The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the arts:
The arts or creative arts are a wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing, and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized, and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training, and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations, and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural, and individual identities while transmitting values, impressions, judgements, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life, and experiences across time and space.
Below is a structured list of topics in the arts.
What type of thing are the arts? edit
The arts can be described as all of the following:
- together they form a vast subdivision of culture –
The arts, by type edit
Literature edit
Literature – the art of written works. Forms of literature, or literary art, include:
- Poetry – literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning.
- Prose – form of language that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech rather than a rhythmic structure (as in traditional poetry). Its simplicity and loosely defined structure have led to its adoption for use in the majority of spoken dialogue, factual discourse and both topical and fictional writing.
- Play – form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.
- Screenplay –
Visual arts edit
Visual arts – art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature.
- Architecture – The art and science of designing and erecting buildings and other physical structures.
- Conceptual art –
- Crafts – recreational activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands and skill.
- Drawing – visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.
- Design – the process for planning the overall look of an object.
- Film – motion pictures.
- Painting – practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface with a brush or other object.
- Photography – art, science, and practice of creating pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors.
- Printmaking –
Plastic arts edit
- Ceramics – Art made from ceramic materials (including clay), which may take forms including art ware, tile, figurines, sculpture, and tableware.
- Sculpture – three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials - typically stone such as marble - or metal, glass, or wood.
- Wood carving –
Performing arts edit
Performing arts – those forms of art that use the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium.
- Dance – art form of movement of the body.
- Filmmaking – making moving pictures, recording performances visually.
- Theatre – collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.
- Music – art form the medium of which is sound and silence.
- Stagecraft – technical aspects of theatrical, film, and video production. It includes, but is not limited to, constructing and rigging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, design and procurement of costumes, makeup, procurement of props, stage management, and recording and mixing of sound.
Culinary arts edit
- Baking –
- Chocolatiering –
- Winemaking –
Media arts edit
New media arts edit
Aspects of the arts edit
The arts by region edit
History of the arts edit
History of the arts, by region edit
History of the arts, by subject edit
Arts criticism edit
Politics of the arts edit
Venues of the arts edit
Organizations supporting the arts edit
Publications about the arts edit
Journals about the arts edit
- African Arts
- Art and Documentation
- Arts Education Policy Review
- Asian Theatre Journal
- Congress on Research in Dance
- Contemporary Theatre Review
- Crossings
- Dance Chronicle
- Dance Research
- Design Issues
- Early Theatre
- Fashion Theory
- Gentse Bijdragen tot de Interieurgeschiedenis
- The Hopkins Review
- Hozon Kagaku
- Ibsen Studies
- International Journal of Comic Art
- Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
- Journal of Religion and Theatre
- Leonardo
- Museum
- New Theatre Quarterly
- October
- PAJ
- Photography & Culture
- Studi sul Settecento Romano
- Theatre Journal
- Theatre Topics
- Vestoj
- Winterthur Portfolio
Magazines about the arts edit
Persons influential in the arts edit
- List of actors
- List of architects
- List of art critics
- List of art dealers
- List of choreographers (dance)
- List of composers (music)
- List of dancers
- List of film and television directors
- List of musicians
- List of novelists
- List of painters
- List of photographers
- List of playwrights
- List of poets
- List of screenwriting gurus
- List of sculptors
- List of singers
General concepts in the arts edit
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- Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
- Adaptation (arts)
- Aesthetic relativism
- After (art)
- Anthropotechnic
- Applied arts
- Art
- ART/MEDIA
- Art-based research
- Artes mechanicae
- Artistic freedom
- Artistic license
- Arts and letters
- Bibliography of encyclopedias: art and artists
- Carving
- Community art
- Computer art
- Conceptual art
- Context art
- Cultural resource management
- Culture of popular laughter
- Dedication (art)
- Dematerialization (art)
- Diegesis
- Digital Live Art
- Economics of the arts and literature
- Film theory
- Fine art
- Genre-busting
- Gifted art
- Graphic arts
- High culture
- Humanities, arts, and social sciences
- Impalement in myth and art
- Information art
- Interactive art
- Interdisciplinary arts
- International trade in fine art
- Leaf carving
- Literary fiction
- Painting
- Pastiche
- Patronage
- Peer jury process
- Performance art
- Poet as legislator
- Repurposing
- Showpiece
- Social artistry
- Social practice
- Spirit of place
- Studio
- Oindrilla Maity Surai
- The Babin Republic
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Transformative arts
- United Art Rating
- Useful art
- Water marble nail
- Art world
See also edit
References edit
External links edit