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."Applied art" in The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Online edition. Oxford University Press, 2004. www.oxfordreference.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013. The term is used in distinction to the fine arts, which are those that produce objects with no practical use, whose only purpose is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect in some way. In practice, the two often overlap. Applied arts largely overlap with decorative arts, and the modern making of applied art is usually called design.
Examples 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. Culinary arts Ceramic art Automotive design Fashion design Calligraphy Interior design Graphic design Cartographic (map) design
Movements Art movements that mostly operated in the applied arts include the following. In addition, major artistic styles such as Neoclassicism, Gothic 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 Arts and Crafts, Zagreb 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 National Folk Decorative Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine Powerhouse Museum (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences), Sydney Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (Saint Petersburg), Russia Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, Czech Republic Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, Florida
See also
Art for art's sake Decorative arts Design museum Fine art Sculpture Painting
References
Further reading Dormer, Peter (ed.), The Culture of Craft, 1997, Manchester University Press, , 9780719046186, google books