Draft:Outline of the arts

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

The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing, and being in an extensive range of media. Both dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life have developed into stylized and intricate forms. This is achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training, or theorizing within a particular tradition, 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?

The arts can be described as all of the following:

together they form a vast subdivision of culture –

The arts, by type

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.
Carving –
- Wood carving –
- Leaf 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.