a mandatory rule.

The forms of national folk art include.

  • The first includes the work of folk artists for themselves and their families;
  • the second – social and artistic techniques of application – includes the manual production of products by special craftsmen and organized enterprises for sale. Folk decorative and applied art is a multi-species genre depending on the material, manufacturing technique, and functional purpose of the products.

Decorativeness is one of the most important means of conveying the originality, ideality and aesthetics of an image and a sense of thought.

There is also a division of this art into separate genres:
By the genre of the object, we include equipment made of wood (this is furniture).

In terms of technical execution, we include crafts such as carving, painting or painting materials, as well as weaving.

Division by material:

1) equipment made of wood;
2) ceramic;
3) stone products;
4) metal.

The development of decorative and applied arts represents changes in socio-economic and social conditions. With the transition of production to new and improved technical means, as well as their technological improvement of life, social science and theoretical knowledge. This active role has played an important role in the development of new stylistic forms in this art, they have become one of the reasons for the change of artistic language, its regression, that is, its decline.

The main types:

We will substantiate the main types of decorative and applied arts such as:
Clay – the oldest material.
Ceramics is the main material for studying architecture.
Wood is also one of the oldest decorative and applied materials, which was used to develop utensils, furniture, and the most elementary tools. The use of trees in the past and to this day plays one of the most important roles (buildings, parks, and others).
Weaving is a type of labor by means of making household and artistic products.
Textile is a soft material that is a dense network of natural fibers (threads and yarns). In addition to the term textile, the term “fabric” is also used. Textile is the more important term because fabric means finished.

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