Applied arts

The applied arts are arts that make design and decoration to everyday things. Applied arts can make things look aesthetically well."Applied art" in The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Online edition. Oxford University Press, 2004. www.oxfordreference.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Applied arts can also be used with decorative arts. The modern making of applied art is usually called design.

Example of applied arts are:

 Industrial design – mass-produced objects.
 Sculpture – also counted as a fine art.
 Architecture – also counted as a fine art.
 Crafts – also counted as a fine art.
 Ceramic art
 Automotive design
 Fashion design
 Calligraphy
 Interior design
 Graphic design
 Cartographic (map) design

 Movements 
They are many art movements that focused on applied arts. Many artistic art styles like Neoclassicism and Gothic cover both devorative and applied arts. and others cover both the fine and applied or decorative arts.

 Art Nouveau
 Art Deco
 Arts and Crafts Movement
 Bauhaus
 Productivism

 Museums of Applied Arts 

 Bauhaus Archive
 Die Neue Sammlung, Germany
 Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts, Germany
 Martin-Gropius-Bau
 Museum of Applied Arts (Belgrade), Serbia
 Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), Hungary
 Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
 Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Cologne), Germany
 Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria
 Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland
 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
 Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (Saint Petersburg), Russia
 Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, Czech Republic
 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
 Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 Related pages 

 Fine art
 Sculpture
 Painting

 References 

 Further reading 

 Dormer, Peter (ed.), The Culture of Craft, 1997, Manchester University Press, , 9780719046186, google books

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