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Possible categories of art (English)

Possible Categories of “schöne Künste” (German)

 

 

Possible categories of art (English)

 

Fine arts /visual arts

also: plastic arts

 

Two dimensional:

Painting

Drawing

Printmaking

Photography

Graphic design

Illustration

 

Three dimensional:

Sculpture

Ceramics

 

Four dimensional:

Film

Video

Performance

 

Sometimes in addition:

Theater, including musical theater and film

Dance

Architecture

 

Further in addition:

Conceptual art

Computer art

 

Performing arts

 

Theater, including pantomime

Dance

Music

Opera

Circus art

 

Acrobatics; Martial arts

busking (street performing)

Comedy, stand-up comedy

Magic, Juggling

Marching arts

 

 

Applied art

 

Industrial design

Graphic design

Fashion design

Interior design

Decorative art

Functional art

 

Sometimes in addition:

architecture

photography

 

Culinary arts

 

 

Craftwork/ handicraft

 

Textiles, leather, fibers

Paper, canvas

Wood, Metals

Ceramics, glass, enamel

Jewels, ivory

 

Decorative Arts

 

Ceramics

Furniture

Interior Design

Architecture

 

Sometimes in addition:

Calligraphy

 

Language arts

 

Language, incl. Linguistics

Literatur

Rhetoric

 

 

 

 

Possible Categories of “schöne Künste” (German)

 

Bildende Kunst (visuell gestaltend)

(„Kunst“ im engeren Sinne)

 

Malerei, inkl. Aquarell

Grafik

Bildhauerei (Plastik):

Relief, Büste, Skulptur, Standbild, Bauplastik

Baukunst (Architektur)

 

auch: Photographie

 

Gartenkunst, Landschaftsarchitektur

 

dazu:

Angewandte Kunst, Gebrauchskunst

dekorative Kunst

Kunstgewerbe

auch: Ornamentik

 

Darstellende Kunst/ mimische Künste

 

Theater, including:

Sprechtheater: Schauspiel

Musiktheater: Oper, Operette, Musical

Tanztheater: Ballett, Revue

 

ferner:

Figurentheater, Kleinkunst, Pantomime

Eiskunstlauf

 

Medienkunst

Film

Tonkunst (Konzert, Hörspiel)

Computerkunst

 

Performance

Klangkunst

Tönende Künste

 

Literatur

(Wortkunst; Poesie)

(Dichtung; schöne Literatur; Belletristik)

 

Epik, Lyrik, Drama

Roman, Novelle, Kurzgeschichte

Musik

(Tonkunst)

 

(ebenfalls:) Oper

Kammermusik, Lied

 

 

 

see also:

Techne - Episteme - Phronesis - Nous - Sophia

Teil II: Artes liberales und Artes mechanicae

 

David Novitz: The boundaries of art. Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1992.

 



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