The six traditional arts proposed by Giotto Canudu

The six traditional arts proposed by Giotto Canudo are architecture, music, art, sculpture, poetry and dance.

The theory that cinema is the "Seventh Art" was put forward by an Italian, Giotto Canudo, who in 1911 published a famous treatise entitled "Manifesto of the Seventh Art", which declared for the first time in the history of world cinema that cinema is an art, a comprehensive architecture, music, painting, sculpture, poetry and dance. Since then, the term "seventh art" has become synonymous with movie art.

Ricciotto Canudo (January 2, 1877 - 1923) was an early Italian film theorist who lived in France for a long time. He regarded cinema as a "plastic art in motion". He referred to cinema as the "7th Art", a term that has been used to this day. In one of his manifestos, The Birth of the Sixth Art (later changed from the Sixth Art to the Seventh Art), he claimed that cinema had become a new kind of art, and he classified classical art into temporal and spatial art.