Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4/Arts
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Total 677 articles.
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Arts
This section contains 677 articles.
Arts: General
This section contains 3 articles.
Architecture
This section contains 59 articles.
- For construction technology, see: Technology: Infrastructure.
Architecture: General
This section contains 6 articles.
- Architecture (Level 2)
- Sacral architecture
- Architectural drawing
- Architectural theory
- Proportion
- Landscape architecture
Styles
This section contains 18 articles.
- Ancient Egyptian architecture
- Ancient Greek architecture
- Ancient Roman architecture
- Baroque architecture
- Byzantine architecture
- Chinese architecture
- Gothic architecture
- Architecture of India
- Iranian architecture
- Islamic architecture
- Megalith
- Mesoamerican architecture
- Architecture of Mesopotamia
- Modern architecture
- Neoclassical architecture
- Postmodern architecture
- Renaissance architecture
- Romanesque architecture
Specific structures
This section contains 35 articles.
- Acropolis of Athens
- Alhambra
- Angkor Wat
- Arc de Triomphe
- Borobudur
- Burj Khalifa
- Colosseum
- Eiffel Tower
- Empire State Building
- Fallingwater
- Florence Cathedral
- Forbidden City
- Great Sphinx of Giza
- Great Wall of China (Level 3)
- Hagia Sophia
- Kaaba
- Kinkaku-ji
- Kremlin
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Machu Picchu
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Palace of Versailles
- Palace of Westminster
- Pantheon, Rome
- Parthenon
- Sagrada Família
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- St. Peter's Basilica
- Statue of Liberty
- Stonehenge
- Sydney Opera House
- Taj Mahal
- Temple Mount
- Ziggurat of Ur
Cultural venues
This section contains 20 articles.
Cultural venues: GeneralThis section contains 2 articles. AmericasThis section contains 5 articles.
AsiaThis section contains 2 articles. |
EuropeThis section contains 11 articles.
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Literature
This section contains 220 articles.
Music
This section contains 139 articles.
Performing arts
This section contains 45 articles.
Basic conceptsThis section contains 4 articles. FormsThis section contains 41 articles. |
DanceThis section contains 14 articles. |
TheatreThis section contains 18 articles.
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Visual arts
This section contains 110 articles.
- For photographic technology, see: Technology: Optical technology.
History of art
This section contains 51 articles.
Pre-modern art
This section contains 16 articles.
- Academic art
- Ancient Greek art
- Baroque
- Classicism
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Empire style
- Gothic art
- Hellenistic art
- Mannerism
- Prehistoric art (Level 3)
- Renaissance art
- Rococo
- Roman art
- Romanesque art
Modern art
This section contains 21 articles.
- Modern art
- Abstract art (Level 3)
- Abstract expressionism
- Art Deco
- Art Nouveau
- Arts and Crafts movement
- Avant-garde
- Cubism
- Dada
- Expressionism
- Futurism
- Impressionism
- Modernism (Level 3)
- Neoclassicism
- Post-Impressionism
- Postmodernism
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Realism (Level 3)
- Romanticism (Level 3)
- Surrealism
- Symbolism
Contemporary art
This section contains 6 articles.
Non-Western art traditions
This section contains 8 articles.
- African art
- Chinese art
- Indian art
- Islamic art
- Japanese art
- Persian art
- Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Concepts and forms
This section contains 31 articles.
- Visual arts (Level 2)
- Art criticism
- Calligraphy
- Ceramic art
- Collage
- Comics (Level 3)
- Decorative arts
- Drawing (Level 3)
- Fashion (Level 3)
- Folk art
- Graffiti
- Handicraft
- Illustration
- Mosaic
- Mural
- Optical illusion
- Origami
- Painting (Level 3)
- Perspective (graphical)
- Portrait
- Printmaking
- Religious art
- Sculpture (Level 3)
- Taxidermy
- Textile arts
- Wood carving
Specific works
This section contains 28 articles.
Painting
This section contains 17 articles.
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Along the River During the Qingming Festival
- Arnolfini Portrait
- The Birth of Venus
- Campbell's Soup Cans
- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- Guernica
- The Last Supper
- Las Meninas
- Mona Lisa
- The Night Watch
- The Persistence of Memory
- The Scream
- Sistine Chapel
- The Starry Night
- Water Lilies
Sculpture
This section contains 8 articles.
- David
- Fountain
- Olmec colossal heads
- Pietà
- Terracotta Army
- The Thinker
- Venus de Milo
- Venus of Willendorf
Other media
This section contains 3 articles.
Modern visual arts
This section contains 61 articles.
Design
This section contains 6 articles.
Digital art
This section contains 2 articles.
Filmmaking
This section contains 53 articles.
Filmmaking: General
This section contains 8 articles.
Cinema by country
This section contains 8 articles.
- Cinema of the United States
- Cinema of France
- Cinema of India
- Cinema of Japan
- Cinema of China
- Cinema of the Soviet Union
- Cinema of Nigeria
Film festival and awards
This section contains 3 articles.
Films
This section contains 34 articles.
Animation
This section contains 2 articles.
Art film
This section contains 1 article.
Comedy
This section contains 2 articles.
Documentary
This section contains 1 article.
Drama film
This section contains 18 articles.
- 8½
- Bicycle Thieves
- Breathless
- Children of Paradise
- Citizen Kane
- The Godfather
- L'Atalante
- La dolce vita
- The Rules of the Game
- Tokyo Story
Epic/Historical
This section contains 6 articles.
- The Apu Trilogy
- Battleship Potemkin
- The Birth of a Nation
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Seven Samurai
- The Seventh Seal
Horror/Thriller
This section contains 2 articles.
Musical
This section contains 3 articles.
Romance film
This section contains 2 articles.
Science fiction/Fantasy
This section contains 4 articles.
Western
This section contains 1 article.
Fictional and legendary characters
This section contains 20 articles.
- For mythological and Biblical characters, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.
Western folkloreThis section contains 5 articles. Eastern folkloreThis section contains 1 article. |
Literature and dramaThis section contains 5 articles. Film, television, and gamesThis section contains 3 articles. |
SuperheroesThis section contains 6 articles.
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