Traditional art serves a useful purpose and connects communities to the past while being passed down through generations. Examples include folk music, pottery, and artifacts. Folk art expresses cultural identity through shared values and aesthetics using media like cloth, wood, and clay. It is created by individuals learning skills informally within their community. Fine art is created mainly for aesthetic value and beauty through forms like painting, printmaking and sculpture, in contrast to applied art and crafts which have functional purposes. Examples of fine art include graphics design, architecture, and conceptual art.

1. * What is traditional art, folk art, fine art? Give
some examples.
=> Traditionalart : Traditional arts are the ‘do it yourself arts’
originally practiced to serve a useful purpose like quilts and labor
songs and now practiced for the pure joy of it. Sharing traditions
strengthen the ties of a community while connecting folks to the
past and future. It is grandma reciting a story told to her by her
mother, a fiddler sharing a tune or a craftsman carving a lure.
Traditional arts often represent a place or a group of people. It
can also express the thoughts and feelings of a point in history.
Traditional arts are learned person to person, passed from
generation to the next and influenced by culture, family, ethnicity
and era.
Examples: Traditional music, folk music, pottery, rickshaw art,
mechanism artifacts, dead artifacts etc.

2. FolK art : Folk art is an expression of the world’s traditional
cultures. Folk art is rooted in traditions that come from community
and culture, expressing cultural identity by conveying shared
community values and aesthetics. Folk art encompasses a range
of utilitarian and decorative media, including cloth, wood, paper,
clay, metal and more. Folk art is made by individuals whose
creative skills convey their community’s authentic cultural identity,
rather than an individual or idiosyncratic artistic identity. Folk
artists traditionally learn skills and techniques through
apprenticeships in informal community settings, though they may
also be formally educated.
Examples: Alpana, illustrated, canvas, nokshikantha, terracotta
etc.

3. Fine art : Fine art refers to an art from practiced mainly for its
aesthetic value and its beauty rather than its functional value.
Fine art is rooted in drawing and design based works such as
painting, printmaking and sculpture. It is often contrasted with
applied art and crafts which are both traditionally seen as
utilitarian activities. Other non-design based activities regarded as
fine arts, include photography and architecture, although the latter
is best understood as an applied art.
Examples: Graphics design, painting, sculpture, architecture,
printmaking, sequential art, conceptual art etc.