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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