Draft:Outline of the arts

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the arts:

Below is a structured list of topics in the arts.

What type of thing are the arts?
The arts can be described as all of the following:


 * together they form a vast subdivision of culture –

Literature
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
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
Plastic arts –
 * 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
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
Culinary arts –
 * Baking –
 * Chocolatiering –
 * Winemaking –

Media arts

 * Cinematography –
 * Photography –

New media arts
New media arts –
 * Digital art –
 * Computer graphics –
 * Computer animation –
 * Virtual art –
 * Internet art –
 * Interactive art –
 * Video games –
 * Cyborg arts –

Aspects of the arts

 * Creativity
 * Fine art
 * Industrial art

The arts by region

 * Arts of Asia
 * Arts of India
 * Arts of Assam
 * Arts of Kerala
 * Arts of Odisha
 * Arts of West Bengal
 * Arts of China
 * Arts of Iran
 * Arts of Ukraine

History of the arts
History of the arts

History of the arts, by region

 * Arts of Caucasian Albania

History of the arts, by subject

 * History of literature
 * History of poetry
 * History of prose
 * History of the play
 * History of the screenplay
 * History of the visual arts
 * History of architecture
 * History of ceramic art
 * History of conceptual art
 * History of drawing
 * History of design
 * History of handicraft
 * History of painting
 * History of photography
 * History of printmaking
 * History of sculpture
 * History of the performing arts
 * History of dance
 * History of film
 * History of theatre
 * History of music
 * History of stagecraft

Arts criticism

 * Architecture criticism
 * Visual art criticism
 * Dance criticism
 * Film criticism
 * Music journalism
 * Television criticism
 * Theatre criticism

Politics of the arts
The arts and politics
 * Political cinema
 * Political satire

Venues of the arts

 * Arts centres
 * Movie theaters
 * Museums
 * Art museums (list)
 * Theatres (list)

Organizations supporting the arts

 * Arts of Fashion Foundation
 * National Endowment for the Arts

Journals about the arts

 * 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

 * List of art magazines

Persons influential in the arts

 * 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
[Task: place these topics in other sections. Create new sections as necessary.]


 * 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