In a narrow sense, it refers to the decorative arts that use certain modeling means and artistic skills to process practical articles and furnishings, such as dyeing and weaving, furniture, ceramics, decorative painting, ivory carving, commercial advertising and so on.
Broadly speaking, it refers to those works that can meet people's practical and aesthetic needs and integrate science and aesthetics, technology and art, generally including architectural art, craft (or arts and crafts), garden art and design art. In aesthetics and art, people often use the latter concept, that is, practical art in a broad sense.
Of course, broad practical art includes narrow practical art. Most practical arts are directly created by working people and are closely related to people's material life and spiritual life. It is one of the most popular art forms and exerts a subtle influence on people's aesthetic concepts, tastes and ideals.
In the modern society with highly developed science and technology, with the increasing demand of people's material civilization and spiritual civilization, the aesthetic value and aesthetic education function of practical art will become more and more important and prominent.
Extended data:
1, practical artworks are different from artworks:
Art works refer to plane or three-dimensional plastic art works such as painting, calligraphy and sculpture formed by lines, colors or other means. Art works include pure art works and practical art works. The criterion for distinguishing practical works of art from pure works of art is whether they have practical value. In the copyright law, only works of art with practical and aesthetic value can be covered and protected by the category of practical works of art. ..
2. Practical works of art are different from industrial design:
The term "design" as mentioned in the Patent Law refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application, which is made by the shape, pattern or combination of products and the combination of colors, shapes and patterns.
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