Commercial Arts Overview

Commercial Arts

• Commercial arts are designed to sell a product, service, or concept.
• Examples include books, ads, signs, posters, and displays.

Mechanical Processes

• Mechanical processes are used by commercial printers to reproduce words and images in one or more colors.
• They allow for mass production.

Photography

• A chemical-mechanical process that uses light to create images on sensitized surfaces.
• Can be black and white or colored.

Plastic Arts

• Includes all visual arts where materials are organized into three-dimensional forms.

Architecture

• The art of designing and constructing buildings and other structures.
• Uses various materials like stone, concrete, brick, wood, steel, glass, and plaster.
• Considered the "mother of the arts" because other fields like painting and sculpture are housed within them.

Landscape Architecture

• Planning of outdoor areas, especially gardens, parks, playgrounds, and golf courses.
• Uses plants, trees, shrubs, blossoms, vines, and soil cover.

City Planning

• Planning and coordination of a city's physical elements.
• Structures and areas for living and working are designed to be pleasant and efficient.

Interior Design

• Design and arrangement of architectural interiors for ease and elegance.
• Considers backgrounds (walls, floors, ceilings), furnishings, and accessories.
• Wallpaper design, furniture, curtains, and upholstery textiles are significant.

Sculpture

• Design and creation of three-dimensional structures, representing natural objects or imaginary forms (sometimes abstract).
• Common materials are stone, wood, clay, and metal, but also ivory, jade, rope, string, and others.
• Statues are sculptures of figures.

Crafts

• Designing and creating hand-made items for use or enjoyment.
• Includes ceramics, jewelry, leatherwork, and weaving.
• When mass-produced, they are called industrial design.

Industrial Design

• Design of objects for machine production.
• Examples include automobiles and household appliances.

Dress and Costume Design

• Creation of clothing of all sorts, like skirts, jackets, suits, and ties.

Theater Design

• Design of settings for dramatic productions.

Film

• Art of putting together still images to create the illusion of movement.
• Involves various elements like lighting, musical score, visual effects, and direction.

Performance Art

• A live art where the artist's medium is the human body.
• Uses elements like visual art, props, and sound.
• Four important elements: time, location, performer's body, relationship between audience and performer.

Poetry Performance

• Artist expresses emotions through words, chosen carefully for clarity, beauty, and emotional impact.
• Movements, tone, volume, and intensity contribute to the artistic value of the poem.

Theater

• Live performance using actors to present accounts or imaginary events before an audience.
• Usually follows a script but not necessarily literary arts.
• Viewer participation is important.
• Genres include drama, musical, tragedy, comedy, and improvisation.

Applied Arts

• Incorporates elements of style and design into everyday items to increase their aesthetic value.
• Brings beauty, charm, and comfort into useful items.
• Includes industrial design, interior design, fashion design, and graphic design.
• Blends functionality and style.

Explore the diverse fields of commercial arts, including its role in advertising, mechanical processes, photography, and architecture. Learn about the interplay of different artistic disciplines and how they contribute to the visual environment we experience. This quiz covers key concepts and examples from each area.