What are the seven categories of art in the world?

The seven major art categories in the world are: literature, drama, dance, music, fine arts, architecture and film (film and television).

1, drama

Drama refers to the stage performance art that achieves narrative purpose in the form of language, action, dance, music and puppet. The concept of drama in literature refers to the script created for drama performance, that is, the script.

There are various forms of theatrical performances, including drama, opera, ballet, musical, puppet show and so on. Drama is a comprehensive art in which actors play roles and perform stories in public on the stage.

There are many hypotheses about the origin of drama.

There are two mainstream views: one is the witchcraft ceremony of primitive religion. For example, in ancient China, the words "witch", "dance" and "martial arts" have the same origin, which may be a general term for witchcraft activities praying for victory in battle, that is, the primitive form of drama. The other is an impromptu song and dance performance when working or celebrating the harvest. This statement is mainly based on ancient Greek drama, and it is believed that it originated from Dionysian sacrifice.

2. Literature

Literature is a language art and an aesthetic ideology in discourse. Poetry, prose, novel, drama, fable and fairy tale are all important literary forms.

Literature expresses inner feelings in different forms, that is, genres, and reproduces social life in a certain period and region. As a discipline, literature includes China language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication.

Literature belongs to one of the humanities, and keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics at the top of the social structure. It originated from human thinking activities. Oral literature first appeared, usually combined with music to form lyric poems that can be sung. The earliest written documents are China's The Book of Songs, Indian Ramayana and ancient Greek Ilion Ji.

China's works written in words in the pre-Qin period were collectively referred to as literature, and literary works were listed separately only after Wei and Jin Dynasties. The classification of European traditional literature theory divides literature into three categories: poetry, prose and drama. Modern literature is usually divided into four categories: poetry, novel, prose and drama.

3. Art

Art: refers to the art that occupies a certain plane or space and has visibility, which is called art.

It is divided into many categories, generally including painting, sculpture, design and architecture. Some modern scholars also classify others as main categories, such as calligraphy and photography.

The word "art" first appeared in Europe in the17th century, and some people think it officially appeared in the middle of18th century. In modern Japan, Chinese characters were translated freely, introduced to China around the May 4th Movement, and began to be widely used.

Idea: let art integrate into life, into thinking, into soul, and live in the present.

4. Architecture

Architectural art refers to the use of the unique artistic language of architectural art, in accordance with the law of beauty, so that the architectural image has cultural and aesthetic value, symbolic and formal beauty, reflecting nationality and sense of the times.

According to its functional characteristics, architectural art can be divided into memorial buildings, palaces and tombs, religious buildings, residential buildings, garden buildings and production buildings. Generally speaking, architectural art, like arts and crafts, is an art combining practicality and aesthetics.

The essence of architecture is a living place built by human beings for living and activities, so practicality is the primary function of architecture; Only with the development of human practice and the progress of material technology, architecture has more and more aesthetic value.

5. Movies (movies)

A kind of comprehensive art, in which the photographed images are continuously projected on the screen with strong light to look like real moving images.

When people talk about the eight great arts, they often want to introduce new art categories. For example, some people call game design the ninth art.

Most theories about the Eight Great Arts focus on the origin of movies, that is, how movies changed from commercial behavior to the eighth of the Eight Great Arts. There is a saying that TV plays have aggregated the characteristics of the first seven arts, so they have become the eighth art.

Among the seventh art proposed by Giotto Canudu, film is called the "seventh art", which combines six arts: architecture, music, painting, sculpture, poetry and dance. Usually, the seventh art is synonymous with film art.

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