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=Arts =

Arts: General

 * 1)  The arts (Level 1)
 * 2)  Art (Level 3)
 * 3)  Artist

Architecture

 * For construction technology, see: Technology: Infrastructure.

Architecture: General

 * 1)  Architecture (Level 2)
 * 2)  Sacral architecture
 * 3)  Architectural drawing
 * 4)  Architectural theory
 * 5)  Proportion
 * 6)  Landscape architecture

Styles

 * 1)  Ancient Egyptian architecture
 * 2)  Ancient Greek architecture
 * 3)  Ancient Roman architecture
 * 4)  Baroque architecture
 * 5)  Byzantine architecture
 * 6)  Chinese architecture
 * 7)  Gothic architecture
 * 8)  Architecture of India
 * 9)  Iranian architecture
 * 10)  Islamic architecture
 * 11)  Megalith
 * 12)  Mesoamerican architecture
 * 13)  Architecture of Mesopotamia
 * 14)  Modern architecture
 * 15)  Neoclassical architecture
 * 16)  Postmodern architecture
 * 17)  Renaissance architecture
 * 18)  Romanesque architecture

Specific structures

 * 1)  Acropolis of Athens
 * 2)  Alhambra
 * 3)  Angkor Wat
 * 4)  Arc de Triomphe
 * 5)   Borobudur
 * 6)  Burj Khalifa
 * 7)  Colosseum
 * 8)  Eiffel Tower
 * 9)  Empire State Building
 * 10)  Fallingwater
 * 11)  Florence Cathedral
 * 12)   Forbidden City
 * 13)  Great Sphinx of Giza
 * 14)  Great Wall of China (Level 3)
 * 15)  Hagia Sophia
 * 16)  Kaaba
 * 17)  Kinkaku-ji
 * 18)  Kremlin
 * 19)  Leaning Tower of Pisa
 * 20)   Machu Picchu
 * 21)  Notre-Dame de Paris
 * 22)  Palace of Versailles
 * 23)   Palace of Westminster
 * 24)  Pantheon, Rome
 * 25)   Parthenon
 * 26)  Sagrada Família
 * 27)  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
 * 28)   Great Pyramid of Giza (Level 3)
 * 29)  St. Peter's Basilica
 * 30)  Statue of Liberty
 * 31)  Stonehenge
 * 32)  Sydney Opera House
 * 33)   Taj Mahal
 * 34)  Temple Mount
 * 35)  Ziggurat of Ur

Cultural venues: General

 * 1)  Museum (Level 3)
 * 2)  Movie theater

Americas

 * 1)  American Museum of Natural History
 * 2)  Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * 3)  Museum of Modern Art
 * 4)  National Gallery of Art
 * 5)  Smithsonian Institution

Asia

 * 1)  National Museum of China
 * 2)  National Palace Museum

Europe

 * 1)  British Museum
 * 2)  Hermitage Museum
 * 3)  Louvre
 * 4)  Musée National d'Art Moderne
 * 5)  Museo del Prado
 * 6)  National Gallery
 * 7)  Natural History Museum, London
 * 8)  Rijksmuseum
 * 9)  Tate Modern
 * 10)  Uffizi
 * 11)  Vatican Museums

Basics

 * 1)  Literature (Level 2)
 * 2)  Character
 * 3)  Literary criticism
 * 4)  Narrative
 * 5)  Prose
 * 6)  Saga
 * 7)  Fiction (Level 3)
 * 8)  Children's literature
 * 9)  Detective fiction
 * 10)  Fable
 * 11)   Fairy tale (Level 3)
 * 12)  Fantasy
 * 13)  Fictional universe
 * 14)  Horror fiction
 * 15)  Legend
 * 16)  Novel (Level 3)
 * 17)  Romance novel
 * 18)  Satire
 * 19)  Black comedy
 * 20)  Science fiction
 * 21)  Time travel
 * 22)  Short story (Level 3)
 * 23)  Utopia
 * 24)  Non-fiction
 * 25)  Biography
 * 26)  Diary
 * 27)  Dictionary
 * 28)  Encyclopedia
 * 29)  Essay
 * 30)  Thesaurus
 * 31)   Poetry (Level 3)
 * 32)  Epic poetry (Level 3)
 * 33)  Ghazal
 * 34)  Haiku
 * 35)  Ode
 * 36)  Prose poetry
 * 37)  Rhyme
 * 38)  Sonnet
 * 39)  Writer

Literatures by language and area

 * 1)  African literature
 * 2)  Ancient Egyptian literature
 * 3)  Ancient Greek literature
 * 4)  Arabic literature
 * 5)  Chinese literature
 * 6)  English literature (Level 3)
 * 7)  French literature
 * 8)  German literature
 * 9)  Indian literature
 * 10)  Italian literature
 * 11)  Japanese literature
 * 12)  Jewish literature
 * 13)  Latin American literature
 * 14)  Latin literature
 * 15)   Persian literature
 * 16)  Russian literature
 * 17)  Scandinavian literature
 * 18)  Spanish literature

Fiction of antiquity

 * 1)  Aesop's Fables
 * 2)  The Bacchae
 * 3)  The Golden Ass
 * 4)  Investiture of the Gods
 * 5)  Journey to the West
 * 6)  Kādambari
 * 7)  Kathasaritsagara
 * 8)  Lysistrata
 * 9)  Medea
 * 10)  Oresteia
 * 11)  Oedipus Rex
 * 12)  One Thousand and One Nights
 * 13)  Aladdin
 * 14)  Panchatantra
 * 15)  Romance of the Three Kingdoms
 * 16)  The Tale of Genji
 * 17)  Water Margin

Fiction of early printed book era

 * 1)  Candide
 * 2)  Cinderella
 * 3)  Don Quixote
 * 4)  Dream of the Red Chamber
 * 5)  Goethe's Faust
 * 6)  Gulliver's Travels
 * 7)  Hamlet
 * 8)  King Lear
 * 9)  Macbeth
 * 10)  A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * 11)  Othello
 * 12)  La Princesse de Clèves
 * 13)  Robinson Crusoe
 * 14)  Romeo and Juliet
 * 15)  Tartuffe
 * 16)  The Tempest
 * 17)  Utopia (More book)

Fiction of modern era

 * 1)  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * 2)  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * 3)  Anna Karenina
 * 4)   Brave New World
 * 5)   The Brothers Karamazov
 * 6)  The Call of the Wild
 * 7)  The Catcher in the Rye
 * 8)  A Christmas Carol
 * 9)  The Chronicles of Narnia
 * 10)  The Color Purple
 * 11)  Crime and Punishment
 * 12)  The Crucible
 * 13)  A Doll's House
 * 14)   Dracula
 * 15)  Eugene Onegin
 * 16)   Frankenstein
 * 17)  The Grapes of Wrath
 * 18)  The Great Gatsby
 * 19)  Grimms' Fairy Tales
 * 20)  Harry Potter
 * 21)  Heart of Darkness
 * 22)  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 * 23)  The Importance of Being Earnest
 * 24)  In Search of Lost Time
 * 25)  Jane Eyre
 * 26)  Les Misérables
 * 27)  The Little Prince
 * 28)  Little Women
 * 29)  Lolita
 * 30)   The Lord of the Rings
 * 31)  Madame Bovary
 * 32)  The Metamorphosis
 * 33)  Middlemarch
 * 34)  Midnight's Children
 * 35)  Moby-Dick
 * 36)  Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * 37)  On the Road
 * 38)  One Hundred Years of Solitude
 * 39)  Pride and Prejudice
 * 40)  The Scarlet Letter
 * 41)  Snow Country
 * 42)  The Sound and the Fury
 * 43)  The Sun Also Rises
 * 44)  Things Fall Apart
 * 45)  The Three Musketeers
 * 46)  To Kill a Mockingbird
 * 47)  To the Lighthouse
 * 48)  Ulysses
 * 49)  Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * 50)  Waiting for Godot
 * 51)  War and Peace
 * 52)  The War of the Worlds
 * 53)  The Wind in the Willows
 * 54)  Wuthering Heights

Comics

 * 1)   The Adventures of Tintin
 * 2)  Asterix
 * 3)  One Piece
 * 4)  Peanuts

Nonfiction of antiquity

 * 1)  Anabasis (Xenophon)
 * 2)  Analects
 * 3)  Apology (Plato)
 * 4)  The Art of War
 * 5)  The Book of Healing
 * 6)   On the Consolation of Philosophy
 * 7)  Dead Sea Scrolls
 * 8)  Euclid's Elements
 * 9)  Hippocratic Corpus
 * 10)  Histories (Herodotus)
 * 11)  History of the Peloponnesian War
 * 12)  I Ching
 * 13)  The Incoherence of the Philosophers
 * 14)  Metaphysics (Aristotle)
 * 15)  Muqaddimah
 * 16)  Nicomachean Ethics
 * 17)  Organon
 * 18)  Poetic Edda
 * 19)  Popol Vuh
 * 20)  Republic (Plato)
 * 21)  Septuagint
 * 22)  Summa Theologica
 * 23)  Vulgate

Nonfiction of early printed book era

 * 1)  Critique of Pure Reason
 * 2)  De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
 * 3)  A Dictionary of the English Language
 * 4)  Discourse on the Method
 * 5)   Encyclopædia Britannica
 * 6)  Encyclopédie
 * 7)  Gutenberg Bible
 * 8)  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
 * 9)   King James Version
 * 10)  Leviathan
 * 11)  Ninety-five Theses
 * 12)  Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
 * 13)  The Prince

Nonfiction of modern era

 * 1)  The Communist Manifesto
 * 2)  Das Kapital
 * 3)  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
 * 4)  The Golden Bough
 * 5)  Night
 * 6)  On the Origin of Species
 * 7)  Oxford English Dictionary
 * 8)  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
 * 9)  Silent Spring
 * 10)  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
 * 11)  The Wealth of Nations

Poetic works of antiquity

 * 1)  Aeneid
 * 2)  Beowulf
 * 3)  The Canterbury Tales
 * 4)  Divine Comedy
 * 5)  Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi
 * 6)  Epic of Gilgamesh
 * 7)  Iliad
 * 8)   Mahabharata
 * 9)  Masnavi
 * 10)  Metamorphoses
 * 11)  Nibelungenlied
 * 12)  Odyssey
 * 13)  Shahnameh
 * 14)  Song of Roland

Poetic works of early printed book era

 * 1)  Shakespeare's sonnets
 * 2)  Paradise Lost
 * 3)  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
 * 4)  Oku no Hosomichi
 * 5)  Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Poetic works of modern era

 * 1)   Duino Elegies
 * 2)  Leaves of Grass
 * 3)  The Raven
 * 4)  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 * 5)  The Waste Land

Basics

 * 1)  Music (Level 2)
 * 2)  Choir
 * 3)  Concert
 * 4)  Counterpoint
 * 5)  Harmony
 * 6)  Chord
 * 7)  Melody
 * 8)  Musicology
 * 9)  Music theory
 * 10)  Music video
 * 11)  Musical notation
 * 12)  Orchestra (Level 3)
 * 13)  Rhythm
 * 14)  Scale (music)
 * 15)  Singing (Level 3)
 * 16)  Song

Musical instruments

 * 1)  Musical instrument (Level 3)
 * 2)  Electronic musical instrument
 * 3)   Synthesizer
 * 4)  Keyboard instrument
 * 5)  Accordion
 * 6)  Harpsichord
 * 7)  Piano
 * 8)   Pipe organ
 * 9)  Percussion instrument
 * 10)  Bell
 * 11)  Cymbal
 * 12)  Djembe
 * 13)  Drum
 * 14)  Xylophone
 * 15)   String instrument
 * 16)  Bass guitar
 * 17)   Cello
 * 18)  Double bass
 * 19)  Electric guitar
 * 20)  Guitar
 * 21)  Harp
 * 22)  Lute
 * 23)  Lyre
 * 24)  Mandolin
 * 25)  Viola
 * 26)  Violin
 * 27)  Wind instrument
 * 28)  Bagpipes
 * 29)  Brass instrument
 * 30)  Horn
 * 31)  Trombone
 * 32)  Trumpet
 * 33)  Tuba
 * 34)  Harmonica
 * 35)  Woodwind instrument
 * 36)   Bassoon
 * 37)   Clarinet
 * 38)  Flute
 * 39)  Pan flute
 * 40)   Recorder
 * 41)  Western concert flute
 * 42)  Oboe
 * 43)   Saxophone

Music genres and forms: General

 * 1)  Ballad
 * 2)  Christmas carol
 * 3)  Hymn
 * 4)  Lullaby
 * 5)  National anthem
 * 6)  Protest song

Western classical music

 * 1)  Classical music (Level 3)
 * 2)  Aria
 * 3)  Chamber music
 * 4)  Concerto
 * 5)  Fugue
 * 6)  Opera (Level 3)
 * 7)  Sonata
 * 8)  Symphony
 * 9)   Medieval music
 * 10)   Gregorian chant
 * 11)   Renaissance music
 * 12)  Baroque music
 * 13)  Classical period
 * 14)  Romantic music
 * 15)  20th-century classical music
 * 16)  Contemporary classical music

Non-Western music

 * 1)  Arabic music
 * 2)  Gamelan
 * 3)  Indian classical music
 * 4)  Music of China
 * 5)  Sub-Saharan African music traditions

Popular music

 * 1)   Blues
 * 2)  Country music
 * 3)   Disco
 * 4)  Electronic music
 * 5)   Folk music (Level 3)
 * 6)  Funk
 * 7)   Hip hop music
 * 8)   Rapping
 * 9)   Jazz (Level 3)
 * 10)   Bossa nova
 * 11)   Ragtime
 * 12)  Pop music (Level 3)
 * 13)  Reggae
 * 14)   Rhythm and blues
 * 15)   Soul music
 * 16)   Rock music (Level 3)
 * 17)   Heavy metal music
 * 18)   Punk rock
 * 19)  Rock and roll
 * 20)   Salsa music
 * 21)  Samba

Baroque

 * 1)  Brandenburg Concertos
 * 2)  The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
 * 3)  Mass in B minor
 * 4)  Messiah (Handel)
 * 5)  The Well-Tempered Clavier

Classical

 * 1)  Nocturnes (Chopin)
 * 2)  Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
 * 3)  Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
 * 4)  Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
 * 5)  Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
 * 6)  Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
 * 7)  Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Opera

 * 1)  La bohème
 * 2)  Carmen
 * 3)  Don Giovanni
 * 4)  The Magic Flute
 * 5)  The Marriage of Figaro
 * 6)  Der Ring des Nibelungen
 * 7)  La traviata
 * 8)  Tristan und Isolde

Ballet

 * 1)  The Nutcracker
 * 2)  The Rite of Spring
 * 3)  Swan Lake

Musicals

 * 1)  The Phantom of the Opera
 * 2)  West Side Story

Modern

 * 1)  Heartbreak Hotel
 * 2)  Johnny B. Goode
 * 3)  Kind of Blue
 * 4)  Like a Rolling Stone
 * 5)  Rhapsody in Blue
 * 6)  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
 * 7)  Thriller (Michael Jackson album)

Basic concepts

 * 1)  Performing arts (Level 2)
 * 2)  Audience
 * 3)  Costume
 * 4)  Stage

Forms

 * 1)  Acrobatics
 * 2)  Burlesque
 * 3)  Circus
 * 4)  Clown
 * 5)  Magic (illusion)
 * 6)  Mime artist
 * 7)  Performance art
 * 8)  Performance poetry
 * 9)  Puppetry

Dance

 * 1)  Dance (Level 3)
 * 2)  Choreography
 * 3)  Ballet
 * 4)  Ballroom dance
 * 5)  Bolero
 * 6)  Tango
 * 7)  Waltz
 * 8)  Belly dance
 * 9)  Bharatanatyam
 * 10)  Flamenco
 * 11)  Folk dance
 * 12)  Hip hop dance
 * 13)  Jazz dance
 * 14)  Modern dance

Theatre

 * 1)  Theatre (Level 3)
 * 2)  Acting
 * 3)  Stagecraft
 * 4)  Comedy
 * 5)  Commedia dell'arte
 * 6)  Improvisational theatre
 * 7)  Joke
 * 8)  Parody
 * 9)  Stand-up comedy
 * 10)  Drama
 * 11)  Tragedy
 * 12)  Broadway theatre
 * 13)  West End theatre
 * 14)  Kabuki
 * 15)  Musical theatre
 * 16)  Noh
 * 17)  Peking opera
 * 18)  Theatre of ancient Greece

Visual arts

 * For photographic technology, see: Technology: Optical technology.

Pre-modern art

 * 1)  Academic art
 * 2)   Ancient Greek art
 * 3)   Baroque
 * 4)  Classicism
 * 5)  Dutch Golden Age painting
 * 6)  Empire style
 * 7)  Gothic art
 * 8)  Hellenistic art
 * 9)  Mannerism
 * 10)  Prehistoric art (Level 3)
 * 11)  Cave painting
 * 12)  Rock art
 * 13)  Renaissance art
 * 14)  Rococo
 * 15)  Roman art
 * 16)  Romanesque art

Modern art

 * 1)  Modern art
 * 2)  Abstract art (Level 3)
 * 3)  Abstract expressionism
 * 4)  Art Deco
 * 5)  Art Nouveau
 * 6)  Arts and Crafts movement
 * 7)  Avant-garde
 * 8)  Cubism
 * 9)   Dada
 * 10)  Expressionism
 * 11)  Futurism
 * 12)  Impressionism
 * 13)  Modernism (Level 3)
 * 14)  Neoclassicism
 * 15)  Post-Impressionism
 * 16)  Postmodernism
 * 17)  Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * 18)  Realism (Level 3)
 * 19)  Romanticism (Level 3)
 * 20)  Surrealism
 * 21)  Symbolism

Contemporary art

 * 1)  Contemporary art
 * 2)  Conceptual art
 * 3)  Land art
 * 4)  Minimalism
 * 5)  Outsider art
 * 6)  Pop art

Non-Western art traditions

 * 1)  African art
 * 2)  Chinese art
 * 3)  Indian art
 * 4)  Islamic art
 * 5)  Japanese art
 * 6)  Ukiyo-e
 * 7)  Persian art
 * 8)  Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Concepts and forms

 * 1)  Visual arts (Level 2)
 * 2)  Art criticism
 * 3)  Calligraphy
 * 4)  Ceramic art
 * 5)  Collage
 * 6)  Comics (Level 3)
 * 7)  Manga
 * 8)  Decorative arts
 * 9)  Drawing (Level 3)
 * 10)  Fashion (Level 3)
 * 11)  Folk art
 * 12)   Graffiti
 * 13)  Handicraft
 * 14)  Illustration
 * 15)  Mosaic
 * 16)  Mural
 * 17)  Optical illusion
 * 18)  Origami
 * 19)  Painting (Level 3)
 * 20)  Landscape painting
 * 21)  Oil painting
 * 22)  Watercolor painting
 * 23)  Perspective (graphical)
 * 24)  Portrait
 * 25)  Printmaking
 * 26)  Engraving
 * 27)  Religious art
 * 28)   Sculpture (Level 3)
 * 29)  Taxidermy
 * 30)  Textile arts
 * 31)  Wood carving

Painting

 * 1)  A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
 * 2)  Along the River During the Qingming Festival
 * 3)  Arnolfini Portrait
 * 4)  The Birth of Venus
 * 5)   Campbell's Soup Cans
 * 6)  Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
 * 7)  The Garden of Earthly Delights
 * 8)  Guernica
 * 9)   The Last Supper
 * 10)  Las Meninas
 * 11)   Mona Lisa
 * 12)  The Night Watch
 * 13)  The Persistence of Memory
 * 14)  The Scream
 * 15)   Sistine Chapel
 * 16)  The Starry Night
 * 17)  Water Lilies

Sculpture

 * 1)  David
 * 2)  Fountain
 * 3)  Olmec colossal heads
 * 4)  Pietà
 * 5)  Terracotta Army
 * 6)  The Thinker
 * 7)  Venus de Milo
 * 8)  Venus of Willendorf

Other media

 * 1)  Bayeux Tapestry
 * 2)  Book of Kells
 * 3)  The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Design

 * 1)  Design (Level 3)
 * 2)  Graphic design
 * 3)  Typography
 * 4)  Interior design
 * 5)  Industrial design
 * 6)  Web design

Digital art

 * 1)  Digital art
 * 2)  Computer graphics

Filmmaking: General

 * 1)   Film (Level 3)
 * 2)  Animation (Level 3)
 * 3)  Anime
 * 4)   Silent film
 * 5)  Filmmaking
 * 6)  Cinematography
 * 7)  Special effect
 * 8)  Studio system

Cinema by country

 * 1)  Cinema of the United States
 * 2)  Cinema of France
 * 3)  Cinema of India
 * 4)  Hindi cinema
 * 5)  Cinema of Japan
 * 6)  Cinema of China
 * 7)  Cinema of the Soviet Union
 * 8)  Cinema of Nigeria

Film festival and awards

 * 1)  Film festival
 * 2)  Cannes Film Festival
 * 3)  Academy Awards

Animation

 * 1)  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 * 2)  Toy Story

Art film

 * 1)  Mirror

Comedy

 * 1)  City Lights
 * 2)  Dr. Strangelove

Documentary

 * 1)   Triumph of the Will

Drama film

 * 1)  8½
 * 2)  Bicycle Thieves
 * 3)  Breathless
 * 4)  Children of Paradise
 * 5)  Citizen Kane
 * 6)  The Godfather
 * 7)  L'Atalante
 * 8)  La dolce vita
 * 9)  The Rules of the Game
 * 10)  Tokyo Story

Epic/Historical

 * 1)  The Apu Trilogy
 * 2)  Battleship Potemkin
 * 3)  The Birth of a Nation
 * 4)  Lawrence of Arabia
 * 5)  Seven Samurai
 * 6)  The Seventh Seal

Horror/Thriller

 * 1)  Psycho
 * 2)  Vertigo

Musical

 * 1)  The Jazz Singer
 * 2)  Singin' in the Rain
 * 3)  The Sound of Music

Romance film

 * 1)  Casablanca
 * 2)  Gone With the Wind

Science fiction/Fantasy

 * 1)  2001: A Space Odyssey
 * 2)   Metropolis
 * 3)   Star Wars
 * 4)  The Wizard of Oz

Western

 * 1)  Stagecoach

Fictional and legendary characters

 * For mythological and Biblical characters, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.

Western folklore

 * 1)  King Arthur
 * 2)  Baba Yaga
 * 3)  Faust
 * 4)   Robin Hood
 * 5)  Santa Claus

Eastern folklore

 * 1)  Hua Mulan

Literature and drama

 * 1)  James Bond
 * 2)  Sherlock Holmes
 * 3)  Peter Pan
 * 4)  Tarzan
 * 5)  Winnie-the-Pooh

Film, television, and games

 * 1)  Mickey Mouse
 * 2)  Donald Duck
 * 3)   Mario

Superheroes

 * 1)  Superhero
 * 2)   Superman
 * 3)   Batman
 * 4)  Wonder Woman
 * 5)  Spider-Man
 * 6)  Thor (Marvel Comics)