Applied arts

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{{Short description|Branch in the production of consumer goods}}

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| image1 = Coffeepot MET DP103144 (cropped),.jpg

| image2 = Le Jeu de l'echarpe (Dancer with scarf), by Agathon Leonard, before 1901, Susse Freres, Paris, gilt bronze - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC00944.jpg

| image3 = Jardiniere And Liner (Germany), ca. 1905–10 (CH 18444035) (cropped).jpg

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| image2 = Russolo, Carrà, Marinetti, Boccioni and Severini in front of Le Figaro, Paris, 9 February 1912.jpg

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| image1 = Jean-henri riesener, comò, 1770-80 ca.jpg

| image2 = Filippo pelagio pelagi per il moncalvo (gabriele cappello) e carlo chivasse, sedia, torino 1835 ca.jpg

| image3 = HMF Hermann Kreuzer Esszimmer-Bueffet.jpg

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| image3 = Clara pierce wolcott per tiffany studios, lampada ombra di libellula su base mosaicata guscio di tartaruga, ante 1906, 01.jpg

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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.
• Ceramic art
• Automotive design
• Fashion design
• Calligraphy
• Interior design
• Graphic design
• Cartographic (map) design